Dirk Bergstrom
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Dirk Bergstrom
@uncle-kridley.bsky.social
Avid cyclist and middle-aged metalhead.
I also make photographs.
https://otisbean.com/
As a mountain biker in his late 50s I feel this in my _bones_.
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
This is insanity!

And I love it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Sorry, I was feeling anti-social -- and anti-social-media.

I hope the shows rocked your socks off.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Oh man I would love to see VOtS play live!
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I've been a book guy since I could hold one, a cat guy for 20+ years, and an (initially reluctant) Oxford comma-er for five or six years, but I just can't get excited about scones.
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Where and when are you going to be in the Bay Area? Will there be a meet-n-greet opportunity?
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I make a concerted effort. I also try to keep my local bike shop afloat.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Oh god I'm turning into a prog guy. I'm middle-aged and I've got the beard, I guess it was inevitable.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Bravo.

A bit sad that I couldn't come up with something this good.
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Frog legs good, Trump legs bad.
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The X song is even more confusing because at some point "off the hook" started to mean "good" or "superlative" rather than "no longer culpable".

"You've got a premium iPhone, but you're just average"
October 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I've got a whole mental collection of song references to old-skool telephones that "kids these days" just won't get. One of the best is a track that uses the loud "you left the phone off the hook" beeping as a background sound.
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Congratulations, you won the internet for the month of October. Bravo. I look on your work and despair.
October 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I feel personally attacked by how absurdly nice that handwriting is.
September 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The 2023-2025 version of the Prius Prime has a 40 mi electric range.

And it looks great.
September 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I had never heard of Vaporeon before this week, but this is my third reference to the character being sexy. Maybe I hang out in the wrong places?
August 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
First computer I used was an IMSAI 8080 with a dot matrix printer terminal. Wasted a lot of paper playing Wumpus and Star Trek.

First computer that was mine was a TRS 80 Model I with a whopping 4K of RAM. Wrote my own extremely cheesy "video game" in BASIC.
August 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I'm halfway through it and so far it does not suck.
August 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Administrators said that university staff will henceforth wear brown shirts to signal their solidarity with government policies."
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
💪 🎭 🥇
July 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM