: I was today years old when I learned that Minnie Riperton is Maya Rudolph’s mother: …
: Played around with Yay.Boo this morning. I think the URLs are self explanatory? date.yay.boo …
: I picked up an iPad Mini. I plan for it to be a thoughtful consumption device. NetNewsWire, Matter, …
: The Ticketmaster four ticket limit is really a bummer for a family of five.
: Oh, I finally broke down and ordered an iPad Mini. That means a new announcement is imminent!
: Some good stuff hitting the Good Enough printer. Thanks, @jthingelstad! 😆
: Giving Panic’s Nova for Ruby on Rails development a try, so far with the Ruby on Rails …
: I adored Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King. That makes this story especially disappointing. Sure, make …
: Surprised myself in self-discovering that at most times if I’m alone I’d rather watch a …
: Janelle Monáe was very good. Glad to have seen her live.
: Quite an interesting project: Postmarks single-user bookmarking website.
: Basically every radio station is playing Fast Car and We Didn’t Start the Fire. Welcome to …
: I still go to smile.amazon.com.
: I love going to concerts. There’s one I want to see tonight. I have tickets to Janelle Monáe …
: Wishing Steven Wilson had a mailing list in addition to an RSS news feed. (Unless I’m missing it?) I …
: Rue Saint-Paul dans le Vieux-Montréal.
: Musée de l’Illusion Montréal.
: Pizza in Little Italy in Montréal.
: I love you Canada. I love you CF Montréal. But this is a crime against nature.
: Ready for the lights and organs. Basilique Notre-Dame a Montréal.
: Throwing it back in time tonight.
: Japanese nail houses: lonelyrobottheme.substack.com/p/japanes… Interesting in light of the …
: Just passed The Many Masks of Andy Zhou by Jack Cheng to my seventh grader. If you have a middle …
: TIL: Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) played drums on Dua Lipa’s Break My Heart.
: Not an active threat Last night there were gunshot wounds at a White Sox game in the third inning, and two women were hit …
: Hey, y’all, I got my first Apple Music Discovery Station recommendation!
: I like to track the concerts and musicals I go to on Album Whale. Most the time I even write about …
: Apparently the voice of Mario is stepping away from the role. This is his actual website: …
: I’m starting to wonder if no one has ever actually gotten a Time Machine backup server to work …
: Remember the Photo Blog, inspired by @skoobz and @jthingelstad.
: New Wong, y’all! Cory Wong - The Lucky One.
: The latest Good Enough Newsletter includes a link to receive a mailing of A Good Enough Zine. Please …
: Looking forward to Manu’s People and Blogs
: This is five years old, but I just ran into it and it’s fascinating: Last of the Iron Lungs.
: I wrote about fixing things. I’m not entirely sure why, but I wrote about it!
: I would like to see notes from the Gmail design meeting where they decided to plop a “mark as …
: I just ran into Zara Larsson for the first time. My goodness, what pop music! Zara Larsson, Tove Lo, …
: I accidentally transposed numbers in our PO Box when registering for informed delivery. It all went …
: Honestly, if you’re a Floyd fan I recommend Brit Floyd. First time and the music and light show was …
: A smokey night at Brit Floyd.
: Spent the morning listening to the Minnesota All-State bands, one including my daughter. As always …
: I wrote a blog about City Pop. Perhaps you’re curious?
: Ooo, that’s concerning that Bear blog’s RSS is read as invalid by Micro.blog. @help ?
: Barry: Amazon, please ship my two deodorants as slow as you want in order to save on boxes. Amazon: …
: This is the week I learn to get myself to sleep at night. (Please!)
: Into the Woods at the Guthrie.
: Anyone know if reverse captcha is still a thing? (A hidden field that should always be empty, but …
: A sadly limited list of theaters showing Oppenheimer in 70mm IMAX.
: The downside of leaving for 17 days is it seems like some stuff just stops working without use. My …
: We’re home. And we’re ready to go back. 🇯🇵❤️🇰🇷
: Airport transport arrives in an hour. One last sit in Seoul. Gwanghwamun Square.
: Last full day of the trip. See my prior post for the great start to the day - seeing where our …
: Two of our nephews were adopted from South Korea and today we were able to visit the orphanage where …
: Quite a day in Seoul. Walked through the Gyeongbokgung Palace grounds and Bukchon Village in hanbok; …
: Travel day to our last stop of the trip. We got some Seoul time in tonight.
: Fuji-san eventually cooperated as we canoed around Uno Island with our excellent guide.
