Brian Ward

Salmon lox for lunch really hits the spot. 🥯🤤

We went to Chelan over the weekend! This was the view from our balcony. 😍

This is a PSA to suggest to anybody using a CPAP that you should try turning up the humidity level a couple of notches. Just had the greatest, most refreshing sleep in a long time.

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.

I have one truly great brand idea.

Baseball IS amazing. ⚾️ Sisko was right: youtu.be/dJ33e9BK9…

“It is the unknown that defines our existence.”

SUAREZ!! ⚾️

Mariners better start actually hitting the ball or this season is over. 🤷‍♂️

That pitch to Springer looked and sounded so painful. Hope he recovers fast! 🥺

Yikes. 😬 Where’s Humpy?

Pumped for game 3 – go Mariners! 🔱🫎🐟

MY OH MY!

Solar Winds: The Escape music - Intro

Soundtrack for the day: www.youtube.com/watch 🎶

So it sounds like folks have until October 14th to enroll in extended security updates for Windows 10. On one of my machines I was able to enroll in that without having to pay anything, so it’s probably worth checking to see if you qualify.

I understand what’s happening now. Running winget upgrade triggered an update of the Windows 11 Installation Assistant which noticed I was running 24H2 and not 25H2. This unexpectedly forced an upgrade on my machine as the prompts were opaque. I fucking hate Microsoft.

Got a Windows 11 Installation Assistant update notification today. I have Windows 11 already – actively running. I let it update thinking it will just grab the latest binary. Nope! It actually starts to reinstall Windows 11 while giving me no way to abort. What. The. Fuck. Microsoft! 🤬

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

Great video about America from an international viewpoint: youtu.be/M1QvVnjie…

Reuters: National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders By Emily Schmall, Susan Heavey and Daniel Trotta October 8, 2025 6:47 PM CDT Updated 19 mins ago

Quite the headline. Will be forwarding to everyone who told me I was "overreacting."

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

In follow-up to my post about Windows Update. It continues to gleefully lie to me. I open up a new Settings window and see the Check for Updates button (last checked 23 mins ago). Then it’ll say “You’re up to date” (checked at 10:15pm last night). Then I check again and there’s an update! 🤦‍♂️

*Between bouts of being waterboarded*

Schumer: (Gasp) How is this bringing down the price of beef (glurgle glurgle)

Fortunately once SCOTUS says courts can't stop Trump from sending Texans to kill Oregonians the Democratic leadership will have some strong points about kitchen table issues

Having lunch with my good friend Brian Hodder! 👊🍔

This madness must be stopped.

Have you ever read the first constitution of the United States? This portion of the Articles of Confederation may provide insight as to the context of the second amendment. I just think it’s interesting to note that it provides no provision at all for individual ownership of firearms. 🤷‍♂️

Sleeve's compatibility with the macOS Tahoe betas — Replay Software An update on Sleeve's compatibility with the macOS Tahoe betas.

Apple gleefully breaking shipped App Store apps. It’s still broken right now. Entirely preventable. 🤷‍♂️ replay.software/updates/u…

Had to go into the dungeon under the house to reset the circuit breaker today. Not a fun chore. Intensely disliked. Yeah, so I used to work at a place where we made dungeon crawlers? That doesn’t mean I actually like dungeons in which things are for real crawling around.

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Synergy is unusable on recent versions of macOS. I’m told this is because of issues with network drivers and AirDrop/Handoff. Maybe this is true, but it worked for years with those features existing. 🤷‍♂️ Got fed up and picked up a trial of Duet Display. Seems better supported, but not great.