Daryl Sng

Just landed in SFO on the early morning DC-SFO flight. WiFi on plane stopped working for a few hours and they asked passengers to indicate with the call button who had issues with the WiFi and the whole plane lit up

Most interesting on this chart for me is Ashley, which flips from a mostly boy name in England and Wales to a mostly girl name in the U.S. despite both places sharing a language

RIP. He did almost every male voice in Coyote vs. Acme, as just one small indicator of his talent

Conundrum: my car sometimes auto played Apple Music when CarPlay started up, even though it wasn’t the last thing I listened to. No way to turn it off. After a lot of frustration, I realised I could just set Music to play John Cage’s 4’33” on loop and get glorious silence.

If you’re a Washington Capitals fan who wants a Washington state outline on your fan merch, Fanatics / New Era have just the thing for you

40/42, only missed Whataburger and Golden Corral. 23/42 if I only count those I’ve eaten at more than once

I’m a very conscientious AirBnB guest – I’ll sort all the trash and recycling, wash all the dishes, etc. But I absolutely hated being *told* I had to do it or face a fine.

Car stuck on a wire, I know, I know, it’s serious

Brewers-Rays is the right result. The dominant NL team vs the dominant AL team, each playing for their first franchise World Series win

A really good piece. Peter Hujar is mentioned a few times & I’d add that the cover of Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is Hujar’s “Orgasmic Man”. One piece of art about the AIDS crisis that Harris doesn’t mention is the magnificent “It’s a Sin”, which for me is among the best TV of this century

In Roanoke for work so went to the Mill Mountain Star. The world’s largest man-made star apparently, at least until the boffins at CERN decide to have a go

America, the land of freedom units over metric, has created the Fareedom Zacharia

Brewers vs. Guardians/Rays will be a heck of a World Series

This guy stalked a girl, then ran her and her friend over while they were riding an e-bike, killing them both, then boasted about it on Youtube. The state's response was to pass stringent new regulations on e-bikes. www.nj.com/union/2026/1...

My book club is reading The Brothers Karamazov and our group chat started comparing book characters to Sex and the City characters which led me to write this:

It’s been a while since I did the NYT Sunday crossword in under 9 minutes but today’s was pretty straightforward for me. 8:45

I think I’ll refer to the lack of vowels in my family name as my vowels of silence

Dog apparently nipped off the foot of my kids’ duck night light. Efforts to glue or tape it back together failed for lack of surface area for contact. Even tried to sew it together but that failed. Finally devised a reasonably elegant solution: used a tiny safety pin to hold ducky’s foot together

Just had the lahm bi ajeen from Z&Z - Manoushe Bakery in Rockville and it was delicious. Also enjoyed seeing the owners’ dad (I think) get Employee of the Month for the whole year

Fifth Third Bank is a dumb name for a bank but imagine what the kids would say if it was 1.67 Bank

My teenage son seems to now want to become a doctor and has told his friends, and my wife and I just had a conversation about how we now look like Asian parent stereotypes and how to issue disclaimers that this decision was solely his and his alone

Yesterday’s NYT Connections had a huge hint to the purple category (Greek letters inside phrases) in the top row: DELTA HIDDEN INSIDE MODEL TANK. Bet Wyna loved coming up with that!

My college class group chat was talking about this guy who walked in and delivered a bomb threat during one of our finals and this detail in the news report (by @vermontgmg.bsky.social and Adam Lalley) was funny to think about today - the guy wanted a cell phone to call the police and no one had one