Brian King

A Gen Alpha said “the DJ is vibe”, referring to me as I did DJ stuff from the patio for trick or treaters. Such validation.

Reading strangers’ opinions used to be a rare and novel idea. There was a whole “Opinions” section in newspapers so people could get a little daily taste of them while having a sensible breakfast cigarette.

A local discussion thread about empty local food banks with the OP imploring us to “not let this devolve into politics”.

Good call. Let’s shield people’s feelings from the real-world consequences of their actions.

What’s a guy gotta do to find a TV-sized greyscale eink screen that isn’t some digital signage nonsense for conference centers?

If this was announced ahead of time, Charles de Gaulle airport would have been overwhelmed by electronic music nerds.

Criminally underrated. Steven Spielberg should bring it back.

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.

Here's the video of it running.

I was so excited when that news broke. Not just a heist, but a heist for Crown Jewels at the Louvre. It’s great to see that people are still living their dreams.

Getting a used MPC Live 2 tomorrow. Surely, this will be the instrument I buy that unlocks some sort of latent musical talent.

Fuckin’ Ken Burnt.

Next: Thompson Street, named after William Thompson, a "not very distinguished" general. A car with a Vermont plate nearly grazed Burns, but he was unfazed; Vermont was not yet a state during the Revolution, "so how can he hit me?" He passed a Marc Jacobs (not a general) boutique and hit Wooster Street, named after General David Wooster. As he crossed Greene ("You cannot say enough about the importance of Nathanael Greene"), a bro in a backward cap started filming Burns on his own smartphone and asked, "What do you do for a living" "Ignore strangers," Burns said "Hey, a stranger's a friend in disguise," the bro replied. "I'm just teasing you. I'm a filmmaker" "Have you made something that I might have heard of?" "Doubtful," Burns said, and scurried away. He stopped at Mercer Street

highlight of this article is ken burns burying a street interview tiktok guy in an early grave www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Update: this was on the floor.

Security camera still of a 3D printer with seemingly nothing on it.

I started a translucent 3D print before I went to bed. It’s supposed to be finished, but I’m pretty sure it’s not this translucent.

As long as they’re not pretending it has anything to do with autism, 🫡

Trying a new thing where I see how far into the day I can go before seeing something upsetting or annoying online.

I’m going strong at two hours and ten minutes right now. Might be personal record.

Deleted Threads, again.

The sheer volume of bots, ragebait and people pretending to be experts (by pasting ChatGPT outputs) is such an enormous bummer.

I’ve had years of good luck with IKEA, but holy shit. This BESTA TV stand is terrible and too large to return.

The hospital knocked $3500 (about 85%) off my ER bill after I withheld payment and badgered them for an itemized invoice over the past eight months.

Weird.

They have Geofencing for arming and disarming alerts, but it only works with one user at a time.

They have motion sensing, but the data isn’t exposed to systems like Home Assistant.

They have package recognition, but only on some cameras.

It’s so half-assed.

The new house we’re renting came with a Ring doorbell and four installed outdoor cameras. Enough that I had to try it out.

Not only does the company do a bunch of sketchy collabs with law enforcement, but the (paid!) system is absolutely useless for anything more advanced than “camera doorbell”.

I DID have Sen Rand Paul stands up for the Constitution and the rule of law on my bingo card! [I had 500 bingo cards printed with different names in the desperate hope that somebody would do it.]

My wife and I are moving house this week, which means I’m uninstalling a bunch of HomeKit light switches and accessories.

Somehow, slowly lobotomizing my house feels bad.

I fuckin loved an emdash.

Saw a license plate frame that said “This is the way.” on the bottom and “THE MANDALORIAN” on top. It reminded me of those bad Halloween costumes from the 80s with plastic masks and the character’s logo on the chest.

Like, just trust that people who care will get the reference.

The original Japanese “Documental” (which is somehow on prime video) is the unhinged, disgusting, gritty grandfather of Last One Laughing. The way they play the game over there is absolutely bonkers.

That’s the realization that flipped me on helmet laws. I don’t care if these people are making their own choices and then spattering into trees, but innocent people need to be protected from the trauma of smooth brains getting on their windshields.

World, stop speeding up footage.

Just because CapCut can do it doesn’t mean you should.

I feel like the richest man in the world turning the 8th biggest website on the internet into a full on Nazi AI chatbot should be a bigger news story. Or a news story at all. Oh well, guess I'm wrong

Comparing Bay Area electricity rates (~$.45/kWh) vs my in-laws’ house ($.30/kWh) and my hometown ($.18/kWh) was my most painful google of the month.

When are we going to bring pitchforks to PG&E?

It’s my second round of Covid. First time since 2023. Being laid out in bed and watching movies is so much more tolerable with Vision Pro.