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Doom: The Dark Ages (PC) is kind of a mid slog once the novelty wears off. Really long levels with lots of downtime, weapons overlap too much, and the "ride a dragon" interludes get old immediately. I'll finish (6 chapters to go) but can't see myself replaying it as much as the old games.

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What's the best variety of apple? And why is it Honeycrisp?

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7-year-old tried dancing to Darude's Sandstorm and observed, "This sounds like a factory full of broken robots."

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Museday Tuesday: A 30-second composition inspired by a random word. Schoenabatic: (adj.) Like or pertaining to rope walking.

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Etsy Shop Idea: Dated student driver bumper stickers.

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Surprised that this musical collaboration does not yet exist: Imogen Dragons.

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Discovery: Strange Eons: Book 1 by @jajminton.bsky.social is a patchwork quilt of every inspiration and trope you could think of, mashed together with unique style to tell a compelling cosmic horror story. Full review: www.urizone.net/blog/250523

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Whipping open the laptop and smashing that power button, only to realize that the laptop was already on and now it's shutting down.

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Just finished Discovery by @jajminton.bsky.social and had a great ride. This cosmic horror story is jam-packed with esoteric influences and presents a compelling story with ambitious scope and unique style. Full review tomorrow.

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Another day of successfully avoiding this unwanted surprise notification like some sort of right-swiping ninja.

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29 years ago today, I was a high school senior commissioned to write for the Hammond Middle School Band in Alexandria. A countermelody to the school fight song starts alone then plays in parallel, like the Gargoyle theme in Ultima VI. Skip to 05:30 to see me knock the music off a flutist's stand.

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The P in WebP stands for "Please close your download window and seek out a JPG, PNG, or GIF instead."

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Seems like timing-based parry mechanics are all the rage in video games right now. The next Mario Kart should let you parry Blue Shells back at the attacker.

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Next Side Project: Getting the shared family Google Calendar to appear on the fridge with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a 10.1" touchscreen, at half the price point of a Skylight Calendar.

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Kirkland brand toilet paper comes with a bonus roll in every package -- you just have to collect all the papery dust from the regular rolls and build it yourself.

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Shapers of Worlds, Volume V is a great, if sprawling, short story anthology edited by Edward Willett. You're almost guaranteed to find something to love and new authors to follow. Full review: www.urizone.net/blog/250516

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How do Zoomers make mix tapes for their crushes? Is it just AirDropped AAC files all the way down?

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Black Mirror S7E1 (Netflix) is peak Black Mirror. Perfectly cast and written, evoking bleak despair from its realistic near-future what-ifs.

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Puffin Rock may be delightful TV, but it's not so pleasant when it's on in the room above your home office every day and all you can hear is the I-I-I IV-IV-IV bass line ad nauseam.

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Wondering how long clickbait journalism could survive without the phrase, "melts down".

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4-year-old phonetically reading a Tears of the Kingdom strategy guide: "Next time we play, we should go in this ladybirth." Me: "Labyrinth, but close enough."

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Makes me a little nostalgic for planking.

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I'm not running for office this year, but this is where I would start if I ever do: a framework about what matters and how I would make decisions, not a list of checkboxes that pander to a subset of voters. More at www.urizone.net/blog/250507.

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Hot Take: News paywalls are fine because good journalism takes money. Everyone should support at least one primary news source monetarily if they can afford to do so.

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Just had my first MRI experience and it was like being in a live-action performance of one of Steve Reich's tape loop compositions.

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On the Blog -- 26 Years of Amazon transactions, and cutting way back in 2025: www.urizone.net/blog/250505

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AI Startup Idea: A tool that analyzes campaign websites for local elections and ranks candidates based on whether they bought a domain name, how many controversies are in their Wikipedia entry (if it exists), and how many campaign photos show them in a hard hat.

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Finally got around to trying vibe coding but it just wasn't for me. Might like it more if I had another octave.

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Craft Brew Idea: An HTTP Session IPA. Big enough to drink for 30 - 60 minutes and served with cookies.

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The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. Loved the writing and author's skill at conveying tumultuous loyalties and inner turmoil. Not in love with the plot which replaced Book 1's incisive machinations with a meandering road trip of broken people. Full Review: www.urizone.net/blog/250502

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Impressed by anyone who can have a podcast on in the background and not immediately tune it out as noise.

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Ignoring the "Refill Rinse Agent" light like it's 1999.

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