Robert
@ewile.bsky.social
Gen X. Rock, SciFi, Fantasy, Wood Working, DIY. May finally actually learn guitar.
Making the most of limited free time.
Making the most of limited free time.
As I learned from making pizza dough, if it's not stretchy it means you didn't need it long enough. Pizza dough should be able to "window" when you stretch a piece and get a thin membrane you can see your fingers through.
Done the same making pretzels. Need to hold shape during the boiling step.
Done the same making pretzels. Need to hold shape during the boiling step.
Well they taste fantastic but we couldn’t get them to stretch like we needed to shape them properly. Guessing I over kneaded the dough. So we have pretzel blobs 😂
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
As I learned from making pizza dough, if it's not stretchy it means you didn't need it long enough. Pizza dough should be able to "window" when you stretch a piece and get a thin membrane you can see your fingers through.
Done the same making pretzels. Need to hold shape during the boiling step.
Done the same making pretzels. Need to hold shape during the boiling step.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame should just rename itself to the Popular Music Hall of Fame at this point.
I know the reasons. The actual museum is a failing business. Doesn't draw enough visitors. They are fighting for cultural relevance and more visitors. Casting a wider bet for attention.
I know the reasons. The actual museum is a failing business. Doesn't draw enough visitors. They are fighting for cultural relevance and more visitors. Casting a wider bet for attention.
January 2, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame should just rename itself to the Popular Music Hall of Fame at this point.
I know the reasons. The actual museum is a failing business. Doesn't draw enough visitors. They are fighting for cultural relevance and more visitors. Casting a wider bet for attention.
I know the reasons. The actual museum is a failing business. Doesn't draw enough visitors. They are fighting for cultural relevance and more visitors. Casting a wider bet for attention.
I'd call it The Replicator and it would make all the most famous recipes from popular chain restaurants that no longer exist.
You've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant
what are you calling it?
"IDIC"
(it's a buffet)
what are you calling it?
"IDIC"
(it's a buffet)
you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant
what are you calling it?
THE READY ROOM
what are you calling it?
THE READY ROOM
December 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I'd call it The Replicator and it would make all the most famous recipes from popular chain restaurants that no longer exist.
Just had one of those moments men wait their whole loves for.
Have a light up Christmas decoration that we haven't put up for years because we lost the plug for it.
Well, turns out an old IBM laptop plug that I was told to throw out years ago works PERFECTLY with the old fiberoptic winter village.
Have a light up Christmas decoration that we haven't put up for years because we lost the plug for it.
Well, turns out an old IBM laptop plug that I was told to throw out years ago works PERFECTLY with the old fiberoptic winter village.
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Just had one of those moments men wait their whole loves for.
Have a light up Christmas decoration that we haven't put up for years because we lost the plug for it.
Well, turns out an old IBM laptop plug that I was told to throw out years ago works PERFECTLY with the old fiberoptic winter village.
Have a light up Christmas decoration that we haven't put up for years because we lost the plug for it.
Well, turns out an old IBM laptop plug that I was told to throw out years ago works PERFECTLY with the old fiberoptic winter village.
That's entirely to allow private military contractors to profit off this.
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
That's entirely to allow private military contractors to profit off this.
This is your reminder that millions of legally owned firearms killed noone yesterday.
December 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is your reminder that millions of legally owned firearms killed noone yesterday.
Don't let them forget that Trump:
Ended the asylum program to bring the Afghan translators to the US.
Set the withdrawal deadline before the election forcing the withdrawal under Biden.
The withdrawal left many translators and other Afghan support personnel stranded
apnews.com/article/nati...
Ended the asylum program to bring the Afghan translators to the US.
Set the withdrawal deadline before the election forcing the withdrawal under Biden.
The withdrawal left many translators and other Afghan support personnel stranded
apnews.com/article/nati...
Trump criticizes the program that brought Afghan refugees to the US who fought the Taliban
The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
apnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Don't let them forget that Trump:
Ended the asylum program to bring the Afghan translators to the US.
Set the withdrawal deadline before the election forcing the withdrawal under Biden.
