I’m thinking about thinking about thought, but I haven’t thought it through. 🧠🧠

Started reading: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚

What do you call an anthropomorphic locomotive that loves Ska?
Thomas The Skank Engine 🥁

The improv team I play in, The Cat’s Cradle Ensemble, will be performing the Utica Uptown Improv festival October 6th. The whole festival will be a blast, so come out if you’re in the area! www.utcany.org/tickets

Colored pencil doodle looking off the page.

Went on the Chicago architecture tour yesterday and had a blast. I now know that a key aspect of post modern architecture is that the building recognizes its context. For example, a lot of the buildings along the Chicago River have wavy details that evoke the water.

Finished reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚I ate this up. Compelling on a subcutaneous level.

You know what? Chicken butt.

I converted my self hosted blog to Micro.blog hosting. The URL structure here is different than my old blog, but the service was supposed to automatically create redirects.

For whatever reason, it didn’t.

I can manually add them, but only one at a time. 1,208 to go. At 1 min per, that’s ~20 hours 😩

An accurate accounting of Elon Musk. Looking forward to his final self defeat overbuy so we can talk about the next rent seeking creep.

How many decades should you keep socks? Asking for a friend. Who will tell me. Because I’m the one who keeps their socks through six presidencies. 🧦 ♾️

Every once in a while, the phrase “too much light makes the baby go blind” pops into my head. It was the subtitle to an old New York Neofuturists show, but I blame big light.

Corey Doctorow on web scraping and corporate power.

Facial recognition companies say, “You can’t use copyright to ban scraping without creating a lot of collateral damage.” They’re right too – but what they don’t say is, “On the other hand, a privacy law would put us out of business and leave all the good scraping intact.”

Bad actors don’t tell you their weakness. Thankfully, weakness exist. Exploiting them helps everyone else.

Just realized the only correct response to being messaged “ping” is “pong”.

Model train dioramas are cool. 🚂

Reminder that while USB-C is a welcome universal plug, the rest of the situation is, and will remain, a mess.

Unity exec tells Ars he’s on a mission to earn back developer trust | Ars Technica

“There was a lot more [feedback than we expected] for sure… I think that feedback has made us better, even though it has sometimes been difficult.”

Execs always trot out the “we didn’t realize” line. Frankly, that says they are either disingenuous or impossibly stupid. Either way, not trustworthy.

In the LaGuardia airport they make you walk through a gift shop to get to the gates. For sale: a Turtles in Time arcade cabinet.

Who is making this kind of floor space decision in an airport?

A taste of las Vegas in LaGuardia.

✈️ Flying out to Chicago today. It will be my first time there. I’m planning on seeing some improv and eating a sausage. Any other recommendations?

With great powder comes great rash-squash-ability.

– Uncle Ben “Gold Bond” Parker

My friend Jon gifted me the classics. 🍿

New York style trend update: cop mustache’s for men and expensive mullets for women.

Started reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