Haunted Robot

Tots and Pears to anyone watching this game in a competitive Senate district

Why are the Chiefs so bad at getting to the QB?

First 5 RPGs played: 1. AD&D 2. Chill (Pacesetter) 3. Champions 4. Marvel Superheroes 5. Cthulhu

The Nuemberg Defense (Superior Orders) goes a little like "I didn't think this was illegal because my boss wouldn't tell me to do something illegal." This defense is "It may have been illegal but I thought you couldn't prosecute me for it." That's worse.

When Gonzo the great said that he was weird in the Muppet Babies cartoon and I realized that that's okay.

My take on this (and I'm sure this is not unique) is that our rationality is only part of our humanity. Our desires, specifically when they cause us to do things that are objectively irrational, are another part. Remember a stupid thing you did for love, or out of anger? That was pretty human.

One of the things I miss most about my hearing is not being able to do pub quizzes anymore. Unless the entire room is deathly quiet, I can never understand the questions. And once people start talking about answers I can't distinguish the useful voices from the background. 🙁

NO GODDAMN IT!

Adobe isn't helping by overloading the UI with AI features.

Saoirse is in an afterschool program, and today she excitedly told me all about the SMART test for evaluating the credibility of information (source, motivation, author, review, two-sources). I can think of a lot of adults who would benefit from this class designed for 4th and 5th graders.

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

Me: Hey Microsoft Word, I would like to open this single document I was working on a couple of weeks ago (double clicks on document) Word: HERE'S FIVE THINGS IT'S IN THERE SOMEWHERE

Every technology people manager, reassuring a new hire: "It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." Every project manager: "Our work is a series of sprints."

www.reddit.com/r/retrogameo... How, as a kid, I always _wished_ to be good at this game

This makes me really happy, KCMO still gets a seat in the house. :-)

So a while ago, the useful tabs control went away from where I liked it in Android Chrome, and moved to someplace dumb. This fix "remove bottom bar" put things right again. piunikaweb.com/2026/08/05/c...

wr’re going to bomb the shit out of the yield curve

Me, realizing that what is going to look like the website for a cool concert venue is actually just the website for a ticket vendor.

For us (also a daughter leaving for college Tuesday) it is her favorite special breakfast. Homemade crepes the morning we send her off.

Googling "electric gloves countermeasures" on a Friday evening www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

Hi! I'm about four French Fries from Wendy's. Maybe eat them one at a time, and maybe not while driving on a two lane road in the middle of nowhere at speed, in traffic!

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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BREAKING: Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have changed to electing state Supreme Court justices, in a win for groups that were concerned the change would impact abortion rights and school funding.

Jimminy Christmas, Fables of the Reconstruction is _such_ a good album. Somewhere near the end it said you can't do this, I said I can...

Got my kiddo to watch Godzilla Minus One and she loved it. Feeling pretty dad-smug

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Adulting protip: the best background for depositing a check by app is the back of a legal pad.

I thought about Ruby Vroom, but this one was a little more polished.