Duke Skyloafer

Been working on my new stand-up routine. So far it's gone over well, particularly when my knee and back hurt from sitting too long.

February 1999 issue of MacAddict magazine, the “special pirate issue”

One thing I love about traveling to my parents’ house is that my dad keeps a rotating roster of old MacAddict issues in the bathroom for you to read instead of your phone

Popplio, a Pokémon

My son just told me he was confused because he thought the Catholic Church just elected the Pokémon Popplio as its leader

Sometimes I think about how the people who founded Hogwarts could have named it anything

Just sitting here thinking about how in the Elder Scrolls universe, the ability to light someone else on fire is like the easiest spell to learn. Children could do it. That’s the world they live in.

I was losing hundreds of dollars a month buying food for my family. Now we’re essentially not eating anymore. Therefore, I’m saving hundreds of dollars. It’s very simple.

Can't recall ever being thankful for having to replace an appliance, but I am so incredible glad that my 20 year old washing machine finally died and we were able to replace it before tariffs kicked in. It was the last major appliance that came with the house and hadn't yet been replaced.

As I grow older, it becomes clearer and clearer every day that I have missed my window to become Spider-Man.

This is hilarious both because the main fear of AI is that it replaces…art… and also because VCs could just be replaced by regular algorithms, they don’t even need AI.

Apple watchOS change notes including “Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaner”

Took me a little too long to figure out what “Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaner” meant. My old robot vacuum sucked (no pun intended) and I thought maybe it wasn’t matter-compatible.

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice.

He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.

It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

Imagine not only going through life not ever hearing anyone mention "groceries," but also not having a single friend or family member who cares enough to tell you to stop talking about how much you never have to think about groceries.

I have learned from my daughter, after a brief embarrassment, that k-pop is not short for Kellogg’s Corn Pops.

I'm not "unskeptically accepting misinformation," I'm "building a personal canon."

Like when the LLM that runs Google Search said that the programming language "python" was created by "Pyrus Thonberg." I knew that was definitely wrong, but now I choose to believe it is correct.

I have doubts this maternity ward origin is canon since it appears to come from a magazine and not the show.

When I say that you can’t just ignore AI until it goes away because it won’t just go away (like NFTs), my purpose is to motivate people to regulate it, not to just accept it as inevitable.

True story:

I asked my daughter what letter is between D and F.

She counted on her fingers and said 7.

I shook my head. This is why we need more E-learning days.

If you make a gesture that is not intended to be a Nazi salute but is so close that people can’t tell the difference, you’re either a moron who doesn’t know how to avoid doing a Nazi salute, or you’re doing it on purpose because you know some people will see it as a Nazi salute, and you want that.

The last video I saw on TikTok before it abruptly stopped was someone explaining how creators can download all their videos. Unfortunately the process takes hours to days to complete.

TikTok right now is nothing but people saying goodbye and talking about how much the platform changed their lives, uplifting and depressing at the same time

“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” or RUD is based on a military term that goes back to the 1960s, and is not something Musk or SpaceX made up to cover their explosion. Musk does like to use it a lot though.

Transformers Legacy United G1 Universe Optimus Prime (yes, that’s its full name) in robot mode without any stickers.

Transformers Legacy United G1 Universe Optimus Prime (yes, that’s its full name) in robot mode with Toyhax stickers.

Transformers Legacy United G1 Universe Optimus Prime (yes, that’s its full name) in truck mode without any stickers.

Transformers Legacy United G1 Universe Optimus Prime (yes, that’s its full name) in truck mode with Toyhax stickers.

Sometimes you get a cool Transformer but you need to zhuzh it up with some 3rd party stickers

[Bruce Banner changing the gamma on his TV to the lowest setting]: This looks terrible

when i was a few minutes younger i thought it was 9:33 a.m. eastern time. and maybe at one point, that was the case. but part of growing older is finding enough humility to let go of some of the things you once held as true

When my dad texts and says he needs to talk to me about a 64 bit driver set, it’s like a 50/50 chance he wants to talk about screwdrivers or Linux.

Yeah Marvel Rivals is pretty fun

Particularly amusing because actually neither Trump nor Musk are president yet

So funny thing about this. There are variations of this meme going back for many years, and I just happened to choose randomly the one that says “by Luigi,” which dates back to at least 2022, and I posted this before we knew his name.