Ten Years Of Tedium
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· Nov 7
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Finally, the Christmas piece you’ve all been waiting for—the one that connects the fates of C.W. McCall and Mannheim Steamroller.
David Buck outdid himself this time:
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David Buck outdid himself this time:
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Convoy Steamroller: C.W. McCall’s Unexpected Christmas Music Tie
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes.
tedium.co
December 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Finally, the Christmas piece you’ve all been waiting for—the one that connects the fates of C.W. McCall and Mannheim Steamroller.
David Buck outdid himself this time:
tedium.co/2025/12/25/c...
new @tedium.co
David Buck outdid himself this time:
tedium.co/2025/12/25/c...
new @tedium.co
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17241600/cb-radio-cw-mccall-mannheim-steamroller-christmas
Convoy Steamroller: C.W. McCall’s Unexpected Christmas Music Tie
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17241600/cb-radio-cw-mccall-mannheim-steamroller-christmas
Not every musician can be into CB radios and synth-driven Christmas music. But the guy behind Mannheim Steamroller pulled it off.
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Convoy Steamroller: C.W. McCall’s Unexpected Christmas Music Tie
The unexpected connection between advertising, a 1975 novelty song, CB radio, and some of your favorite modern Christmas tunes.
tedium.co
December 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Not every musician can be into CB radios and synth-driven Christmas music. But the guy behind Mannheim Steamroller pulled it off.
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My assessment of running Tedium in 2025: “Often, I feel like Troy Barnes from Community, returning with pizza, only to find all hell has broken loose in the short time I’ve been gone.”
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a man in a suit is carrying a stack of pizza boxes .
Alt: a man in a suit is carrying a stack of pizza boxes .
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December 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My assessment of running Tedium in 2025: “Often, I feel like Troy Barnes from Community, returning with pizza, only to find all hell has broken loose in the short time I’ve been gone.”
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Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17239895/tedium-gift-guide-2025
2025 Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide: Later Than Ever
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17239895/tedium-gift-guide-2025
Out this holiday season: Stocking stuffers.
In: Egg cartons that you bought in bulk from Amazon, filled with gifts.
Does it make sense? No. But honestly, what does?
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In: Egg cartons that you bought in bulk from Amazon, filled with gifts.
Does it make sense? No. But honestly, what does?
tedium.co/2025/12/22/t...
2025 Last-Minute Holiday Gift Guide: Later Than Ever
Tedium’s annual last-minute gift guide presumes you’re going to give your loved ones gifts on the 26th … or let’s be honest, the middle of January.
tedium.co
December 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Out this holiday season: Stocking stuffers.
In: Egg cartons that you bought in bulk from Amazon, filled with gifts.
Does it make sense? No. But honestly, what does?
tedium.co/2025/12/22/t...
In: Egg cartons that you bought in bulk from Amazon, filled with gifts.
Does it make sense? No. But honestly, what does?
tedium.co/2025/12/22/t...
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On bottle deposits, cheap local commercials, projectile-style turkeys, union-busting grocery stores, and the friend of mine who showed me the ropes. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17238034/chris-zolinski-remembrance
The Guy Who Got Me My First Job
On bottle deposits, cheap local commercials, projectile-style turkeys, union-busting grocery stores, and the friend of mine who showed me the ropes.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On bottle deposits, cheap local commercials, projectile-style turkeys, union-busting grocery stores, and the friend of mine who showed me the ropes. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17238034/chris-zolinski-remembrance
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In case you’re looking forward to the @404media.co zine, here’s some behind-the-scenes content about its layout process that is also reliably nerdy.
Over on @tedium.co tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the @404media.co zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux.
Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.
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Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.
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The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
tedium.co
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In case you’re looking forward to the @404media.co zine, here’s some behind-the-scenes content about its layout process that is also reliably nerdy.
Not sure how many folks are doing this, but we just did it and it more or less worked.
tedium.co/2025/12/10/4...
tedium.co/2025/12/10/4...
The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
tedium.co
December 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Not sure how many folks are doing this, but we just did it and it more or less worked.
tedium.co/2025/12/10/4...
tedium.co/2025/12/10/4...
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17229376/404-media-zine-linux-affinity
The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
feed.tedium.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17229376/404-media-zine-linux-affinity
How the shipping container, a dominant force in ocean shipping, came from a truck driver whose invention proved to be too good at its job. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17227945/shipping-container-history
Shipping Containers: Malcom McLean’s Complicated Gift To Free Trade
How the shipping container, a dominant force in ocean shipping, came from a truck driver whose invention proved to be too good at its job.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
How the shipping container, a dominant force in ocean shipping, came from a truck driver whose invention proved to be too good at its job. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17227945/shipping-container-history
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What makes a “doorbuster” a “doorbuster,” and who came up with the idea?