: Lights of the nighttime hikers on Mt. Fuji. (3-second exposure.)
: The sting of leaving Togari is alleviated a bit after a travel day to a room with this view.
: Wasabi chips are kind of amazing.
: Some tears as we leave Rich, Meike, and Togari. 🥲
: One more from last night of me and Takuya nailing Aerosmith.
: Ended the night singing karaoke with the locals. Or as the kids said, “making a core memory.”
: Visiting a minka (traditional Japanese farmhouse) under renovation to become a restaurant.
: Today…was unbelievable. We climbed a mountain with the neighborhood, who open the shrine up once per …
: It’s bedtime in the storehouse.
: Asahi in Togari, Iiyama, Japan.
: When in Kanazawa one must have gold leaf ice cream.
: Hmm, looks like micro.blog photo posting is not working quite right… might drop like 5 posts on you, …
: Travel day today. Hitching a ride, Omi-Cho market, when in Kanazawa one must have gold-leaf ice …
: Today we were attacked by Nara deer, visited “big” Buddha at Todai-ji (including practicing cleaning …
: Today was a low-key break day. Walked to downtown Kyoto via Kamo River, hit the department store …
: We had a fabulous bike ride around Kyoto, seeing Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavillion), rice fields, and the …
: Today we said goodbye to Tokyo, rode the Shinkansen to Kyoto, visited Kiyomizu-dera, walked in the …
: Today we learned the way of the ninja, ran into an unexpected festival, gathered around the tiny …
: I grew up on the Metrodome, so this is absolutely mind bending.
: Stationary shopping, Ginza walking, Sensō-ji Temple visiting, people watching, Skytree seeing, tuna …
: Pretty pretty pretty good start to Tokyo.
: Leaving for Japan tomorrow. A friend sent me this helpful “intro to summer” video to …
: In 4 days we head on vacation to Japan and South Korea. We are beyond excited, and a little anxious. …
: Writing elsewhere - I wrote about how we built Quack (Beta).
: Writing elsewhere - I wrote about why we built Quack (Beta).
: Have you ever simply wanted to post some markdown to the internet and receive a link to a …
: Achy Breaky Heart reached a higher peak on the Billboard pop charts than Smells Like Teen Spirit.
: Sometimes I pull rabbits out of hats as a dad, but I don’t think magicking Taylor Swift …
: I dislike throwing things away. Do I spend $80+ (and time) replacing the main board of a 10-year-old …
: I can just share this when people ask what we’re doing right now at Good Enough: …
: Looking around, it both feels like America doesn’t care to drive regular cars anymore and America …
: Let the fast and furious marching band season begin!
: We got more than we bargained for at the Twins game last night!
: Finished reading: Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch 📚 Pretty, pretty, pretty good!
: I probably haven’t officially asked here as I’m not very comfortable publicizing myself… …
: So here’s the question. If I want to search for a place real people are talking about, say, …
: The Apple Watch feature that I want is automatically recording outdoor walks omg.
: I find this to be amazing. Needless to say I haven’t watched much of my Twins in the past …
: Colleague Lettini’s addiction has me wanting to hop into Tears of the Kingdom.
: Gonna try getting more “engaged” into socials (Twitter, Mastodon) via our Good Enough accounts. Wish …
: Wheel surgery. (Crew Outfitters rollerblade wheels.)
: Who showed me this? I don’t remember, but looks like a fun daily practice. vole.wtf/daybrix/
: I wrote about the surprises inherent in working with the Good Enough remote team: …
: This is quite the combination of Wi-Fi networks.
: Ah, the time honored tradition of not passing your driver’s test for obscure happenstance. …
: Oh, and here’s our latest Good Enough Newsletter. Sign up if you’d like to keep updated …
: Whelp, we used ChatGPT to write our mission statement and I’m pretty happy with the results: …
: I’m in the process of trying to move from a consumption mindset to more of a creation mindset across …
: You know if Obsidian Publish supported RSS it might become my homepage, blogging, and microblogging …
: I would like a Bluesky invite, but I think only to claim my typical username Just in Case ™.
: Lots of Frank Lloyd Wright today.
