I’m not cursing, I swear (ha). It’s just an abbreviation of the name of an event in which I took part today... BITCHSTERDAM!!!

I haven’t posted since May 17. We went on vacation on the 18th out to San Francisco, Berkeley, and Hollywood and just got back today.

As a diehard Gravity Falls fan, I wholly approve of the creativity, time, and money spent creating this musical masterpiece.

I just received an email from Apple that the cost for an annual subscription to Apple TV+ is going to increase from $49.99 to $69.

We have our Internet back!!!

It’s amazing these days the level of disarray your life delves to when you lose that oh-so-precious connection to the internet.

Don’t you just hate when you swore that you posted everyday and then you go back just to verify because you’re paranoid and a completist like that only to discover you missed a day on which you’re certain you wrote something but you cannot find it for the life of you?

Whoever created the .webp image format needs to be shot and hung by… whatever they have available to be hung from painfully.

While I truly wish there was much more detail to this video -- there are way too many effectively pre-fab elements just lowered into place without us being able to see them being made as well -- it's still a ridiculously interesting opportunity to watch a ridiculously large cruise ship being built in stop motion (I also wish there was a timer on it so you can see how many days, weeks, months, years, elapse).

reCAPTCHAs -- yanno, those annoying things where you have to verify you're a human being by picking out pictures of street lights or mountains that don't work half the time and you have to do a second... or a third... or a fourth... just to make a form send from a webpage -- are dumb.

Oh yeah, let’s just click on this link, shall we?

I was looking up an obituary from my friend Mike who died in 1993 when I came across an obituary lookup site. Their search struck me as interesting…

Katie found this Instagrammer named Brian Moller (BMothePrince) whose one-man multigenerational approach to culture is just too spot-on to be ignored.

Turns out Google Bard will write blog posts for you.

I just recently looked it up online to see if there is a way to hide orders on Amazon. As Nathan has recently discovered how to access our purchase history in the iOS app, this has become necessary for future gift purchases for him.

Hey Bard, can you write my next year’s worth of blog posts?

Had a good giggle this morning while reading an article about the lack of online support for Donald Trump's calls for what amounts to a revolution if he is arrested for his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. 

This is really crazy to me to think that someone put the work into charting all this, but this guy Shri Kapaldi took the time to set up a visualization of the 2,309 words that make up the pool from which the word game Wordle draws its daily challenges. Here's a snippet of it. To see it all, click the link above.

I absolutely love low tech solutions to high tech problems. Like parents who want their kids to pay more attention to what's going on around them. For that, here's one possibility...

NFT avatars on Twitter? You have got to be kidding me! This is Elon Musk's newest way to raise Twitter from the dead? 

Remember back in September when I whined like a baby about my 43-game Waffle win streak coming to an end? Well imagine my disdain now that my current 116-game streak came crashing to an end by a mere single play.

One of the coolest things about toy photography is trying to make do without having too much in the way of sets or dioramas or whatnot. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to scour the web for hi-res photography that can be used on the background of your computer behind the subject of your photo.

These videos of nine-year-old Maya Neelakantan shredding to both riffs and solos by TOOL guitarist Adam Jones as well as a video of her receiving a signed custom Gibson Les Paul from Jones himself just makes me so happy.

Do you miss Macro Monday?

Nathan has learned about Rickrolling.

Everyone keeps saying that photography on Instagram is dead and that videos made using Reels within IG is the only way to get noticed. I’m testing this theory by posting an original photo and a slightly modified version of the same photo as a reel just to see what happens.

If after all the years of badmouthing by developers and QA…

If after being told for 15 years that it is non-standard compliant…

Aye yi yi.

At first, I just felt a little lazy and lapsed on posting a couple times last week. Then it became an issue where I couldn't post even though I wanted to because my blogging company was switching data centers and the prep and actual move caused all kinds of havoc with posting and access and... blech.

How well do you know your horror movies by their faces of terror?

I KNEW IT!!!

NOOOOOOO!!!

My 43-game win streak on Waffle has come to an end!!

I've been playing fantasy sports online since 2001. I've played using ESPN, Yahoo, and several other services. I've played with friends, relatives, coworkers, and even in random public leagues run by the services I listed previously.

I am but a simple man. I have simple likes. And simple things make me happy. This is the way.

I was perusing the r/starwarsblackseries subreddit when I saw this unfortunate photo of a poorly molded Clone Commander Cody and the original poster asking for advice on how to fix it.

On Saturday, April 30, I got catfished over on my @yonduonterra Instagram account. A guy I thought I knew asked for help with something and, in the process of helping him avoid a scam, I fell victim to one.

Per Wikipedia... Scam baiting (or scambaiting) is a form of internet vigilantism primarily used towards advance-fee fraud, IRS impersonation scam, technical support scams, pension scams, and consumer financial fraud.