I am the proud owner of this:
Much to my wife’s relief, I did not get the one formally owned by Max Schlossberg for a mere 32k.
Random thoughts from a random technology guy
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Amy Sherald 2
Regarding this post, via Kottke…
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Betrayed
From Germany’s most influential weekly.
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
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Trump v Selzer
I can’t improve on this comment. Anyone who quotes The Princess Bride is solid in my book.
FIRE (the free-speech organization) has taken on the defense of J. Ann Selzer, the Des Moines Register pollster who's being frivolously sued by Donald Trump.And while FIRE is doing the case pro bono, I feel like we should all pay them $550 an hour just for this one beautiful paragraph.
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) 2025-02-21T18:54:27.376Z -
Am I Blue?
Interesting site that tests where your personal boundary between blue and green is:
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A Boy and his Dog
I was away for a bit so when I got back the first thing I did was take Charlie for a nice walk in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The sun was playing interesting shadow games.
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The Dreaded Cone
Charlie just got neutered, so he’s stuck with the cone for two weeks. He’s not a fan…
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Waymo Way Easy
What does a tech guy have to try in San Fran? A Waymo taxi of course. You need the app, but after that it’s like Uber or Lyft.
The car pulls up.
When you get in, you have to actually click a button on the car screen or your app to start the ride. Then the car pulls out and you get a safety talk.
After that, it’s pretty normal.
It drove fine. A bus started to drift into our lane and the Waymo honked at it. Just a regular drive.
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Amy Sherald
I’m in Oakland visiting my brother in the hospital, but in the morning he gets tested, cleaned, poked and prodded. (“injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected”, if you get the reference). Anyway, I can’t really go visit before 2 PM, so with a morning to kill (and a rainy morning at that) I set off for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
It seemed like a good way to spend a rainy morning, and it turns out they are doing an Amy Sherald exhibit. If you don’t know the name, she did the official portrait of Michelle Obama.
The museum overall was very good and this exhibit was wonderful.
And of course…
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Three Brothers (Part 2)
We all looked better in the picture from the earlier post, but at least we are back together again.
Me, Jim and Tom Jim seems to be doing well, he’s talking and walking. The doctors believe they got all the cancer. There’s no specific timeline, he’s just healing right now.
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