Reader, Birder, Herper, Guy

The neighborhood gas station apparently did not get the memo and had not bumped their prices up when I went to fill up the Toyota yesterday. Glad the other half of our family fleet is an EV, though.

That’s more giving than the Southwestern chain, Kum n’ Go.

I’m ready to break a window or two just thinking about the average potato chip selection in European grocery stores.

Clarification: Pushups involve raising a glass to your mouth.

And would you guess its flavor is tangy?

More importantly, how do you verify its provenance?

Pervious!

The peak of one of my favorite bands.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

The Frenchies’ record is one of the top sellers on Discogs, which really puzzles me.

Of course.

How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer? How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

"I wanted to replace that 'Hendrix was an alien' narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage."

Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer:

A CD sleeve with a hazy image in shades of red. Tipped 90 degrees and running bottom-to-top is pinkish lowercase sans serif text reading “eliane radigue naldjorlak pour charles curtis - violincelle”

Now playing: Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak CD (2008, Shiin). I got to see Charles Curtis play this in Oakland, and it was incredible. RIP Eliane Radigue. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying

Where’s my time machine?

Smartphone market set for biggest-ever decline in 2026 on memory price surge, IDC says The global smartphone market is poised to suffer its biggest decline ever in 2026, sinking to a more than decade low in shipments, as surging memory chip prices drive up device costs, the Internationa...

What happens when there are falling numbers of devices that can prompt or consume LLM output? www.reuters.com/business/med...

This looks like a scene the kid finds when exploring the hotel in The Shining.

As someone involved in catching enough fraud to drop Rick Scott’s jaw, this is not how it’s done.

Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing Expert birdwatchers have changes in their brain structure compared with novices, which probably help them better identify birds and may even protect against age-related cognitive decline

Forever young! www.newscientist.com/article/2516... #birds #neuroscience

The 800% match is in the volume of texts they will send you.

Somewhere in the Bay Area is the product manager whose defining career moment was bringing social payments to life.

YouTube video by Bessie Jones - Topic Walk Daniel

youtu.be/qJRNncJHYgg?...

Turn Blue Earth Blue.

Bumper Tonsils.

Oh dang.

Okay, you got an audible laugh out of me for that.

Using Vermillion Flycatcher technology? Count me in!

Wildly unhelpful tech trend: take an exam; get some wrong answers, but they do not tell you which questions you missed.

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

Beat me to it!