Andy Ihnatko

And every customer is a repeat customer. They're all going to want orange cones again when the leaves turn green after winter.

Business idea: a service that will go around at the start of Autumn and replace all of a client property's high-visibility orange cones with high-visibility green ones, in the interests of higher visibility when all the leaves are orange.

Ok, I admit that the password to the security cameras on _my_ crown jewel collection is "LOUVRE," too. So maybe I shouldn't be so judgy.

But in my defense, I don't have that word literally on a big sign on my front door. It's a much more oblique choice.

CAKE

I think this exhibit was some sort of art piece. Therefore, I chose to project my perceptions and preconceptions into it. @museumofscience.bsky.social

Yup! I successfully attached myself to one of my favorite shows.

Q: Is there anything more cool than a two-story-tall working Van de Graaff generator?

A: Possibly a two-story-tall working Van de Graaff generator with Elvis Costello performing selections from "My Aim ls True" inside the safety birdcage. Otherwise...no.

Nice guy. Kept asking me if I needed a place to hang up my hat. Big hockey fan.

It's the obligation of an artist to be patient and thoughtful, rather than accept the first furtive flash of inspiration.

(Also, that @museumofscience.bsky.social exhibit is so large that a selfie with my hand up one of the nostrils wasn't really possible. So, to hell with it: I went with "arty.")

Thanks! I've bookmarked this video for later.

Excellent talk and you presented technology very well.

Screenshot of a YouTube player window. The video is entitled "Great ideas start on Mac" and was posted to the Apple official channel. The frame is paused on an image of a MacBook screen, with an empty document. Closed-Captioning is enabled and shows a quote attributed to Jane Goodall: "Every story you love, Every invention that moves you, Every idea you wished was yours, All began as nothing."

A pair of satellite images of the White House. An outline of the footprint of the East Wing shows the site before and after demolition,

The debut of Apple's big "Great ideas start on Mac" campaign happened during the same week as the demolition of the East Wing and the disclosure of Apple's financial contribution supporting it.

I wonder if Apple Marketing regards this as Bad Timing, or _Perfect_ Timing?

My panel/talk at the @museumofscience.bsky.social went great! Why, I felt as though I had the whole world at my back...

Boston peeps! I'm speaking at the Museum of Science Wednesday night. It's a neat event about technology and loneliness, and the panel features some folks I'm keen to speak with.

Admission is free! Reserve a seat here:

www.mos.org/events/subsp...

In legal terms, this mini basketball hoop up on a phone pole is the very definition of an "attractive nuisance." Any sensible person walking by would stop underneath it and pretend to be a Catholic saint. If I'd been hit by a car, the hoop's owner would be held liable for my medical expenses.

And over at the Metropolitan Opera House, mezzo Isabel Leonard is featured as Diana in a special Saturday matinee performance of Donizetti's "Golden Lasso d'amore."

(Okay, sorry! But they're actually performing an opera adaptation of Michael Chabon's _Kavalier and Clay...)

Stay tuned. :)

Wow. This was another of those times then I gave Gemini a prompt and was so pleased with the result that I uttered a grateful profanity.

(This was definitely the first time I've said "I'm very happy with my speaker headshot.")

"Convert this photo to a 1-bit bitmap, using Atkinson-style dithering."

Today's writing output, so far:

2500 word draft to explain a nuanced interplay between technology, government policy, and freedom (roughly two hours)

150 word author bio (roughly an hour)

If I had an iPhone, I wouldn't have had a menu of options to get it working again without either connecting it to a host Mac or taking it to an Apple store.

Rich Siegel: REDEEMER of MIXERS

presented in V I S T A V I S I O N

Photo of an Android phone in "Fastboot Mode." Screen is black except for a list of device data in white lettering, and a menu of options to the upper right.

Screen of an Android phone in its diagnostic mode. Screen is black except for a 3D cartoon of the green Android droid mascot on its back with its "front panel" open.

If you know, you know. And if you know, you know that this indicates I've had a spicy week.

Thanks!

Good eye!

ive been living a lie for the past three or four years and i gotta say i feel much better now that ive gotten that off my chest

FINE I GIVE IN

I'M MIDDLE-AGED AND I CAN READ WHAT'S ON MY MACBOOK SCREEN MUCH MORE CLEARLY NOW THAT I'VE GOT THE "DISPLAYS" SETTING AT ITS "SLIGHTLY LARGER TEXT" OPTION

But I'm still young enough that I only use caps-lock for dramatic effect

Also I can still eat spicy foods after 6 pm

Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2025-09-28 | Comics Kingdom Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from September 28, 2025, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.

Postscript: then I move from my @officialgocomics.bsky.social page to my @comicskingdom.bsky.social page and am reminded, as usual, that @danschkade.bsky.social is an absolute topmost-tier graphical storyteller. This stuff needs to be collected into anthologies.

comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon...

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 28, 2025 | GoComics Read Pearls Before Swine—a comic strip by creator Stephan Pastis—for today, September 28, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

...And when this same Sunday funnies page ALSO happens to have one of those "Pearls Before Swine" strips in which Pig is his awesome self and he puts things into perspective for everybody, that's a hell of a bonus.

www.gocomics.com/pearlsbefore...

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 28, 2025 | GoComics Read Calvin and Hobbes—a comic strip by creator Bill Watterson—for today, September 28, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

…A Sunday with a "Charlie Brown kicks the football" strip AND a "Calvin and Hobbes play Calvinball" strip is an EXCELLENT day…

(Cartoonist friends: we need a comic where Calvin and Charlie Brown play against Hobbes and Lucy in a Calvinball doubles match.)

www.gocomics.com/calvinandhob...

Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 28, 2025 | GoComics Read Peanuts—a comic strip by creator Charles Schulz—for today, September 28, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

A Sunday when there's a "Charlie Brown kicks the football" strip in the funnies is a Very Good day…

www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2025...