: That moment when you buy the official $$$s Apple cable only to see constant “cable HDCP blah blah …
: Heading to Chicago in a couple of hours for a short, short visit. If you have any recs for a family …
: Today feels like the first day of spring for us here in southern Minnesota. Sad that it’s late, but …
: Related to my recent posts, for the foreseeable future I’m going to try blogging at Bear Blog …
: My default setting is to ideals. Ironically, it’s not “good enough.” I can set ideal decision making …
: I ran into a very insightful suggestion on a podcast recently. It was related to those of us trying …
: About a year ago I wrote about my HTML-only blog, but I’m giving Bear Blog a try now. Not having a …
: The true history of the world is the history of great conversations. – Peter Dinklage as Tyrion …
: That was pretty good. Hiatus Kaiyote.
: I did a bit of a blog over at Good Enough. This was basically written 6 weeks ago. I probably should …
: After yesterday’s (surprising) undefeated day at World robotics, the team had a (surprising) …
: FIRST robotics championships, Houston.
: You know how hikers have the “leave no trace” mantra? That, but for public restrooms.
: I got to push the big red button. #loldesign
: I have a lot of good memories of the ol’ Netflix queue.
: I was reminded (thanks @JohnPhilpin) that my old blog posts mostly have broken images. I found an …
: I’ve never been able to form the habit of taking daily notes in a notebook or a digital …
: I’m trying the Arc browser again. I think I’m finally starting to get it now. (And I …
: It fascinates me that BDG (for those in the know – I’m not one of those in the know), the …
: Love this found footage. Pink Floyd 1975!
: I ran into thehtml.review for the first time and plan to peruse it soon. Interesting!
: An ode to the airport bathroom A place Where your paper towel Goes in the urinal Did you walk back …
: Just talked to Chat GPT for a bit. I asked it to write a blog in Sinatra (Ruby). Progressively I …
: This is sorta so so: mobile.twitter.com/BEASTMODE… But then you get to: …
: I’m close to the “build my own site generator in Ruby” stage of my blog. Probably inspired by barf. …
: The Last of Us on HBO was outstanding. Now to re-play the game or move straight to The Last of Us 2, …
: I like to print articles from time to time in order to read them on paper. I wish macOS’s …
: I was today years old old when I realized Lumbergh is also Kent Davison (Veep).
: I had totally forgotten about the game Hard Hat Mack. Every few years one of those games I played …
: My phone is randomly restarting throughout the day, variably saying my phone has a normal amount of …
: Let’s see what everyone is going on about.
: Very interesting and has me thinking. Thinking. https://craigmod.com/essays/memberships_year_four/
: A little more about what we’re trying to accomplish with Good Enough: …
: It’s fun to send out a newsletter and find that people are getting Gmail suspicious link …
: I’m a Mac person. Anyone doing most of their PC gaming via GeForce Now? Share your setups! 🕹️ …
: We bought a Mazda CX-5. Its actual-button touch screen controls make every other car touch screen …
: Over the years I’ve always kept my mobile browser tabs to about 100. Every few months I’d go through …
: Sadly I can not unsubscribe. It’s nice to constantly be bombarded with examples in the world …
: What a weird way to announce the elimination of a free tier. If I’m gonna pay someone for …
: Just watched Marcel the Shell. One daughter is still emotional after the movie, which we finished 20 …
: I love that the MN DNR has a climate journal back into history. There’s a legacy journal as …
: How weird am I? I own Pisces Iscariot, but not Siamese Dream. 🎵
: And what is love in the end? Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness …
: I’ve been told I’m old school when it comes to internet politeness. What do you think - cool to …
: Yes, /now pages clearly need a /then analog.
: I just came to the epiphany that my personal /now page updates could also be a personal newsletter …
: I’ve never really used a library for authentication or authorization in Rails. Thinking this …
: Was about to order a book last night, but then I searched my email and found I had ordered it a year …
: The Last of Us episode 5 was sure a gut punch.
