mikerengel@bsky.social
@mikerengel.bsky.social
I’m just this guy, you know?
Mistyped “database” as “databae.” Maybe I have too close of a relationship with my data.
March 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Mistyped “database” as “databae.” Maybe I have too close of a relationship with my data.
Got a big old lump on the top of my head from where the vacuum cleaner handle cold-cocked me an hour ago. I was down on my hands and knees using the pet hair attachment on the upstairs hallway rug and it tipped over. That’s what I get for being thorough. Man vs. machine - machine takes this round
March 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Got a big old lump on the top of my head from where the vacuum cleaner handle cold-cocked me an hour ago. I was down on my hands and knees using the pet hair attachment on the upstairs hallway rug and it tipped over. That’s what I get for being thorough. Man vs. machine - machine takes this round
There’s nothing like Southwest Diner brunch with @gatewaygroupie.com to refill your soul tank! Julie you are a stellar human and I’m deeply grateful for your lasting friendship and perspective.
March 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
There’s nothing like Southwest Diner brunch with @gatewaygroupie.com to refill your soul tank! Julie you are a stellar human and I’m deeply grateful for your lasting friendship and perspective.
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My free weekly newsletter this week was about SNL50, and how "Saturday Night Live," for better or worse, is inextricable from one's life. I say this as someone who was born the actual day before the first episode. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...
Volume 5, Issue 59: Watching Too Much Television
"Nature really does weed out the nimrods."
williamfleitch.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My free weekly newsletter this week was about SNL50, and how "Saturday Night Live," for better or worse, is inextricable from one's life. I say this as someone who was born the actual day before the first episode. You should subscribe, you might like it. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-5-i...
Thanks random person, I appreciate being seen.
February 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Thanks random person, I appreciate being seen.
Two American dudes hanging out at the mall, as you do. @bunnydelgado.bsky.social, how have we known each other for almost 30 years? This increasingly uncertain world feels a lot more certain with you in it. I’m grateful for you, your friendship & support, and for the time we can spend together.
February 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Two American dudes hanging out at the mall, as you do. @bunnydelgado.bsky.social, how have we known each other for almost 30 years? This increasingly uncertain world feels a lot more certain with you in it. I’m grateful for you, your friendship & support, and for the time we can spend together.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
In nicer news, it’s Friday, there’s a new Manic Street Preachers album out, the sun came out for the second day in a row, and I picked up this box of cute little cakes for Susan for Valentine’s Day.
February 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In nicer news, it’s Friday, there’s a new Manic Street Preachers album out, the sun came out for the second day in a row, and I picked up this box of cute little cakes for Susan for Valentine’s Day.
My new hobby, apparently, is yelling “fuck you!” At Cybertrucks whenever I pass or encounter one on the road. Maybe eventually I’ll graduate to writing “fascist” in the layers of winter dirt and grime they’re all encrusted in.
February 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My new hobby, apparently, is yelling “fuck you!” At Cybertrucks whenever I pass or encounter one on the road. Maybe eventually I’ll graduate to writing “fascist” in the layers of winter dirt and grime they’re all encrusted in.
Wow, did I really need to listen to Wilco’s “Cruel Country” (album) this morning.
February 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Wow, did I really need to listen to Wilco’s “Cruel Country” (album) this morning.
I’ve never had any desire to go back and experience American life in the Gilded Age, but here we are.
February 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’ve never had any desire to go back and experience American life in the Gilded Age, but here we are.
Feeling unmoored the past few weeks, but also doing my best to remember my own agency. Positive actions: gave blood; called my loser senators; signed up for two more volunteer shifts at International Institute (poor IISTL never hurt nobody); checked on friends; cooked good meals for my family.
February 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Feeling unmoored the past few weeks, but also doing my best to remember my own agency. Positive actions: gave blood; called my loser senators; signed up for two more volunteer shifts at International Institute (poor IISTL never hurt nobody); checked on friends; cooked good meals for my family.
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“Talking shit about billionaires” seems to be a broadly popular mode of rhetoric *before* one of them became an unelected king. Weird more Dems don’t try it.
February 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“Talking shit about billionaires” seems to be a broadly popular mode of rhetoric *before* one of them became an unelected king. Weird more Dems don’t try it.
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“The Great Beyond” was released as a single 25 years ago today. Check out the video, directed by Liz Friedlander.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Jn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Jn...
R.E.M. - The Great Beyond (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by remhq
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January 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“The Great Beyond” was released as a single 25 years ago today. Check out the video, directed by Liz Friedlander.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Jn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Jn...
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in case you need it, the panda cam at the national zoo has gone live nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/pand...
Giant Panda Cam
Watch the giant pandas at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo starting in January 2025.
nationalzoo.si.edu
January 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
in case you need it, the panda cam at the national zoo has gone live nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/pand...
Gonna tell my kids this was Pet Shop Boys.
January 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was Pet Shop Boys.
Zazie just looked at the cover of Beck’s “Sea Change” and asked me if it was Gotye.
January 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Zazie just looked at the cover of Beck’s “Sea Change” and asked me if it was Gotye.
I figure I’ll spend a lot of the next 4 years being angered, but I refuse to spend that long being angry. It only gets me so far. My plan, for whatever it’s worth, is to counteract that with supporting my wife, raising my kids, being there for my fam/friends, making art & speaking out any/all BS.
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I figure I’ll spend a lot of the next 4 years being angered, but I refuse to spend that long being angry. It only gets me so far. My plan, for whatever it’s worth, is to counteract that with supporting my wife, raising my kids, being there for my fam/friends, making art & speaking out any/all BS.
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
-Albert Camus
-Albert Camus
January 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
-Albert Camus
-Albert Camus
A+ holiday gift, finally assembled on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
January 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A+ holiday gift, finally assembled on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
I’m curious what the correlation is between people who say they love winter and people who have garages?
January 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’m curious what the correlation is between people who say they love winter and people who have garages?
Accidentally put your hands one to the right of your keyboard’s home row keys and all of the sudden you’re typing Dutch.
December 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Accidentally put your hands one to the right of your keyboard’s home row keys and all of the sudden you’re typing Dutch.
Writing cards to family and friends is one of my favorite and most treasured parts of the holiday season. I picked out some great multicultural ones this year for our multicultural family.
December 8, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Writing cards to family and friends is one of my favorite and most treasured parts of the holiday season. I picked out some great multicultural ones this year for our multicultural family.