Ben Millett

screenshot saying "verify your phone number. before we can send a code to your email, we need to verify additional information about you."

Hi, you just logged in, using a code sent to your phone. To change your email, we need to know your phone number. Then we'll send a code to your old email. And a code to the phone number (that we did indeed just verify to sign in). And then a code to your new email. Wait, come back. Tell me the code

It's going to be a busy week at The Varsity, what with Pillion this weekend and The Bride next!

It really is!

A photograph of a record for That Thing You Do. The label says PlayTone, with That Thing You Do by The Wonders

It's a record! A record record record! With a Play-Tone label and everything!

(I mean, I knew this last year when I was trying to get paid and their system just flat out did not work as their docs said, as their support said, and failed in undocumented ways. But it's especially true now. I should invoice them for wasted time.)

As I've been going though updating emails, the absolute most trash system I've encountered is bill.com. Trash trash trash. Why do they think they're more special than any of my banks, cards, and other payment systems, and I'm only a recipient of payment there. TRASH.

The change, it's starting.

It’s not a perfect movie, but some of the looks, and inflections, and pauses are incredible.

I watched Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party after turning off Nine Months because who can watch Tom Arnold, and wowzers. Mormons aren’t the religion in HGBP, but that social fear/pressure is one and the same.

Any of y'all use Artwork Archive? I'm getting to the point where my (fabulous) Excel + Affinity Publisher workflow is too manual and limiting.

I deleted Bsky from my phone so now all I do is open the package tracking app just in case any of my vinyls are suddenly on the move. (They never are.)

A screenshot with the text: So often I want to read my grandmother a poem I’ve written, or ask my grandfather about the solo drive he made across the country and back after he retired the first time. His family didn’t know what to make of this journey, which was out of character for a man who would have had Responsibility inked on his forearm if he hadn’t found tattoos reckless. Whatever he’d discovered in his month on the road—about life, about America, about himself—he never said, and we never asked.

This writing in The Sun is so good. I feel like I know this grandfather entirely after these two sentences.

www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/602...

Proud Work Jacket | Ben Millett When I was considering the jacket I was going to make for QuiltCon 2026, I received an email from Bergdorf Goodman with a lookbook for Loro Piana. The photo on the left above caught my eye, particular...

My QuiltCon Couture didn't get worn this year, but it was a perfect companion at the Aurifil booth to show off the threads in my collection.

A white man's hand is holding two vinyl albums: Rosalia's Lux and Orville Peck's Bronco.

So can I hear things I've never heard before because they're records or because I have the volume turned up? Regardless, it's the experience I was hoping for. 12/10, would recommend.

It's too much work!

I think at the time .us was cheaper than .org, and I was expected to be pinching every penny. I don't know why it didn't occur to me how "Millett" rhymes with "net".

I am >this< close to switching to use .net instead of .us for my domain. I don't know why in 2008 I decided to get .us instead of .net or .org, but now that my domain's an adult, I think it's probably time to use the grown-up .net.

I'm so back.

Correct.

Too bad I missed you, but glad to hear you had a good time!

a photograph of a handwritten list, everything obscured except the line: "Tote alteration? longer wider straps"

I was wrong! It's actually on the list and I've now crossed it off.

Thank you Derek. I hope the same for you.

screenshot of a Google Search Console page saying that my quota of requesting page indexing has been maxxed out.

Well, this is good news. This means that I won't actually stay up all night requesting an index page by page

Well gosh.

Spare Block Quilted Tote (digital pattern) | Ben Millett Ben realized that with the temperatures warming up, he was thinking of possible futures of being outside and needing to transport food and beverages. He's made other totes of varying sizes, but wanted...

This was not on my (long) list of things to accomplish today, but it happened anyway: I've tweaked (and relisted) my Spare Block Quilted Tote pattern after effusive praise about my own tote in the airport yesterday.

Oh snap!

mondoshop.com/collections/...

A screenshot showing an order for vinyls of Carol and Orphan Black

Oopsies.

Shut the door! ‘Carol’ DOES exist!

varesesarabande.com/products/car...

A screenshot showing three record titles: KORZENIOWSKI, Abel/VARIOUS - A Single Man (Soundtrack) HURWITZ, Justin - La La Land (Soundtrack) RENNICKS, Stephen - Normal People (Soundtrack)

Unfortunately, it appears the soundtracks to ‘Carol’ and ‘The Eternals’ did not land on vinyl, so I was forced to only get these three.

Whoops. Just bought three more albums on vinyl.