: Not an inspiring set of phone number pointers from our log-processing service. (And, no, when I …
: Someone on our team posted Album Whale across 5 or 6 subreddits Friday and suddenly we have a bunch …
: Wow, Scott’s Cheap Flights picked up the going.com domain? Wonder what that cost? …
: This advice from my past self just “cost” me 60-90 minutes. Find Bugs Once and the Joy …
: [T]here is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write …
: This Hogwarts Legacy review is 9 out of 10, but it sure reads like a 7 or 8 review. Think I’ll …
: I just assume all resources that claim to teach the basics of marketing will be bad. Like they …
: I have some photo scans from the 1960s, most of which have severely degraded coloring. Some washed …
: Over 300 tabs open on my phone. I now have a goal to remove 5 per day (close and note them down …
: If we want to put @goodenough on Mastodon, what instance is a good fit? I’m thinking companies …
: I’ve been reading the short stories that Robin Sloan has available on the Internet. Two that …
: Fresh computer install means that I’ve found some new software to smooth out my daily. …
: Spent an hour trying to Google “I want to point a subdomain at a simple photo ‘streaming’ and/or …
: A good little rundown of software engineering things that are learned from experience. 💻
: The person who signed up for Amazon with my secondary email address has finally figured out they …
: Are there any “small business”y competitors to the Google app suite? We’d like to …
: Pleasantly surprised to see that Hiatus Kaiyote are coming to perform in the area in April. In the …
: Pretty excited about the latest Album Whale update: list formatting options. Since we’re …
: Where do you keep your electronic documents? I like to have a copy (scan/download) of all the …
: Finished reading: The Night In Question: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Tobias Wolff 📚 A …
: Just turned on auto deploy for our @goodenough apps. Feels uncomfortable, but going to live in that …
: See, this is why Bandcamp is nice. We’ve always loved their embed styling as compared to the …
: Mexican meatballs tonight were a hit. This is pre “rolling around in sauce.”
: Anyone here work with a small team and not use the Google Suite for collaboration? What do you use …
: Hmm, what if we ( @goodenough ) decided to make a 2023 version of StumbleUpon?
: Knowing how bad some picture books are, I think something like this could take off: AI storybook …
: My first Enzoni - highly recommended. And I made killer pizza tonight. Win-win!
: Realizing that I can’t turn on Apple end-to-end encryption because we maintain a lot of older …
: Excited that we’ve been able to add Bandcamp support to Album Whale. For you Micro.blog folks, …
: Surprising my 15-months-ago self, I got some books out of storage.
: I have acquired a mild Fortnite addiction thanks to my kids. Good thing is we’re having fun playing …
: My good friend, Nate, has started a newsletter about theology and R-rated movies. He plans on …
: I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota, yet I just heard the phrase “All boots, no cattle” for the …
: Finished reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Didn’t enjoy this as much as Mr. Penumbra’s. …
: Why Not Mars (Idle Words) - an interesting takedown of the manned Mars mission.
: Happy New Year to those who celebrate.
: Heading to friends for our first normal NYE in a few years. Taking a break from cocktail mixing for …
: Last year’s unexecuted ideas mean I have two expiring domains that I’m going to have …
: Perhaps Teabag Style walking will be the 2023 health fad?
: What happens happens. And then we are gone. Author withheld because spoilers.
: Let’s all sign up. Let’s all blog! Bring Back Blogging.
: Speaking of logging in all the time, I have two different Apple TVs that daily are asking me to …
: Whenever I need to visit a web service I feel like I spend 25% of my time authenticating and …
: Finished reading Project Hail Mary: A Novel yesterday. The first half was a bit slow for me to work …
: At least we’ll always have “Plaid, Inc. Privacy Litigation Settlement Administrator has …
: The little guys win again: “Equifax Breach Settlement Fund has sent you $5.21 USD.”
: Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Carrie Fisher I …
: I am done littering Fosstdon with my non-FOSS posts. Find me @bjhess@social.lol now!
: I know we bag on the Apple Music app a lot, but, man, has Calendar never been fully cooked. The …
: omg.lol account procured. Now to determine if I’m going to move my Fosstodon/Mastodon account over …
: I’ve had a standing desk that’s only been standing + stool-leaning for a decade. I think …
: I see omg.lol prices are going up next year? I should probably jump in and support the weird web.
: It’s nice to have a designer friend to help you out. Though we do have to tighten this up.
: Rails TIL. In Rails 7 you need to render with a status code in order for Flash.now to appear. …
: Just spent five minutes experimenting with adding things to Todoist via Apple Watch & Siri. Just …
: Starting the week with more RSS feed hacking. Let’s see if progress is made.
: A couple web form things I’ve never seen before.
: Reading the first 2/3s of Robin Sloan’s Year of New Avenues has me excited! Getting the word …
: Using render.com, we don’t get much in the way of log retention or searchability. Any service …
: Had an intresting conversation with a friend today, which included his statement that the WALL-E …
: Just pushed my All Time Favorites list out to Album Whale. This is a small portion of the eventual …
: Countdown to Red Hot Chili Peppers (and The Strokes) pre-order. I should really think of a budget …
: Read No Time Like the Future by Michael J. Fox 📚 Two MJF bios in one year seems like a bit much. I …
: I feel like every time there is a day I try to stay tech free, some random event puts me back on the …
: Not that I know soccer, but… It looked hopeful at times, but US just doesn’t have the passing …
: So I have this idea. What if there were a service that combined your consumed things into one feed. …
: Lots of lists have come through the past couple of days on Album Whale. Big thanks to the Micro.blog …
: Album Whale is open for signup! We’re just getting started and discovery features are on the …
: Also read Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein 📚
: Read Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 📚 The right book, exactly. At exactly …
: Launching Album Whale this week. As it will launch with very few features, I think I’ll use a new …
: Doing some video processing (I take them off of iCloud and put them on my NAS for easy family Plex …
: A few days until this little creation becomes useful to my community again: www.owatonnaparking.com
: What do you think happens when you click on this in macOS’s Apple Music?
