Six years ago, Elsa and I went to The Senator in Baltimore where she got to watch Die Hard for the first time.
Last night, we went to a Regal in Battery Park where she saw The Fifth Element for the first time.
What I’m saying is she has really needed more Bruce Willis in her life.
I’ve always been a little sad that I couldn’t come up with a good name for my blog. So far, I’ve settled for a good URL. https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/named-blogs/
Every time I see one of my posts on Mastodon or Bluesky with an inline link and not OpenGraph I start to think OpenGraph was a mistake. It works well when the point of a post is to link somewhere else, but is terrible when using an inline link like hypertext intended.
@selectric @ultranurd every section of a grocery story should have the item you’re looking for right next to something that could be an interesting and creative substitution.
@selectric @ultranurd we could be teaching people how to cook with the way we lay out stores. I want my sections to be like “cooking liquids” organized by “umami/salty”, “sweet”, “sour/acidic”, and “heat/spicy”. Then a sauces section organized the same. Then all dried grains together— why the fuck are rice and pasta and oatmeal not together? Etc.
I’ve made it down to two unread items in my RSS reader for the first time in forever. Tomorrow is going to be RSS 0 day, I can feel it.
The only data tracking that works is incidental and pervasive: https://json.blog/2024/11/10/ive-never-taken.html
I don’t know why Thor Love and Thunder got so much hate. It was definitely better than average Marvel for me.
Under appreciated element of why students drop out of STEM— it’s not just the terribly designed, hard, 350 student intro classes, it’s because our whole lives we’re told this is what it looks like to be a scientist… and spoiler alert: it’s not.
https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/113402831219707639
I am terrified Trump is about to win. Absolutely fucking terrified. Existentially terrified. We are well on our way to an America so broken it’s irredeemable, at least in my life time.
@ultranurd yeah it’s built on a GM platform though reviews have also said that it has some nice Honda touches. It’s a dead end for Honda but also it’s a 24 month lease for so little.
My lease is up in May. The Honda Prologue, by all accounts, is a pretty mediocre EV. I’ve been really eying the Ionic 5. But there’s a 24 month lease deal for $219 a month on the Prologue right now. That’s less than we pay for our HRV today.
