Charles King
@cfk1.bsky.social
Writer, editor. Former (Pund-IT) tech industry analyst. Interests include reading (mysteries, sci-fi/fantasy, poetry, history and science), woodworking, cooking and travel.
This may take the cake for over-packaging: Bass Pro Shops sent me a pack of foam fishing indicators (bobbers) enclosed in three separate padded envelopes.
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This may take the cake for over-packaging: Bass Pro Shops sent me a pack of foam fishing indicators (bobbers) enclosed in three separate padded envelopes.
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
August 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
If Orangey McTinypaws is sending me this kinda crap, he must truly be desperate.
June 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If Orangey McTinypaws is sending me this kinda crap, he must truly be desperate.
Quite a jacket blurb...
May 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Quite a jacket blurb...
Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
November 15, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
Post a perfect album from when you were 21.
September 16, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Post a perfect album from when you were 21.
Tonight's sunset from the balcony of a Bay Area motel.
September 7, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Tonight's sunset from the balcony of a Bay Area motel.
I dislike being curmudgeonly this early in the morning but, boy oh boy, the redesigned @sfchronicle app sucks deeply, widely and frequently. Now features wide (and unadjustable) borders that take up nearly 1/3 of the tablet display, and has eliminated simple page swiping with large arrow icons. 🤮
March 26, 2024 at 3:06 PM
I dislike being curmudgeonly this early in the morning but, boy oh boy, the redesigned @sfchronicle app sucks deeply, widely and frequently. Now features wide (and unadjustable) borders that take up nearly 1/3 of the tablet display, and has eliminated simple page swiping with large arrow icons. 🤮
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me...
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me...
December 2, 2023 at 2:32 AM
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me...
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me...