: Last mild day for the fall, so I went for a walk.
: I turned on Apple Photos shared library to share photos with my wife. I’m always nervous, so I have …
: I’m thinking of getting a MacBook Pro when the next cycle is unleashed. 2023? Main reason is …
: If you’re consistent, I guess this’ll happen to everyone who plays daily. Wordle 505 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
: I need to fire up an email sending service for an app I’m building. Mailgun is probably more …
: Amazon Prime says: More ad-free music, increasing from 2 million to over 100 million songs in …
: I turned on importing my Letterboxd posts into micro.blog, but I think its just a bit too loud. I …
: Black Adam, 2022 - ★★★ Do I have to rate these things? I dunno. Don't love rating things! I tend to like The Rock. Lots of …
: No No: A Dockumentary, 2014 - ★★★★ I've always been a big baseball fan, so this interested me more than most. The LSD no hitter was …
: Passing on my concert love to my middlest and her good friend. 🎵
: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, 2016 - ★★★★ This was an interesting watch for me. I've heard my parents and aunt talk about Debbie Reynolds a …
: Hocus Pocus 2, 2022 - ★½ I read a review about this movie that compared this and the original to a Disney …
: Gonna try to turn on the letterboxd-micro.blog connection now. Sorry in advance for any mistakes I …
: Last night. Rachel Eckroth with my honey. 🎵
: It’s been well over 18 months and I don’t think I’ll ever figure out this vehicle’s battery …
: Based on tonight’s online liquor order, this will be my first ever winter of cocktails. (Like …
: Did you know Flea has studied jazz trumpet performance?
: I feel bad, but I had no idea that They Might Be Giants’ “Istanbul (Not …
: It was Detroit style night. I like it too much.
: Last minute date with myself.
: My view most days and why I invest in home audio. With winter coming I only grow more thankful. The …
: So if I add a new feed to micro.blog as “Add posts to Micro.blog timeline”, will it only …
: Read: Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang 📚 This was really …
: Related to my post about the pretty album thing we’re working on, I share with you Shfl. …
: Related to my previous posts about album search, we’re getting somewhere. Certainly more to …
: Related to finishing Four Thousand Weeks, I’m pretty excited that my my Kindle highlights came …
: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚 Yeah, that was good. Though I never …
: Just now realizing that Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” predates The Phantom of the Opera. …
: I picked up a Baronfig Confidant notebook for my nightly journal. I’m not as impressed with it …
: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.
: Finished reading: LaserWriter II: A Novel by Tamara Shopsin 📚 It was fine. It was quick.
: Listened to The Rumor, a podcast about an old rumor related to a postponed game during Cal …
: Heaven’s River by Dennis E. Taylor 📚 Loved the Bobiverse series at the outset, and was still …
: If you are an iPhone user and want to try the Bluetooth earbud game, but don’t want to shell out for …
: There needs to be a central API for album/music search. One that provides album details, art, and …
: 🎵 Blue Heron Suite by Sarah Jarosz A beautiful recording. It feels like the band is sitting in the …
: Trying to decide if I want to ask some friends if any of them want to spend one arm and one leg to …
: This week has me thinking hard about habits. Habit is the most powerful thing in the world in how it …
: I have not really sat and listened to many Bruce Springsteen albums. Winding down this Friday …
: Oleta Adams first received international acclaim for her work with Tears for Fears, lending needed …
: I wonder why macOS replaced the nice photo quick preview with this tiny version?
