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I'm a programmer, a Kentuckian, a veteran, and a progressive. I helped send a spaceship to the moon.
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Shedeur Sanders sounds like a name from "Dune."

The drummer in Lynyrd Skynyrd doing a solo album: "Be a cymbal kind of maaaa-aaaaan."

René Magritte, 1929:

I vibe-coded a thing* today, and it went pretty well. *PDF table extracter

The advice "If you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon crawl" is just not generally applicable.

RIP to a legend.

We've got a massive email chain going organizing a thing on Friday, the email subject of which is "Wednesday."

Moon economy on brink of global precession.

I don't think we should let someone named "Garland Hale Barr IV" go by the name "Andy."

[Watching "Gladiator" on my car's dashboard] "Are you not infotained?"

Hey, is this me being a crackpot?: When I see someone email from their official email address, and their signature is "Get Outlook for iOS," it feels pretty unprofessional. Is that just me being a total loser nerd, or is it a real thing?

Amy McGrath in a well-produced two minute campaign launch video where she shows a letter from a priest saying that a woman can't be the Pope: "We'll see."

Sinners (2025)

Jean van de Velde on 18 at Carnoustie on Sunday:

Try as they might, the Trump admin will never be able to extinguish the light of knowledge and pursuit of science

This is terrific!

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

to tune of "Runnin With the Devil": "Bucc-in With De Beppo"

I think a good sign of a life well lived is that when you die, they play Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's "Like a Rock" at the funeral, and everybody agrees that it's a good choice.

I have successfully implemented the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems File Delivery Protocol (Acknowledged Transmission Mode).

Bruce Springsteen, "The River," live version (with story):

Too bad the timing didn't work out for me to get some Catholic Pope/Mark Pope parlays going.

The pope is actually chosen by the electoral college of cardinals, not by the pope-ular vote.

If I were the Pope, I would've worn this helmet to my meeting with OSU superfan J.D. Vance.

RIP Francis. Made the church better. Made the world better. What more can we ask of anyone?

"I'm seein' double! Four Michael B. Jordans!" -My review of the film "Sinners"

Explaining Trumpworld to the boys in the group chat by telling them that they're doing a Jontay Porter situation with the White House.

He is risen

YOUTH PASTOR: "He is rizzin'. He is rizzin', indeed."

Captain's log, supplemental,

“Dammit,” Blink-182 (1997).

I have a bunch of nieces and nephews, none of whom read books regularly. So for every single birthday and Christmas, Uncle David buys them a toy and a book. And today, for the first time in the decade I've been doing this, one of 'em has read the book and reported that they love it.

Rolling Stone review of Daft Punk’s Homework, 1997

Thirty years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.