We’re at a hotel’s freebie breakfast and some dad just walked by with a cup of sausages.


Mrs. Bob and daughter announced at supper tonight they are going to see Barbie on Tuesday (the day after we drop the boy off at college). I turned to him and started to say, “Tuesday is me and you, bud” but I stopped myself half way through. I couldn’t swallow. I couldn’t speak. My TV buddy, my movie buddy, my news buddy is heading off to start a new chapter. I am so proud of him. But wow does it hurt.



So, I was reading this article about curvy walls and it, of course,* made me remember a scene from Veep (best. show. ever).

*At least how my brain works.


Ever since I switched my #wordle starting word to AUDIO I’ve been far more successful than in the past.


How I measure a successful weekend now: I used $25 Target gift certificate that’s been sitting in my inbox since 2016.


I just got back from vacation and am announcing here first that I’m to marry Glacier National Park. #nationalpark


So I’ve given up on Instagram, Twitter, and now Reddit. Just a little more to go.



I complain a lot about the world (rightly so!), but this weekend was excellent. My family made a really nice Father’s Day(s) for me and I feel really good.


I finally got around to fixing up my Piggy. The stabs were overlubed and now they are just right.

The Piggy mechanical keyboard on the Keebmat deskmat. The Piggy is on a bamboo colored desk. The little action figure of Walle is visible in the background.

This is the Piggy with White on Lilac in the DSA profile. The switches are Emerald Silks which are unfortunately no longer available, but these NovelKeys silks are the same, just in a different color.


It’s like the show Extrapolations outside my window here in NYC.


Tech sites: Man, traffic is down, ad sales are down… Maybe Apple will create something we can all have hot takes on.
Intern: Even without using the thing?
Tech sites: Yes.
Apple: Here’s our idea for a new kind of computing.
Intern: I wrote up 1,000 words about how this will make us all sad forever.
Tech sites: Without using the product?
Intern: Yes.
Tech sites: Attaboy!


Apple was dreaming of Apple Silicon since Steve Jobs came back to Apple. Heck, many of their products were built as if they were already using their own chip design: Power Mac G4 Cube, original MacBook Air, 2013 Mac Pro.

Can you imagine if the cylinder Mac Pro came out today with Apple Silicon? What a great Mac that would be with the high-end M1 Ultra, 128GB of RAM, and 8TB of storage!

I hope next week we see a totally different Mac Pro designed with Apple Silicon in mind.


The United States’ answer to “why can’t we?



I came across this tweet about a basking shark. Amazing.

I stand by my long-time stance that if Earth was written about in science fiction it wouldn’t be believed. It would be a step too far. How many languages? How many species of animals and insects? How much water? How much land? How much beauty?



If any politician paid tribute today to the children killed in Uvalde while also not moving legislation ahead to ban guns, well… they can fuck right off.