: If I’m listening to an album that I’m discovering for the first time, is it interesting …
: Two of my daughters wanted to get into vinyl. I love it! However, I have successfully steered them …
: Heading to a Shins concert tonight. Excited! 🎵
: I am working on upgrading my home stereo. Oh the rabbit holes I am going down. 🎵
: Did you know there is an MST3K text adventure game released in 1996? Though I don’t think it …
: Just drafted my newsletter to send out on Wednesday. It always has some writing that is not part of …
: Finished reading: The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) by N. K. Jemisin 📚 Now I’m reading …
: Watched Licorice Pizza tonight. I had no clue Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son was the male lead, but I …
: Saw Bullet Train and had a good time. Go and enjoy it! I also just realized you could run a whole …
: Art: Pickle. [T]he pickle remained stuck to the ceiling, using only ketchup remnants and …
: I encourage you all to build strong relationships with your children. Though I will warn you that …
: None of the trailers for The Rings of Power have given me any hope…until this one. Maybe?
: This response to “Quiet Quitting” is delicious. Bosses want to be religious leaders …
: Confession: I’m a life-long Minnesotan and a rock & roll fan, but I’ve never really …
: Took our daughter to a famous clinic today to (thankfully) find out she didn’t need a (minor) …
: Found myself in a strange place tonight.
: I like to look at set lists leading up to a concert, usually making a playlist to listen to …
: USA folks, the new IRA Bill seems to have some benefits to the homeowner. Particularly in the world …
: Heh. Ran into old school Book-A-Minute and Movie-A-Minute. Reminds me of a project I tried way back …
: The Greatest Salesman in the World is not a book about sales, but about habit formation. I believe …
: Did I ever share Rediscovering the Small Web here? If not, why not? Probably one of the micro.blog …
: I’ve spent a lot of time in my life learning about saving, finance, and investing. That …
: I downloaded Arc right before vacation, which was probably a bad idea. It couldn’t import my …
: Netflix download management for travel with four family members using four devices is…broken. My …
: The final hiking day of our trip was Bryce Canyon. Gorgeous. Went down Wall Street and over to …
: Grand Canyon north rim today. I had no idea how beautifully forested this area was. Breathtaking at …
: Today was a shorter day. Not as hot temperature-wise, but seems like they brought in some humidity? …
: Subway in Zion was an absolute butt-kicker. On the hike for over 10 hours, but totally worth it even …
: Zion with a little bit of The Narrows.
: A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore ahahahaha 🔗
: Heading to southern Utah tomorrow for lots of hiking and views. I might decide to post lots of …
: I feel like my Netflix downloads are always set to expire mid-trip. Seems like there should be a …
: Sculpture, what does it mean?
: Good Enough is taking a summer break, but we squeezed out one last newsletter for all of our …
: Paradox of choice over here as I try to plan our southern Utah itinerary. Heading out for 9 days …
: Camp Cucamonga, a TV movie from 1990, is not available for streaming anywhere and my wife is not …
: Our roof was replaced last week while we were gone on a marching band trip. The roofers did not do …
: It was a trip with challenges, but the kids had a blast and they got experiences like this. Success!
: Wet theme park conditions on this very trying “vacation” as a chaperone.
: Our silliest Good Enough newsletter yet. It doesn’t feel like a day to be silly, but maybe that’s …
: I think Observations on 6 years of journaling might have helped me to crack the code of this thing I …
: Oliver Burkeman’s latest newsletter includes this bit. I’m happy to read someone …
: News flash: Aaron Copland is pretty good. 🎵
: Finished up The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, featuring @patrickrhone and @rohdesign. Good eats!📚
: Related to that prior post, take a look at this video/audio toybox, Xorberax Visualizer. How fun is …
: Sometimes these folks get to be a little much, but it is true that Poolsuite FM is an inspiration …
: Some good spam asking for blog links: I stumbled upon your article here micro.bjhess.com/page/3/. …
: 🎵 Hard (2022) by Tove Styrke Pop that brings you back. Gated drums on the intro track make you think …
: Taking a break as the oldest wraps up her college orientation.
: 🍿 Wrath of Man (2021) It was pretty good…Guy Ritchie without the Guy Ritchie. Not sure why …
: Victor Wooten is amazing and this is amazing. I should have taken about five pages of notes on this …
: Did they fix the Apple Music app? #wwdc
: Woke up today to doevery.day having an order of magnitude more sign ups than it has had before. …
: Listening to vinyl again for the first time in a while. Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 is good for …
: Let the summer of margaritas commence.
: Finished reading: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 📚
: I just had a nighttime video call with a friend. Typically with evening hangs, especially virtual, I …
: I surprised myself and wrote one oblique sort of thing about how I’m feeling in this America …
: We just wrapped up A Good Enough Newsletter and it will go out this afternoon. This time there will …
: 🎶 There’s a new release of Max Richter’s take on Vivaldi. (I talked about this …
: Is there a Twitter client that allows you to cut Twitter’s feature set to the following? …
: Holding court at the bedroom window.
