David Friedman
@ironicsans.com
Filmmaker, writer, occasional historian
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The great thing about AI is that you can remake movies the way you remember them
October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The great thing about AI is that you can remake movies the way you remember them
Fun story: The Flatiron was supposed to be called the Fuller Building, for the architect George Fuller. But nobody called it that. Everyone called it the Flatiron. So when the Fuller company built their new HQ in midtown, they put “Fuller Building” on it in big letters so that wouldn’t happen again.
September 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Fun story: The Flatiron was supposed to be called the Fuller Building, for the architect George Fuller. But nobody called it that. Everyone called it the Flatiron. So when the Fuller company built their new HQ in midtown, they put “Fuller Building” on it in big letters so that wouldn’t happen again.
Making my annual pilgrimage to the Classic Arcade Museum
August 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Making my annual pilgrimage to the Classic Arcade Museum
I've added new features to my new DOOMScroll game prototype! New: Simple weapon upgrades, and flames chasing you to keep you moving. More to come, but you can play the prototype now at ironicsans.com/doomscroll/
August 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I've added new features to my new DOOMScroll game prototype! New: Simple weapon upgrades, and flames chasing you to keep you moving. More to come, but you can play the prototype now at ironicsans.com/doomscroll/
August 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My first GPT-5 vibe-coding experiment is a game I’ve been wanting to make for a while and now I have a simple but playable prototype. I present: DOOMscroll! The game you play just by scrolling. ironicsans.com/doomscroll/
August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My first GPT-5 vibe-coding experiment is a game I’ve been wanting to make for a while and now I have a simple but playable prototype. I present: DOOMscroll! The game you play just by scrolling. ironicsans.com/doomscroll/
Pretty sure I saw Tinkerbell commuting to work this morning.
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Pretty sure I saw Tinkerbell commuting to work this morning.
“3 HP Commercial Blender”
June 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“3 HP Commercial Blender”
Bit of an overreach from Apple promoting their new movie by literally printing its name on every computer they sell. We get it, Apple.
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Bit of an overreach from Apple promoting their new movie by literally printing its name on every computer they sell. We get it, Apple.
I am not okay with this
June 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I am not okay with this
Amazon’s proof-of-delivery photo wasn’t strictly necessary this time since there were two witnesses.
June 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Amazon’s proof-of-delivery photo wasn’t strictly necessary this time since there were two witnesses.
Drove past this graveyard full of dead people named Rosemary
May 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Drove past this graveyard full of dead people named Rosemary
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
May 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
There are some really cool comics on offer today for Free Comic Book Day but I especially love this “work in progress” edition of the comic adaptation of the Dark Mirror episode San Junipero. www.freecomicbookday.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There are some really cool comics on offer today for Free Comic Book Day but I especially love this “work in progress” edition of the comic adaptation of the Dark Mirror episode San Junipero. www.freecomicbookday.com
And as I put down the phone, it occurred to me: My boy was just like me. He'd grown up just like me.
May 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And as I put down the phone, it occurred to me: My boy was just like me. He'd grown up just like me.
They're the same picture
April 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
They're the same picture
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this seems to be the answer from an interview with the screenwriter.
!["We tried to get Spider-Man. That was our big push and that's who we wanted.
[Marvell were like no, no, no," screenwriter David Simkins explained following a screening in Hollywood on Friday. "We went through the whole list [of characters] and then finally I think Marvel came to us and said, 'We've got this Thor guy. Just take him and use him and do whatever you want with it. It doesn't matter to us.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6sne4h2aclkw5qo4an4scmmg/bafkreie6eobnevczcvrmhlmyawmujfgcd6m4t5gyxylfxgyl4ta65pzpca@jpeg)
April 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this seems to be the answer from an interview with the screenwriter.
Visiting my parents, going through my old comic book collection.
April 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Visiting my parents, going through my old comic book collection.
Just remembered a drawing I did of Val Kilmer in dry erase marker back in high school, when I had a monthly gig as the "coming soon dry erase board" guy at my local video store in exchange for free rentals.
April 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just remembered a drawing I did of Val Kilmer in dry erase marker back in high school, when I had a monthly gig as the "coming soon dry erase board" guy at my local video store in exchange for free rentals.
I use Hazel for filing but there are always one-off files that don't fit any of my rules and pile up. So I used ChatGPT to write a script that uses a local LLM (so nothing leaves my computer) to examine and rename those files according to guidelines. I'm still refining it, but it's promising so far!
February 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I use Hazel for filing but there are always one-off files that don't fit any of my rules and pile up. So I used ChatGPT to write a script that uses a local LLM (so nothing leaves my computer) to examine and rename those files according to guidelines. I'm still refining it, but it's promising so far!
I submitted a Freedom Of Information request to the NYC Mayor's office 18 months ago. I just got yet another notice of extension. I don't even need this information anymore but I'm keeping the request open as a matter of principle.
February 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I submitted a Freedom Of Information request to the NYC Mayor's office 18 months ago. I just got yet another notice of extension. I don't even need this information anymore but I'm keeping the request open as a matter of principle.
Reading an article in the NY Times I noticed that their curly quotes are not always using the quote character but two curly apostrophes. Elsewhere on the same page it uses the quote character. Any theories on why? (It's not always a quote-within-a-quote where I see it, but sometimes it is)
January 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reading an article in the NY Times I noticed that their curly quotes are not always using the quote character but two curly apostrophes. Elsewhere on the same page it uses the quote character. Any theories on why? (It's not always a quote-within-a-quote where I see it, but sometimes it is)
Thanks to a Trump Executive Order, the department known as USDS, which always stood for U.S. Digital Service, has been renamed U.S. DOGE Service. This means that the D in the initialism USDS now stands for an acronym. Is this the only department with a recursive acronym or initialism?
January 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thanks to a Trump Executive Order, the department known as USDS, which always stood for U.S. Digital Service, has been renamed U.S. DOGE Service. This means that the D in the initialism USDS now stands for an acronym. Is this the only department with a recursive acronym or initialism?
I finally removed X from #Gisnep's "share your results" pop-up. Here's before and after. Maybe I should just remove them all and have one big "copy to clipboard" button instead.
January 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I finally removed X from #Gisnep's "share your results" pop-up. Here's before and after. Maybe I should just remove them all and have one big "copy to clipboard" button instead.