September 2025

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Strongbacks

Back when I went to the Alaska Folk Festival, a real highlight was catching The Strongbacks do their version of sea shanties live on the main stage. I remember a real tear-jerker protest shanty that I’d love to hear again. As fate would have it, I also went to Zig Zag campout this year and […]

Microwaves

Chef’s kiss stuff here from Colin Cornaby: Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. […] We all need to transition to this way of cooking, because clearly this is where the future is going. I expect in a few short years kitchens will be […]

Send a Song

Me: is there like an established good way of sending your friends a song? I feel like I need a spreadsheet of which music service they use. Turns out there are a couple of services for this. But honestly it’s *just* enough of a pain in the ass to do this, particularly on-the-go, that the […]

Flies

Listen, I had some flies in the house. I had a party, it was nice having the doors open, some flies got in, and they apparently set up shop. You can’t just wait them out. They live like a month. Too long. Not to mention I gotta imagine they were having fly sex in their […]