: Walked around the graduation party setup this morning. Then went back into my quarantine. This is …
: Now I’ve been banned from lobste.rs for the reason that I’m supposedly a duplicate user …
: I feel like I’m approaching one of those moments where I have to strip everything away, make it all …
: I watched The Phantom Thread tonight in my quarantine room. Now I need a film studies class to …
: 🔗 These remixes by The Reflex are amazing.
: 🔗 Some lovely light reading while sitting in bed with COVID: About Those Kill-Switched Ukranian …
: Wow, the original WWW logo was spectacular.
: After 2 years of our house being COVID-free, today is the day. I’m the winner of the COVID …
: First time I’ve played it and… Framed #63. 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf I’ve never seen the movie in …
: Coming soon the makers of doevery.day bring you A Good Enough Newsletter. To support these wacky web …
: I’ve got all the posts I care to transition transitioned to the new HTML+CSS version of my …
: Shawn shared this with me today. It’s amazing.
: 🔗 In a recent newsletter I wrote about how I gave up on the book Ducks, Newburyport, so I really …
: So now that I’ve moved my main blog off of Micro.blog, my theory is that I will feel more …
: I’ve decided to bring my main site & blog back in-house. bjhess.com is not using a …
: Fortunate to take my two brass-playing kids to see Canadian Brass this afternoon. Such virtuosos! …
: doevery.day now has a cheering feature for log entries. Cheer on your friends. Be cheered by your …
: 🔗 A Hidden Art Form You’ll Flip For
: Did you know in 2005 a song called “My Humps” sat at number 3 on the Hot 100 for 6 weeks?
: Magic for your locks that no longer seem to be working with your key.
: 🍿 The Batman (2022) I went into this expecting a super hero movie. By the end I realized it was more …
: The Minnesota Timberwolves made me feel very Minnesotan tonight. Oof.
: I’m very thankful to @jean for bringing doevery.day to the @theweeklyreview podcast. It was …
: I think my least favorite response to reporting a bug to a company is “Here, look at our …
: 🔗 The Former Netflix DVD Library Is a Lost Treasure We’ll Never See Again This does make me sad. …
: Prepping for a music boosters benefit concert tonight. Music!
: 🔗 Practically Paperless with Obsidian For those that followed along with my Obsidian questions last …
: 🔗 This art was made by a computer This is just absurdly mindblowing. I want to try it, but …
: If you are a person who has a thousand ideas and directions you want to go, how have you managed to …
: The ice cream is choice, as is the passive aggression. This sign went well with the “Don’t tilt …
: 📺 W/ Bob & David (2015) I’m a huge Mr. Show fan, so of course I watched this. Maybe it was …
: Starting vacation off with some mini golf.
: So my friend Shawn and I have put together a website to help us stay motivated to do the daily thing …
: From Dobby Gibson’s “Ode to the Future”, published in Little Glass Planet: so …
: 📺 Sweet Tooth (2021) As a Jeff Lemire fan who has never read his Sweet Tooth comics (I know), this …
: 🎵 Nine Lives (2022) by Kendra Morris Been a long time since Morris released an album and I’m …
: Who remembers Userscripts? Here’s a mirror of the old site. I wanted to add a shortcut to the …
: I am trying Obsidian, but want it to work without having to dive deep into the details. Is that …
: 📺 The Afterparty (2022) Kind of a fun modern take on Clue.
: 🍿 Philomena (2013) What an outstanding film! Judi Dench is superb and Steve Coogan provides a great …
: 📚 God of Nothingness (2021) by Mark Wunderlich & Against Heaven (2022) by Kemi Alabi I quite …
: 🦹 Criminal: The Last of the Innocent (2011) This is volume 6 in the Criminal series by Ed Brubaker …
: 📺 Ted Lasso, season 2 (2021) We watch television shows pretty slowly. Season 2 dug deep into some …
: There’s homemade falafel under all of that green.
: Sheet pan pancakes last night.