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The Hidden Psychology Behind Doorbuster Deals
On doorbuster deals, and the way that shopping events like Black Friday help channel our deep-seated shopping rage.
tedium.co
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What makes a “doorbuster” a “doorbuster,” and who came up with the idea?
tedium.co/2025/11/29/b...
new @tedium.co
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new @tedium.co
On doorbuster deals, and the way that shopping events like Black Friday help channel our deep-seated shopping rage. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17219208/black-friday-doorbuster-shopping-philosophy
The Hidden Psychology Behind Doorbuster Deals
On doorbuster deals, and the way that shopping events like Black Friday help channel our deep-seated shopping rage.
feed.tedium.co
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
On doorbuster deals, and the way that shopping events like Black Friday help channel our deep-seated shopping rage. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17219208/black-friday-doorbuster-shopping-philosophy
Considering the inherent tension of the Ovation guitar, which applied aerospace concepts to the acoustic guitar. It’s a brilliant object, but perhaps a conflicted one. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17216323/ovation-guitar-history
Ovation Guitar History: A Defense Contractor Tries Music
Considering the inherent tension of the Ovation guitar, which applied aerospace concepts to the acoustic guitar. It’s a brilliant-but-conflicted object.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Considering the inherent tension of the Ovation guitar, which applied aerospace concepts to the acoustic guitar. It’s a brilliant object, but perhaps a conflicted one. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17216323/ovation-guitar-history
The CEO of Patreon is a great video creator, but perhaps he shouldn’t use that superpower to make a video op-ed. tedium.co/2025/11/19/p...
Should CEOs Produce Their Own NYT Video Op-Eds?
The New York Times’ choice to publish a video op-ed by the CEO of Patreon points at why exec-produced video op-eds might be a bad idea.
tedium.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The CEO of Patreon is a great video creator, but perhaps he shouldn’t use that superpower to make a video op-ed. tedium.co/2025/11/19/p...
The New York Times’ choice to publish a video op-ed by the CEO of Patreon points at why exec-produced video op-eds might be a bad idea. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17213014/patreon-new-york-times-op-ed
Should CEOs Produce Their Own NYT Video Op-Eds?
The New York Times’ choice to publish a video op-ed by the CEO of Patreon points at why exec-produced video op-eds might be a bad idea.
feed.tedium.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The New York Times’ choice to publish a video op-ed by the CEO of Patreon points at why exec-produced video op-eds might be a bad idea. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17213014/patreon-new-york-times-op-ed
Thumb keyboards built for the home theaters represent one of the more forgotten niches in computing. But with computers encroaching on the living room again, could that change? https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17210564/home-theater-mini-keyboard-history
Why Does Every Thumb Keyboard Look Like That?
Thumb keyboards built for home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?
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November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Thumb keyboards built for the home theaters represent one of the more forgotten niches in computing. But with computers encroaching on the living room again, could that change? https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17210564/home-theater-mini-keyboard-history
To people who are members of the Rii mini keyboard fan base, sorry in advance.
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Why Does Every Thumb Keyboard Look Like That?
Thumb keyboards built for the home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?
tedium.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
To people who are members of the Rii mini keyboard fan base, sorry in advance.
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Stage banter: Harder than it looks. tedium.co/2025/11/08/b...
Terrible Stage Banter: Why Many Musicians Stink at Talking on Stage
Pondering why, despite the fact that bands and musicians have to do it every single night, many suck at stage banter—particularly, but not limited to, Elvis.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Stage banter: Harder than it looks. tedium.co/2025/11/08/b...
Pondering why, despite the fact that bands and musicians have to do it every single night, many suck at stage banter—particularly, but not limited to, Elvis. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17205790/bad-stage-banter-history
Terrible Stage Banter: Why Many Musicians Stink at Talking on Stage
Pondering why, despite the fact that bands and musicians have to do it every single night, many suck at stage banter—particularly, but not limited to, Elvis.
feed.tedium.co
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Pondering why, despite the fact that bands and musicians have to do it every single night, many suck at stage banter—particularly, but not limited to, Elvis. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17205790/bad-stage-banter-history
Let’s Talk About Werewolves
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