Fnu Lnu

Jane Wickline is brilliant. I'm assuming she wrote the Olympics sketch, but whoever wrote it knows how to write for her.

Wow! Shrinking Season 3 Episode 1 was likely their best episode.

I was thinking the same thing!

I wondered when this was going to happen...

Very cool to make a fully autonomous robot < 1mm in size, but I'm not sure how it's going to unload my dishwasher.

YouTube video by Netflix Queen of Chess | Official Trailer | Netflix

Judith Polgar documentary on Netflix, releasing on February. 6: youtu.be/8pmJgtLKBXg?...

Richard Codey, Former Governor and Long-Serving Legislator, Dies at 79 Richard Codey, a former governor, state Senate president, minority leader and assemblyman with a half-century in the Legislature, has died. Codey was 79.

Former New Jersey Governor Dick Codey died this week. A good man and powerful advocate for his constituents. Rip. montclairlocal.news/2026/01/rich...

I wonder if any countries with teams in the World Cup are planning to boycott or otherwise avoid sites in the USA due to security concerns...

Great names

40 Years Later, This Dark Fantasy Is the Perfect Reminder of How Kids Movies Lost Their Power Movies for kids just aren't as good as they used to be.

I just rewatched Labyrinth twice in the past month, and yes, it's a safe, but scary movie! movieweb.com/labyrinth-40...

For those of you who have watched Stranger Things, you'll realize that this is literally the Upside Down.

(spoiler alert: Stranger Things, S5, Vol 2)... I can believe in the existence of demogorgons and telekinesis more than I can believe that Nancy Wheeler could shoot half a dozen soldiers with a machine gun from a hole in the top of a moving truck while under fire from automatic weapons.

Bax: the most underrated, underplayed, and underappreciated composer of all time. Stands a head above his British contemporaries (Elgar, Holst, V-W, etc.)

ChatGPT Needs More Cowbell AI struggles to write a good jingle.

AI for commercial jingles.. Great piece in The Atlantic: "ChatGPT Needs More Cowbell"... www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Great story about family traditions.

The claim that there was "some magic" in the silk hat placed on Frosty's head is a vast understatement; I contend that it would take an enormous amount of magic to animate a stack of snow spheres.

Instead of calling it a tritone, I think we should call it a sexsemitone. Easier to digest.

If Vivaldi lived on the Equator, we would have never gotten The Four Seasons.

What a cool little story! Rock on. \m/

A lot of wealthy people standing thirty minutes in a line to get a free book that they could afford without really thinking about it. Weird... and yet not surprising at all.

... the ramifications of consolidating all human knowledge and skills into a single point of access is highly analogous to having an mobile, agentic LLM at your fingertips at a moment's notice, which presages an unhappy and ominous future. (2/2)

The creator of Apple TV's "Pluribus" (aka Plur1bus), Vince Gilligan, has said that he conceived of the show a decade ago, but the relevance to today is obvious; (1/2)

Apparently the word "dance" and "table tennis" sound nearly identical in Mandarin, so the automated announcer just told me (in English) that I just listened to Brahms' "Hungarian Table Tennis #5"

Thanks Mikie for running (and winning)! Where do we go if we want to be part of your administration?

Congratulations to my Congressperson, Mikie Sherrill, Governor-elect of New Jersey! @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

The drones are back in New Jersey. This is the second night this week that I've observed large, silent fixed wing drones are flying over northern New Jersey.

Prunella Scales, Sybil on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 93

Fawlty Towers was essentially an ensemble show, and Prunella Scales' Sybil was a key part. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Every Autumn, I keep thinking the Spice Girls should make a comeback, with a new member named "Pumpkin".

October 4, 1950: ⁦‪Snoopy‬⁩ makes his first appearance!

An interesting one is the popularity of the name Alexa. In 2025, it was 32nd but plummeted to 806th last year. I think maybe Amazon had something to do with this? :-)