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Tuesday, February 03, 2026

seen during today's walk

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recent snow—the things you miss when you don't go out for a while

I think he's done this rug before

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I'm pretty sure this channel includes a lot of fakery. The guy reuses previous rugs, and he pre-dirties most of the rugs he cleans (thou...

VFX guys on monsters, etc.

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steeping myself in history

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My buddy Mike would be proud of me. I'm not normally a huge fan of history. In fact, when I was a teen, I used to hate the subject: a bu...

for a very special cheat day, perhaps

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I'm very tempted to make this.

Amaury strikes again

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Monday, February 02, 2026

"Doomsday" news

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How many of you are even interested? Frankly, I'm not. I can hear some Karen screeching as she looks at the video's thumbnail: W...

"Groundhog Day": review and meditation

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L to R: Bill Murray as Phil and Stephen Tobolowsky as Ned "The Head" Ryerson [ WARNING: spoilers for a 1993 movie. ] GROUNDHOG DAY...
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pole dancers are versatile

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She doesn't strike me as having the face of a pole dancer. Not naughty enough.

fascinating but hard for my small brain to understand

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I do not have an engineer's brain.

chili!

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Which in the UK is spelled chilli.

trim it down

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Sunday, February 01, 2026

when the dealership deems a trade-in "uncleanable"

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It just takes patience and fortitude, my son.

ululate!

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Canadian-American comic actress Catherine O'Hara just died at the age of 71. She was apparently found at home, not breathing. As of righ...

the death of Piggy

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Happy February

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My buddy Mike, when he had a blog, used to be in the habit of posting "Rabbit!" on the first of every month in the spirit of an ol...

new types of melee weapons

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What if you thought in a more science-fictiony vein about weapons that function well in zero gee and in high gee?

guess the accent

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When I lived in French-speaking Europe, I used to be pretty good at guessing what general region a French-speaker came from—the northwest, t...

after hours of wrestling

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I hate MS Word. When you're dealing with documents larger than, oh, ten pages, Word gets unruly. You make changes in one part of the doc...
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is it the ultimate sin?

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I don't normally mind pineapple on pizza, but the local Papa John's does a terrible job with it. Near the old place I used to work a...
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meaty budae-jjigae

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Inspired by my buddy Mike's son, who had made a ramyeon bowl for his dad, I decided to go whole-hog and make some vulgar budae-jjigae ....
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

chocolatiers versus chocolate

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I came away from this with cravings.

the Amazon hard copy of the 2026 edition of Think Like a Teacher

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The Amazon hard copy of my book arrived at the lobby of my building yesterday, and I picked it up just a few minutes ago. Click on the pics ...

we're gonna see a lot more of this nonsense

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And one day, the cops aren't going to be so tolerant.

last day of January

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As always, it's hard to believe we're already done with the first month of the new year. I hope January went well for you. For me, i...

retrenchment

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A couple weeks back, I cancelled my Shopify site. There are already platforms on which to sell art and other items, ranging from eBay to Ets...

as the old joke goes

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Gee! Ah'm a tree!

talkin' Rocky and "Project Hail Mary"

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A lot of people like Rocky's creature design, but I'm not a fan. They could've made him more organic-looking and less Muppety. ...

Chef Andy talks saving money on steak

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Friday, January 30, 2026

a bunch of "Stranger Things" Pitch Meetings

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I never saw a single episode.

dead-tree books—the unboxing

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I need to read through these to make sure they're okay, but at this point, they're all printed out, so they'd better be okay. R...
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Brian does pan sauces

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When he was here in 2024, my buddy Mike made a nice steak pan sauce.

Cry Havoc and Gone Tomorrow: a two-fer review

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Former Navy SEAL sniper Jack Carr is the author of the Terminal List series of novels, the first book of which got made into a successful A...

blasting God's little creatures

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come on, she's just a typically racist Asian

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Max Miller on "Indian pudding"

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another question set done

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For my upcoming app ( Do You Deserve to Vote? ), I've done yet another question set, this time for the "Can You Think Logically?...
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Thursday, January 29, 2026

another "best-ever fried chicken" recipe

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With so many best s out there, it's hard to know where to turn.

Matt Walsh demystifies the reason for movies' failure

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The problem isn't wokeness, Walsh says.

back and forth

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I'm currently going back and forth with System Pro, the print shop near Seoul National University. The lady keeps texting about how this...
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the bots are taking a day off

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With my overinflated stats, I'm normally at about 4,000 visits by this point in the day, but I currently have a little over 800 visits. ...

this shouldn't be hard, right?

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Simple logic problem: 5C. For breakfast, Jack hates all cereal and muffins but likes all toast and doughnuts. Lorna hates all toast, doughnu...
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allez, Amaury!

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The man is a miracle-worker.

failing America's kids and the death of US public education

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Headline : Education’s Great Betrayal: How We Failed America’s Children and Wasted Billions on Empty Promises Test scores are plummeting, le...

more pressure-washing ASMR

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massacre dans le corridor

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Hallway scenes in Star Wars films and shows have apparently become a thing now. Vader got such a scene. So did Luke. And I think Ben Kenob...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

this is from last November, sure, but...

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From just before last (US, not Canadian) Thanksgiving:

Cry Havoc and Gone Tomorrow

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I recently finished Jack Carr's novel Cry Havoc , which takes place in 1968 in the era of the Tet Offensive.  The novel focuses on Tom R...

"what is 18 divided by 3?"

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You watch enough of these depressing videos, and you become convinced it really is stupidity you're seeing. (Ignore the AI girl in the ...
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