Brian Uri!

Sugar, S1: Every time John Sugar checks in with Jonathan Siegel, he should greet the man with, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?"

Just placed 14th globally in the first 3-part puzzle of the 2026 Everybody Codes event. A fun warmup puzzle to kick things off!

Instead of cleaning out the playroom this Fall, just rake the mess into a corner. This is better for the environment and promotes the incubation of next year's children.

Really need to talk to my HOA about how this full moon is keeping me up at night.

This IPA goes to 11...%. Seems unnecessary.

Instead of cleaning out the playroom this Fall, just rake the mess into a corner. This is better for the environment and promotes the incubation of next year's children.

Enough with the Ocarina of Time remake. Where's my Betrayal at Krondor remaster?

Does No Kings include monarch butterflies?

Stumbled upon a really nice review of my 26-year-old text adventure game, Augmented Fourth, which makes me giddy about the fact that people are still enjoying what was essentially my excuse for skipping college math classes. Review: www.filfre.net/2025/12/huge... Game: www.urizone.net/aug4.uri

Just passed a $4.09 sign and exclaimed, "Wow, that's cheap!"

Classy cartoon from the 9-year-old.

Smashing that Like button, not because I'm enthusiastic, but because I'm in my 40s and have too many calluses for this touchscreen.

Whenever I'm lazy and use a Boolean to represent 2 states, it guarantees that I will someday have to rewrite the code to support more states. Latest occurrence was this morning, on code that had only needed 2 states for 8 years.

Love Nov/Dec, when my productive schedule devolves into a bog of puzzles: - 10/26: Everybody Codes, 20 three-part coding puzzles released every weekday. - 11/13: Puzzle Boat 13, 150+ puzzlehunt puzzles from @foggybrume.bsky.social. - 12/1: Advent of Code, 12 two-part coding puzzles from @was.tl.

Maybe we should bring some open-world to college football instead. The field is 400x200yds, you can do the downs in any order, and the goalposts are splashed with glowing paint so the kicker can aim better.

Rotating art around the house to exploit the seasonal changes in room lighting. This one is "Rock Paper Scissors" by @curious3d.bsky.social.

Watching Dark Matter S2E8 and now I need a Dayo Okeniyi / Margo Martindale buddy comedy in my life.

The winter sun illuminates my monitor and I think, "I should really clean those smudges off". Then the sun goes behind a cloud and I keep working. Repeat daily.

Chainguard's justification for their Prisoner's Dilemma decision to release a PHP fix before the rest of the group. The jury's opinions are... mixed. Trigger Warning: LinkedIn.

31 years ago today: The TC Williams Homecoming Parade. I'm marching backwards through Bradlee shopping center and conducting Louie Louie. Band director, Richard Dill, in the cozy red sweatshirt in the back. TC beat Annandale 39-20 (but 6 years later they'd lose to Robinson at Homecoming, 6-56).

Sitting in a doctor's office waiting room and I've heard the TV say "pneumococcal" more in the last 5 minutes than in my entire lifetime.

Got fired from my job for saying that PHP 5 ought be enough for anybody.

You Can See Everything is about trying on old summer clothes after a long winter.

Waiting for Burger 21 to release the Peppermint Patty burger.

Enjoying Pluribus, S1, seven episodes in. Like all Vince Gilligan shows, some of the scenes run self-indulgently long. However, the cinematography, framing, and camera work is always really visually satisfying.

Current mini game: Finding the perfect minute to depart in order to optimize my commute through the bus routes of two neighboring school districts.

"Disavow" makes it sound like we're in a 90s CRPG where all the dialog choices lead to the same ending.

Rosalina keeps negging Princess Peach as "your special one" (in colored text no less), leading me to believe that either Peach is a few cards short of a full deck, or Rosalina and Peach are massively feuding.

This satellite image of a local data center looks like my Satisfactory world after I unlock coal power.

Just learned that Electric Guest released a 4th album last year, and it's pretty good so far.

"Computer Science" internship at PEPCO in the 90s. The first three days, I had no computer and spent the day sorting mail and reading fly ash manuals. Quit the morning of the 4th day.

Puzzlehunt Trek #16 is open for solving at puzzlepeak.net -- 6 new solo-friendly puzzles for a grand total of 110. I'm hoping to write at least one more Trek before the end of 2026 as long as I don't get too distracted by upcoming events (Puzzle Boat 13, Everybody Codes, and Advent of Code)!

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer for Tax Purposes

Epic Games Store: An escrow account that keeps games safe until you can buy them on Steam.

Dave Matthews trying for a banger: "I'm going under... OVER YOU!" *eyebrow waggle*

Measure career growth by how many layers of indirection you can insert between yourself and the actual hard work.

10 minutes into episode 1 of Pluribus, the stream silently reset back to the beginning. I then thought it was going to be a show about time travel or multiverses until I realized that the UI had bugged out.

Throwback to one of my best original compositions (Sep 2017), the culmination of 7 years of music degrees.

These English muffins are "fork split" which means I jam my thumb into them and make a mess.

Wayside Farm in Berryville hosts a great Fall activity. Mostly affordable, not crowded, massive corn maze, slides, animals, apple cannons, pig races, and gourds dropped from such great heights.

Struggling to push through James SA Corey's The Mercy of Gods. So far, it feels sterile and obligatory, like a story idea hoping for a TV option.

They should invent a Safeway with good produce.

A feature I really appreciate about the Bluesky UI: No matter how deep down the rabbit hole I go (clicking through profiles, replies, tags, and links), I always easily get back to exactly where I left off in the original feed.

Business idea: VISIGOTH, a reflective safety vest for goths crossing the street at night.