If you’re missing the shrubs from XOXO Fest, I have made something that tastes pretty similar to the Remember drink from 2024:

• 2 pounds organic lemons (about 7 lemons), sliced or quartered
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 cups water, plus more to dilute to taste
• A teabag of Traditional Medicinals Organic Hibiscus Tea

The last one is important. A lot of hibiscus tea out there has blueberries/stevia/other things in it. You want pure hibiscus.

• Squeeze the lemons.
• Pour in the water and the sugar and mix.
• Put the teabag in and let it sit overnight.

Enjoy!

Oceansize is my favorite band of all time. Sadly, they broke up years before I could have ever imagined being able to afford to see them live.

The lead singer of Oceansize was Mike Vennart. One of the reasons that he started Oceansize was because he was inspired by his favorite band of all time, Cardiacs. Partially based on the success of I Oceansize, and partially because Tim Smith, lead singer and main songwriter of Cardiacs was such a good guy, Mike and Tim became friends.

Sadly, Tim passed away a few years ago.

Recently, the rest of the band decided to put out an album with the last songs that Tim had been working on, and they asked Mike to become their new lead singer. What an incredible journey for Mike. I am so happy for him!

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You should also definitely, definitely listen to Oceansize.

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It is funny to me that the way I found out about the AWS outage is that I wrote code all weekend & was deploying it. The final step was to invalidate the file in Cloudfront so that it will serve the new JS and hahaha nope, can’t log into AWS.

Looks like the best Pacific Rim game is at the end of Gears Of War 4 where you pilot a giant robot and lay waste to huge enemies

Happy September 21st to all who celebrate.

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It is so difficult to keep your heart soft in a world that wants to harden it more every day. I used to think it was worth doing. Now I’m not so sure

is that you have to be at a point in your life where you’re ready for each one. I listened to the Mother album in 2022 but wasn’t ready to really hear it until 2024, when I listened to it so many times that they were my top artist in terms of plays.

When you are ready for a Highasakite album, things click into place so powerfully that you can almost hear an audible click.

Just listened to their new album. I’m not ready for it yet.

today I discovered that a great way to get someone to come to the hostess stand at a restaurant that you’ve been waiting at for way too long is to call the restaurant. that will make the phone that is 1 foot away from you start ringing and magically someone will show up

Based on my experience and a lot of Reddit threads, I’m beginning to think that Sony released a bad batch of PS5s in early 2024 that are all failing 4-6 months out of warranty. Not red ring of death failure numbers, but close. They’re charging $229 to “repair or replace” and then they just silently replace them all with more recent revisions because they’re not worth repairing. I never buy the launch editions of consoles. I wait until they release the Slim or whatever the equivalent is. I still got burned.

I think that odd-numbered Playstation generations are just not great, with the exception of the PS1. PS2: Great. PS3? Trash. PS4? Rock solid. I have two. PS5? Trash. The crazier the external design looks, the worse the internal parts are. The PS6 will probably be incredible and basically look like a brick.

Him: That’ll be $200 Me: How about $25-$30 Him: Nah man, can’t go less than $200, my costs are too high Me: You are aware thet everyone else is selling for $25-$30? Thanks but I will have to pass. Good luck with everything! …. a month later: Him: I’m running a sale! How about $50? Me: Sold!

My PS5 died a year and a half after I bought it, and Sony wants $229 (almost half of what I initially paid) to fix/replace it? And according to Reddit, this is a very common thing?

I guess this is where PS5 sales come from now? I miss the days when the Xbox had the red ring of death and Microsoft replaced them years after the fact. Clearly this is premature hardware failure due to Sony screwing something up when building these.

No matter how successful I am in my life, I will never feel more rich than the night in my 30s when my friends and I put $20 bills in the change machine, made it absolutely rain quarters and finally beat the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game that we never had enough tokens for when we were growing up

It’s pretty wild how many ways you can lose a house in a real estate bidding competition. I’m learning lots of lessons these days.

ever write a review of a restaurant that is so long and blistering that your local yelp representative sends you a message asking if you want to become a yelp elite

If you find yourself in the Denver area and you love Italian food, get yourself to Luca. It’s phenomenal. We didn’t have a bad bite there, and the service was great.

Still thinking about Midnight Mass, years later. That miniseries RIPS.

Ever drop your AirPods case in a rainy parking lot and watch in horror as they slide under your car because you know that every single time you drop your AirPods case, it opens and the AirPods go flying in both directions?

But they stop sliding where it’s easy for you to grab them, and you breathe a sigh of relief. The case even managed to stay closed!

Half an hour later, you open your case to get one of your AirPods out and realize that neither one is in the case. They definitely did explode out somewhere into a parking lot puddle, and then the case dutifully closed itself back up.

Cool cool cool cool

I did have a good laugh though!

At what point does the “Prove you’re a human” checkbox turn into a fingerprick test

Are you ever traveling and want to keep your iPhone in Low Power Mode so that your battery lasts as long as possible, but every time you charge your phone, it turns off? I wrote a Shortcut that turns it back on immediately, but only if you aren’t in your home city: http://maxbattery.net

The best part about having Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime record my outgoing voicemail message is getting to hear people caught off guard and still laughing for a few seconds when they try to leave me a one in return

TFW you take a Lyft into a small town but by the time you’re done there are no Lyfts or Ubers that want to take you back (literally none) so you end up hitching a ride with the one guy in that entire town who is willing to take people back to the larger town and isn’t on any apps and takes cash

Lesson learned. Renting a car next time!

I highly recommend flying your best friend in to meet you and your partner at a theme park for the weekend if you can swing it. 1000/10 would do again.

Sometimes they tell you a price and you tell them a price that is $2300 less and they say “ok”

Ever check in to a flight with a bag so heavy that the airline employee asks you to jump behind the counter and put it on the luggage belt for her? 😅