I don't discuss it much in this forum and I'm not gonna start today, but there's a reason I don't consider my life to have started until the day I left for college. Even on my worst days as a nominal adult I have felt a sense of background relief, perhaps like a rescue animal might when it wakes […]

To be clear, setting up the smart bulbs wasn't the hard part; these are smarties number five and six in our little apartment, so I already had all the infrastructure for them set up. It's more that every interaction with the previous owner's handiwork is layer upon layer of surprise. As it […]

Did my sole anonymous colleague withdraw their vote somehow while I was writing this? Come on

This is the gayest kiss-cam I’ve ever seen and the crowd is at least as loud for it as anything happening on the ice

They couldn’t have done something with “whoop, whoop”, though? It was right there

The official chant is “Let’s go Si-rens, WEE-WOO, WEE-WOO” and I don’t know how I feel about this. Happily, my feelings don’t matter here. The WEE WOO signs are many

The Sirens are playing the Minnesota Frost and I get the impression that the locals are Aware and being muted in their normally enthusiastic booing and hissing. Except when the Frost are ahead 1-2 like they are right now, cuz eff that

I want this year to be the year I make a serious attempt at turning BumpySkies into a literal money-maker. I have some ideas! None of the ideas are "ads", and also none involve charging for anything it currently does. And, in fact, I want to make all the things it currently does as good as […]

There was cold comfort, in watching a movie from 1973 last week, in a scene where two cops wanted to bring the protagonist in for questioning, but they had no reasonable suspicion... so one of the cops shoves him into the other cop, whoops, alleged assault, away he goes.

Some problems feel […]