Eric Fredericksen
@ericfredericksen.bsky.social
are you a Showbiz Pizza person or a Chuck E. Cheese person?
July 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
are you a Showbiz Pizza person or a Chuck E. Cheese person?
I supported local food systems when buying tonight's dinner (walked to the Chipotle that just opened a block away).
June 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I supported local food systems when buying tonight's dinner (walked to the Chipotle that just opened a block away).
I love that the Grateful Dead and Van Halen have a key cover in common.
May 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I love that the Grateful Dead and Van Halen have a key cover in common.
I don't think it's fair that lunch ends at 1. It's like you're already an hour behind on your afternoon. Lunch should run from 12 until noon.
May 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I don't think it's fair that lunch ends at 1. It's like you're already an hour behind on your afternoon. Lunch should run from 12 until noon.
"If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work." Factual.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gen X Career Meltdown
Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work." Factual.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The pentatonic scale is the worst thing that ever happened to the guitar.
March 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The pentatonic scale is the worst thing that ever happened to the guitar.
Maybe the only thing Orwell didn't nail in his otherwise perfect 1984 is that Big Brother from any reasonable perspective would be an obvious dipshit (not that it still wouldn't matter.)
February 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Maybe the only thing Orwell didn't nail in his otherwise perfect 1984 is that Big Brother from any reasonable perspective would be an obvious dipshit (not that it still wouldn't matter.)
Twenty years (?!) after, I tried to go back and listen to Fiery Furnaces, but it was kind of exhausting.
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Twenty years (?!) after, I tried to go back and listen to Fiery Furnaces, but it was kind of exhausting.
"He's pretty harmless," neighbor Patty Smith said. "He just wants some good trash, like we all like some good trash."
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
Bear found hiding under Altadena home after Eaton Fire
Samy Arbid had a surprise guest hiding out at his Altadena home when he finally returned to the neighborhood after the Eaton Fire.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"He's pretty harmless," neighbor Patty Smith said. "He just wants some good trash, like we all like some good trash."
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
Best to first read "Who Goes Nazi," the linked Harper's essay from 1941 that inspired this clarifying update for our time. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Goes MAGA?
In 1934, a courageous, flawed, complicated journalist named Dorothy Thompson was kicked out of Nazi Germany for reporting with relentless, brutal accuracy on...
buttondown.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Best to first read "Who Goes Nazi," the linked Harper's essay from 1941 that inspired this clarifying update for our time. buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Just watched a Cyber Truck try to parallel park on 4th in Kits.
January 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just watched a Cyber Truck try to parallel park on 4th in Kits.
Has anyone noticed that men, past a certain age, often forget to clear their throat before speaking, resulting in a disturbing gurgle accompanying everything they say?
January 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Has anyone noticed that men, past a certain age, often forget to clear their throat before speaking, resulting in a disturbing gurgle accompanying everything they say?
Just figured out the perfect metaphor for operating with ADHD. Every action with more than one variable becomes the Chicken - Fox - Sack of Corn River Crossing puzzle.
January 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Just figured out the perfect metaphor for operating with ADHD. Every action with more than one variable becomes the Chicken - Fox - Sack of Corn River Crossing puzzle.
Victory at last. (Ba Bar, Seattle)
October 30, 2023 at 12:14 PM
Victory at last. (Ba Bar, Seattle)
Search drinks in your camera roll
October 6, 2023 at 6:56 AM
Search drinks in your camera roll
Just got thoroughly defeated trying to get pho in Seattle. Like all of Seattle was just telling us to give up and go home until we did.
September 30, 2023 at 10:26 PM
Just got thoroughly defeated trying to get pho in Seattle. Like all of Seattle was just telling us to give up and go home until we did.
I did some indigo dying last weekend at El Nido.
September 9, 2023 at 6:18 AM
I did some indigo dying last weekend at El Nido.
Has anyone put a scene in a movie where a character puts their phone into an empty coffee cup to amplify the music? It might be the cutest contemporary gesture.
September 9, 2023 at 3:54 AM
Has anyone put a scene in a movie where a character puts their phone into an empty coffee cup to amplify the music? It might be the cutest contemporary gesture.
I played a version of this in school but you had to do it in theoryspeak.
August 29, 2023 at 11:34 PM
I played a version of this in school but you had to do it in theoryspeak.
Me: Quitters never win.
@betseybrock.bsky.social : Unless it's a quitting contest.
@betseybrock.bsky.social : Unless it's a quitting contest.
August 24, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Me: Quitters never win.
@betseybrock.bsky.social : Unless it's a quitting contest.
@betseybrock.bsky.social : Unless it's a quitting contest.
The generational legacy of earworms available to a person who had something like this be a top-five hit during his childhood.
Chuck Mangione, 'Feels So Good'
The American flugelhorn and trumpet player, pianist, keyboardist, percussionist, composer, arranger and producer Chuck Mangione (1940) and his band play his ...
youtu.be
August 22, 2023 at 6:05 PM
The generational legacy of earworms available to a person who had something like this be a top-five hit during his childhood.
Eleven years ago, Google's director of research did some work to confirm the power of my Wordle starting word. I'd drifted away from TRANS in favor of just kinda guessing, but now I'm back.
English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited or ETAOIN SRHLDCU
norvig.com
August 17, 2023 at 3:07 PM
Eleven years ago, Google's director of research did some work to confirm the power of my Wordle starting word. I'd drifted away from TRANS in favor of just kinda guessing, but now I'm back.
New moon in two hours.
August 17, 2023 at 7:58 AM
New moon in two hours.
I think this is the first 8:30am I have viewed from my office since March 13, 2020.
August 15, 2023 at 4:03 PM
I think this is the first 8:30am I have viewed from my office since March 13, 2020.