Spike Grobstein

People are so obsessed with the end result that they don't value the journey to get there. All of the fun and joy of creativity is the act of building the thing, learning and improving your skills.

I wish uber had an option to request cars where drivers don't configure the EV for one pedal driving. This is a recipe for motion sickness.

here's my hot take: the unified search/url bar in browsers was a mistake. several times a day, I accidentally 'search' rather than go to a URL because the bar decides to clear the URL autocomplete right before I press return. or it treats a hostname I type as a search term. or vice versa!

I've wanted a foldable iPhone since before foldable phones were a thing. I think I came up with the want in like 2014. Excited that it's out but curious about the crease. We'll see.

Cmon neovim maintainers. Be better. Fuck, man. Really? So disappointing. github.com/neovim/neovi...

when i reply to your email it will either be within ten minutes or within six years

I miss Swatch Internet Time. It was such a cool concept. I had a little widget in my menubar on my mac and we used it in some of the old Hotline servers to sync up. It was great. Now is as good a time as any to bring it back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_...

Bobert's Law number 31: "You're never smarter than you are on the last day of your old job. You're never dumber as on the first day of your new job."

Quake is for everyone.

@streetsajed.bsky.social

Happy 30th anniversary to id Software's three-dimensional nightmare shooter Quake

I feel like if Liquid Television were available on a streamer it would become a major cult classic/revisit favorite immediately.

Of course I bought a bunch of ubiquiti cameras and my cloud gateway doesn't support Protect so I can't use them with this hardware.

Look what I just got.

If you're single in San Francisco and you make $117,700 or less, I have some bad news: you technically qualify as low income!

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@streetsajed.bsky.social

@electriccrowbar.8n1.sh every single time I see something you repost, I think "oh man. I'm gonna post this on the discord. Rob would get a kick out of it" and then I see that it was you who reskeeted. Every time.

Just downgraded my Netflix plan to the base ad-free plan. It's not worth paying like $28/mo for only slightly better quality. It's almost not worth $20/mo for the low-effort content they have.

"Put a P on it" is an item aesthetic that you see throughout the Super Mario games, but it actually began in a prerelease version of the original Super Mario Bros. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/who-put...

We, as a society, need to use "homunculus" more, as an insult.

My surfers? Butthole

Danzig Lamb of God Queens of the stone age Mr bungle Kyuss Mindless self indulgence Mastodon Weird Al Primus New kids on the block

My last week in music.

My last week in music (another test post)

My last week in music

The passion of the Christ, if you know what I mean. 😏

Today calls for some good ol' escapism.

12 months of listening.

Got a new tattoo while in Iceland because I have no self control.

My pickup from the Portland retro gaming expo this weekend. I'm filling in the gaps in my handheld collection.

Got ys for master system and it works on the analogue mega sg!

One of my favorite games of all time. It combined everything I liked about prince of Persia with just amazingly weird character design and minimalist story, all the while pushing the limits of what the ps2 could do, technically. So good.

I tried to make fingerling potatoes on the grill. Found a recipe online that said to do the foil pouch thing. Oil, salt, pepper, garlic, stick on grill for 20 minutes. 40 minutes later and they're barely cooked but nice and crispy on the bottom. Total failure. Had to throw them out.

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In other news, I kinda wish smart phones would bring back the scroll wheel. It doesn't need to be a physical wheel; it can be a trackpad like thing. I just find that scrolling results in me inadvertently selecting text or clicking links too often.