The withdrawal left many translators and other Afghan support personnel stranded
apnews.com/article/nati...
Ended the asylum program to bring the Afghan translators to the US.
Set the withdrawal deadline before the election forcing the withdrawal under Biden.
The withdrawal left many translators and other Afghan support personnel stranded
apnews.com/article/nati...
If they made a remake of this today, it would be from the perspective of Velda, the middle class, recently divorced mother who's become tough because she had to be. And a rich socialite with no wilderness skills becomes a major disruption to the program, threatening to undo her hard work.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If they made a remake of this today, it would be from the perspective of Velda, the middle class, recently divorced mother who's become tough because she had to be. And a rich socialite with no wilderness skills becomes a major disruption to the program, threatening to undo her hard work.
New low reached. Citizenship ceremonies canceled. So now even following the legal path is being further restricted.
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
Trump administration cancels citizenship ceremonies in Upstate New York, claiming county courts don’t meet legal requirements
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The federal government will no longer allow county courts or state supreme court justices to preside over citizenship ceremonies and has cancelled many swearing-ins…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New low reached. Citizenship ceremonies canceled. So now even following the legal path is being further restricted.
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
Having a Mandela Effect Moment.
Does anyone remember an epilogue to Death Note where Ryuk goes back to the Shinigami realm and meets a new arrival that we slowly realize is Light who has no memory of being human?
Everything I look up says it doesn't exist and the creator says it doesn't exist.
Does anyone remember an epilogue to Death Note where Ryuk goes back to the Shinigami realm and meets a new arrival that we slowly realize is Light who has no memory of being human?
Everything I look up says it doesn't exist and the creator says it doesn't exist.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Having a Mandela Effect Moment.
Does anyone remember an epilogue to Death Note where Ryuk goes back to the Shinigami realm and meets a new arrival that we slowly realize is Light who has no memory of being human?
Everything I look up says it doesn't exist and the creator says it doesn't exist.
Does anyone remember an epilogue to Death Note where Ryuk goes back to the Shinigami realm and meets a new arrival that we slowly realize is Light who has no memory of being human?
Everything I look up says it doesn't exist and the creator says it doesn't exist.
Was just wondering what the overlap is between people who love Dr. Pepper and people who love black licorice.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Was just wondering what the overlap is between people who love Dr. Pepper and people who love black licorice.
Technically, that yeast has had more generations in your lifetime than your family has in all human history.
discovered today that the main mother yeast my mum uses for her breads is older than i am, which is stunning to think about. i have eaten older entities than myself. disconcerting way to start the day
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Technically, that yeast has had more generations in your lifetime than your family has in all human history.
The Fleming Estate rejected the idea that Bond was a code name.
Christopher Lee was the real James Bond. His exploits around WWII were Fleming's inspiration.
That said, there's no real reason a reboot couldn't make it a code name in honor of the original Bond.
Christopher Lee was the real James Bond. His exploits around WWII were Fleming's inspiration.
That said, there's no real reason a reboot couldn't make it a code name in honor of the original Bond.
You either state or heavily imply that James Bond is a name that goes with the 007 assignment, not a one-man identity. I thought that was what we were supposed to assume anyway?
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The Fleming Estate rejected the idea that Bond was a code name.
Christopher Lee was the real James Bond. His exploits around WWII were Fleming's inspiration.
That said, there's no real reason a reboot couldn't make it a code name in honor of the original Bond.
Christopher Lee was the real James Bond. His exploits around WWII were Fleming's inspiration.
That said, there's no real reason a reboot couldn't make it a code name in honor of the original Bond.
I read Godot in highschool lit. Our teacher started the lesson by telling us most people don't like it, but for some reason prisoners love it.
I really should go back and read it with a new perspective.
www.amny.com/entertainmen...
I really should go back and read it with a new perspective.
www.amny.com/entertainmen...
Festival of futility: Beckett’s big fall in New York theater | amNewYork
Is New York ready for a Beckett binge? This fall, the city will be flooded with futility, repetition, and existential dread as three classic Samuel Beckett
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September 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I read Godot in highschool lit. Our teacher started the lesson by telling us most people don't like it, but for some reason prisoners love it.
