Richard’s Rule #5: If a BBQ place has a closing time that isn’t “until we sell out”, it’s probably trash.

Here is a photo of me trying to figure out why everyone is talking about MCP all of a sudden

TFW your database starts blowing up and when you get to the bottom of it, you realize that one of the queries you’ve been running in your app for over a decade could have been 100x faster if you used find_by instead of find

It turns out that Gmail breaks pretty dramatically if you try to delete 142,000 promotional emails for your mom at the same time.

I’m so glad that Heavyweight survived being bought by Spotify and came out on the other side. It’s one of my favorite podcasts and it’s coming back! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

If you make a recipe and have leftover fresh herbs, put them in your salads.

Last night I threw a slice of roast beef to my dog Waffles. She flinched as it hurtled through the air toward her, and sort of bowed, so it landed on her back and stayed there. Then I got to watch her smell it, but not be able to locate it for a good 30 seconds. Too funny!

I was recently introduced to the wonder that is gaffer tape. It holds as strongly as duct tape, but comes off cleanly. Relatedly: if you have a broken, fancy trunk with an electronic latch (so you can’t use the old bungee cord through the latch trick) and it won’t get fixed for a week, gaffer tape holds your trunk closed very well in the meantime.

Recently, I installed a real blast from the past on my Steam Deck… Unreal Tournament 2004. I put so many hours into that game during my college years, and it still slaps. I was a broke college student when it came out, and I could barely afford the $99 video card that I installed in my computer to play games. So I never turned the graphics settings up very high. 20 years later, the Steam Deck can handle the highest level of every graphics setting with ease. So I went into the menus and started turning everything up as high as it can go. When I turned the last setting up, the game said “HOLY SHIT”

Hahaha! An easter egg that only shows up if you have money to burn (or it’s 20 years later). I love this game.

TFW your water bill is $300 more than usual and you think you have a water leak somewhere but you don’t see anything obvious so you call your plumber because you think that maybe the leak is at your meter but he says there isn’t one and there’s barely any water usage showing at the meter so there isn’t a leak in the house either so then you compare your bills and realize that someone read the meter wrong 2 months ago and said that you had negative water usage of 200 units of water but you didn’t notice because they charge you a minimum fee regardless of usage and the bill was only $7 lower than usual but this month they read it correctly and incorrectly billed you for the 200 unit difference

I just had a SaaS customer support experience that rubbed me in just the wrong way. It was just an email address instead of a support widget. It responded waaaaay too quickly no matter what time of day it was. It tried its best to be helpful but it got things wrong multiple times. It seemed to completely ignore the screenshots and video that I wasted my time creating.

The only reason my problem was solved was that when it gave me the wrong answers it ended up pointing me in the right place to figure it out for myself.

Of course it was an AI support “agent”. I asked it if it was and it confirmed it. A human would have answered my question in an email or two, but this one took 5. Not great.

I recently discovered a Norwegian TV show called Hver gang vi møtes. It’s been making me smile recently. The premise is that musical artists cover songs from other artists, but the artist being covered is also there, at the head of a table and you get to see them react to their song being interpreted by someone else.

This one in particular really gets me. Ramón is so excited that you can feel it through the screen. His song is being covered by Ingrid Helene Håvik from the band Highasakite, which is one of my favorites.

and the song she’s covering:

Shout out to our Alen air purifier for raising the alarm about a sudden rise in VOCs in our kitchen. It allowed me to figure out that a foil lined protein powder packet had fallen onto the charging base of our tea pot warmer and had been melting off and on all night. Yikes.

it feels pretty awesome to send a message to a friend who you haven’t seen in over a decade, asking them to lunch

and they reply very enthusiastically and say “how about tomorrow?!”

“Hey Siri pause”. bloop bloop “That’s done”.

3 seconds go by and the podcast starts right back up again

it turns out that if you want to get more steps in in a day, you just need to walk faster. 😂

And the river flows beneath your skin Like savage horses kept within And all is wasted in the sand Like breaking diamonds with your hand

And the river grows inside of me And the river grows inside of me And the river grows inside of me And the river grows inside of me

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Finally, a car that can safely make it over those NOLA potholes

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An immediate hug from someone you’ve only known on the internet for 15 years, the very first time you see them in person

I only have one vent on HomeKit. It’s named “Vent”. Today I ask Siri to turn off the vent and it asks me which room I want to turn the vent off in. AARGH

This is fairly niche, but If you are trying to decide between Jellyfin and Emby, just go with Emby.

Watched Interstellar in IMAX today. It’s still incredible.

I just learned that in Terminal on the Mac, if you Option click anywhere in the current line that you’re typing, your cursor jumps there. You don’t have to hold down the arrow key until you get where you want to go. You can just jump there. Mind blown.

Imagine Dragons has only ever written one chorus. They do keep changing the lyrics around in each song though.

Know those movie fight scenes when one person is choking out someone else until they die or at least go unconscious?

I’ve always thought that the person being choked should fake their body going limp and then get the jump on the person choking them. Why does no one ever do that?

But tonight I got a better idea. What if the person getting choked taps out by slapping the ground, wrestling style?

The choker lets go of them reflexively, because that’s just what you do when someone taps out.

And then the person getting choked turns the tables on them. That would be hilarious.