Nathan J. Williams
@nathanjw.bsky.social
Boston-area nerd, computer professional, parent, cook, brewer, award-winning cidermaker. Xoogler. He/him.
Also @nathanw@metasocial.com (fediverse), nathanw.62 (Signal)
Also @nathanw@metasocial.com (fediverse), nathanw.62 (Signal)
As promised. (Cubano from Dave's Fresh Pasta)
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As promised. (Cubano from Dave's Fresh Pasta)
Excellent signs courtesy of @kjhealy.co .
October 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Excellent signs courtesy of @kjhealy.co .
Re-upping the "award winning cidermaker" part of my bio - thank you to the New England Homebrew Jamboree for a #1 prize for my 2023 Quebec-style ice cider.
September 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Re-upping the "award winning cidermaker" part of my bio - thank you to the New England Homebrew Jamboree for a #1 prize for my 2023 Quebec-style ice cider.
Regarding the discourse du jour, you don't even want a regular knife for opening boxes. One of these "Canary" tools is way better. It's good at cutting through tape and cardboard without cutting or stabbing the contents or yourself, and is coated (Teflon?) so tape doesn't stick to it.
July 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Regarding the discourse du jour, you don't even want a regular knife for opening boxes. One of these "Canary" tools is way better. It's good at cutting through tape and cardboard without cutting or stabbing the contents or yourself, and is coated (Teflon?) so tape doesn't stick to it.
At the Woo Sox game at Polar Park in retro Paw Sox gear. Purely by accident it's retro livery day for the team, too!
July 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
At the Woo Sox game at Polar Park in retro Paw Sox gear. Purely by accident it's retro livery day for the team, too!
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
July 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.
The same commuter rail train has gone by on the Grand Junction line (non-revenue) four times in the past hour. Some kind of track testing? There's this laser-scanner-looking glow under two of the coaches. @universalhub.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The same commuter rail train has gone by on the Grand Junction line (non-revenue) four times in the past hour. Some kind of track testing? There's this laser-scanner-looking glow under two of the coaches. @universalhub.com
Here for the penultimate day at Blue Man Group in Boston with the family.
July 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Here for the penultimate day at Blue Man Group in Boston with the family.
Bits of Trinitite (fused sand from the first atomic bomb test) that my grandmother collected while she worked there during the war.
July 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Bits of Trinitite (fused sand from the first atomic bomb test) that my grandmother collected while she worked there during the war.
Dinner: Farro, pan-roasted broccoli, and sliced chicken breast with a vermouth and cream pan sauce.
June 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Dinner: Farro, pan-roasted broccoli, and sliced chicken breast with a vermouth and cream pan sauce.
Quality graphic design on the next-stop displays on the MBTA's new trains. At some stops the ovals for connecting buses have drop shadows, at some they don't. Ovals for things other than buses never have shadows.
June 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Quality graphic design on the next-stop displays on the MBTA's new trains. At some stops the ovals for connecting buses have drop shadows, at some they don't. Ovals for things other than buses never have shadows.
@drinkmaps.bsky.social Spotted your book in its natural habitat, down at the Map Center in RI. @mapcenter.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@drinkmaps.bsky.social Spotted your book in its natural habitat, down at the Map Center in RI. @mapcenter.com
Top of page 1 today, which is a start.
May 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Top of page 1 today, which is a start.
Happy place: NERAX (.org), our local cask beer festival. I plan to not think about anything else for a few hours.
April 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Happy place: NERAX (.org), our local cask beer festival. I plan to not think about anything else for a few hours.
Every month when I change the filter on the mask I wear on the subway it looks like this:
April 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Every month when I change the filter on the mask I wear on the subway it looks like this:
Whatever is going on it's totally succeeding at preventing teenage pregnancies. opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-h...
March 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Whatever is going on it's totally succeeding at preventing teenage pregnancies. opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-h...
I don't think this is how the parking enforcement cameras in Somerville were meant to be used.
Hopefully they're self-enforcing now?
Hopefully they're self-enforcing now?
January 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I don't think this is how the parking enforcement cameras in Somerville were meant to be used.
Hopefully they're self-enforcing now?
Hopefully they're self-enforcing now?
Man, there's a lot of gunk in the air. This represents 15-20 hours of subway and bus time
(Mask filter from a gatapack.com mask).
(Mask filter from a gatapack.com mask).
January 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Man, there's a lot of gunk in the air. This represents 15-20 hours of subway and bus time
(Mask filter from a gatapack.com mask).
(Mask filter from a gatapack.com mask).
December 23, 2024 at 2:55 AM
A Bad Place classic:
Reactions to Socks as a Christmas Gift by Calendar Age:
0-3: blurb nurg (eats socks)
4-12: oh, socks
13-18: (SIGH) socks are you FUCKING serious
19-39: oh thank god, something useful, thank god
40+: Warm feet are the solitary joy remaining to me in this dark and fallen world
Reactions to Socks as a Christmas Gift by Calendar Age:
0-3: blurb nurg (eats socks)
4-12: oh, socks
13-18: (SIGH) socks are you FUCKING serious
19-39: oh thank god, something useful, thank god
40+: Warm feet are the solitary joy remaining to me in this dark and fallen world
December 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM
A Bad Place classic:
Reactions to Socks as a Christmas Gift by Calendar Age:
0-3: blurb nurg (eats socks)
4-12: oh, socks
13-18: (SIGH) socks are you FUCKING serious
19-39: oh thank god, something useful, thank god
40+: Warm feet are the solitary joy remaining to me in this dark and fallen world
Reactions to Socks as a Christmas Gift by Calendar Age:
0-3: blurb nurg (eats socks)
4-12: oh, socks
13-18: (SIGH) socks are you FUCKING serious
19-39: oh thank god, something useful, thank god
40+: Warm feet are the solitary joy remaining to me in this dark and fallen world
Every day we stray further from God's light.
November 17, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Every day we stray further from God's light.