I really should go back and read it with a new perspective.
www.amny.com/entertainmen...
I really should go back and read it with a new perspective.
www.amny.com/entertainmen...
Snake eating it's own tail. Venture Capital are the property owners.
if you would please consult this graph by @alfredtwu.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Snake eating it's own tail. Venture Capital are the property owners.
Coming Summer 2026
Where's Waldo: The Movie
Starring Timothy Chalamagne
Where's Waldo: The Movie
Starring Timothy Chalamagne
August 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Coming Summer 2026
Where's Waldo: The Movie
Starring Timothy Chalamagne
Where's Waldo: The Movie
Starring Timothy Chalamagne
Hello, I'm an engineer in a movie. It's a sci-fi film because that the only time anyone finds engineers in any way entertaining.
Hello, I'm an author in a film. I will be seen doing anything but writing a book, because typing is boring. Then I will have a 30-second montage of clicking away at a keyboard, I will hand a ream of paper to my editor who will declare it to be genius and a week later I will be atop the NYT list.
Hello, I'm an attorney in a film. I have a pure and perfect knowledge of every area of practice in every jurisdiction. Nevertheless, I will be corrected by a plucky law school grad who just passed the bar. After some stubborn resistance, I will silently nod and take her under my wing.
July 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hello, I'm an engineer in a movie. It's a sci-fi film because that the only time anyone finds engineers in any way entertaining.
I want to go back to the world where the worst kind of Nazis we had to deal with were grammar Nazis.
July 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I want to go back to the world where the worst kind of Nazis we had to deal with were grammar Nazis.
We celebrate the ideals this country was founded on. Ideals we have always fallen far short of. But it's the striving toward those ideals, the slow inevitable progress, that we have celebrated.
And in this dark hour, we need to renew a commitment to achieving those ideals.
And in this dark hour, we need to renew a commitment to achieving those ideals.
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
July 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We celebrate the ideals this country was founded on. Ideals we have always fallen far short of. But it's the striving toward those ideals, the slow inevitable progress, that we have celebrated.
And in this dark hour, we need to renew a commitment to achieving those ideals.
And in this dark hour, we need to renew a commitment to achieving those ideals.
He's in a better place now.
He died?
No, he just went on vacation.
He died?
No, he just went on vacation.
if you tell me someone’s “in a better place now,” I will assume you mean anywhere away from me (I have very low self esteem)
June 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
He's in a better place now.
He died?
No, he just went on vacation.
He died?
No, he just went on vacation.
Ever notice there are no meat-based plant products. Seems like an untapped market.
June 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ever notice there are no meat-based plant products. Seems like an untapped market.
Woodworking day. Added some bench dogs to my "lightweight traveler's bench" designed by Rex Krueger.
Working with this bench, realized I need every inch I can get planing longer boards and needing to sit on the bench to add weight.
Just hammer from below to pop them up and hammer them down.
Working with this bench, realized I need every inch I can get planing longer boards and needing to sit on the bench to add weight.
Just hammer from below to pop them up and hammer them down.
June 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Woodworking day. Added some bench dogs to my "lightweight traveler's bench" designed by Rex Krueger.
Working with this bench, realized I need every inch I can get planing longer boards and needing to sit on the bench to add weight.
Just hammer from below to pop them up and hammer them down.
Working with this bench, realized I need every inch I can get planing longer boards and needing to sit on the bench to add weight.
Just hammer from below to pop them up and hammer them down.
Maybe it's just me, but there really hasn't been a lot of sci-fi films in the last few years. And the quality of what we have gotten has varied wildly.
Is it because we're actually living in the scifi future we dreamed of in the 90's and it's so disappointing?
Is it because we're actually living in the scifi future we dreamed of in the 90's and it's so disappointing?
May 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Maybe it's just me, but there really hasn't been a lot of sci-fi films in the last few years. And the quality of what we have gotten has varied wildly.
Is it because we're actually living in the scifi future we dreamed of in the 90's and it's so disappointing?
Is it because we're actually living in the scifi future we dreamed of in the 90's and it's so disappointing?