: My Current VS Code Shortcuts
: 🔗 Say yes and never do it I love this message. I think it can go further. In my head is a reasonable …
: 🍿 The Paper Tigers (2020) For our monthly movie, a friend and I were mutually in a …
: 🎵 Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, the Four Seasons (2014) Vivaldi had never been my thing. Then …
: 🍿 Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) I’m on the “mostly enjoyed Bo Burnham’s Inside” …
: 📚 Head On (2019) by John Scalzi I appreciate the things Scalzi is accomplishing in this universe. …
: 🎵 Candid (2020) by Whitney A lovely cover album for a Friday afternoon. Candid by Whitney
: 🦹 Ascender (2021) Ascender is a fascinating series with beautiful watercolor art. I liked its …
: Does anyone else have an iCal (macOS) that is completely buggy? For years mine has: given me …
: 🍿 Spectre (2015) The Daniel Craig Bond movies are always good. Maybe it was lack of sleep or …
: The story of Mark Wunderlich’s poem Cuthbert rolls along so well. I didn’t realize until …
: For the fourth webapp I’m setting up in 2022, I’m trying Elixir and Phoenix rather than my …
: 🍿 Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) Pretty decent little family movie. It had a few interesting ideas …
: 🍿 Last Night in Soho (2021) I love me some Edgar Wright, but I’m still not sure what I think …
: Do you have a thing you need to do every day? Writing, drawing, lifting heavy things or some other …
: 🎵 An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) by Silk Sonic Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, and Silk Sonic – seems …
: 📚 Fish: a tap essay (2012) by Robin Sloan What an interesting experiment. It has some things to say.
: 🎵 What Kinda Music (2020) by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes Was listening to this on repeat today.
: 📚 The Obelisk Gate (2016) by N. K. Jemisin I read this with audio. It’s a book two that found …
: 🎵 I Don’t Live Here Anymore (2021) by The War on Drugs
: 🍿 Letters to Juliet (2010) I wouldn’t use movie art to describe this movie, but it still …
: 🦹 The Immortal Hulk This has been a wild ride. A horror comic with many surprises. Volume 8 found me …
: I have a series of photos I want to share online. I want the page to basically just be the picture, …
: 🎵 The Dream (2022) by alt-J It’s finally out. Let’s see how it sounds… The Dream by …
: The poetry books I’m currently reading have quite the titles. Will see if these bring out my angst …
: With my return to daily coding, my wrists and left pinky are hurting while using my Apple keyboard. …
: 🦹 Eternals (2006) Neil Gaiman lends his considerable talents to revisit Eternals. The book felt like …
: I’m coding more again and starting to get pained using my magic keyboard. Though I wish for a …
: 📚 The Dream of Reason (2018) by Jenny George Lots of poems about animals. I didn’t jive with …
: Recipes. Seriously. Tonight I picked up the knife for a “preparation 5 minutes” recipe. …
: I’m starting to build up a list of my favorite albums as well as tracking those albums that I …
: 📚 Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (2003) I may be 20 years late, but this is a good celebrity memoir. …
: 🍿 The Maze Runner (2014) This one really did depart quite a bit from the book. Partly I think that …
: Learning to sharpen chisels today.
: 📚 Prognosis by Jim Moore (2021) Now this is what I meant when I wrote about mixing with my mind by …
: 🎵 Obviously by Lake Street Dive (2021) I’ve listened to this 4 or 5 times in the past week. It …
: 🦹 Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon (2013) This through volume four is roughly the basis for the Marvel …
: 📚 The Maze Runner (2010) I’ve tried to read along with each of the kids on at least one book …
: 🍽️ Spicy Thai Basil Chicken (Pad Krapow Gai) This is my favorite Thai restaurant order and Chef John …
: 🍿 Dolemite Is My Name (2019) It took a bit for me to get into the movie, but by the end I was quite …
: I’ve decided to run a edited newsletter montly. It will collate many of the posts here at the …
: 🍿 Red Notice (2021) Nothing ground breaking here, but a few laughs never hurt anyone.
: Whelp, the money shoe has dropped (RE: G Suite legacy free edition), which probably makes it so …
: 🍽️ Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Could kind of eat this all night. Hope you like sausage! …
: 🎵 Brothertiger Plays Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair (2017) A friend turned me on to …
: From Jenny George’s collection The Dream of Reason (I could find no place to link to, so this …
: 🍽️ Black Bean and Roasted Salsa Soup Another out-of-the-park vegetarian option. Soup season!
: 🍽️ Street Cart Chicken & Yellow Rice I’ve made this twice now, and it is the real deal. I …
: 🍿 Dune (2021) This is the second time I’ve seen the movie now and I think I like it. It is …
: Living by what yet get, life by what you give. – Winston Churchill
: 🔗 Unsolicited Advice to Minnesota Children by Neil Hilborn I shouldn’t quote the whole thing …
: 🍿 Bolt (2008) My youngest had never seen this one, so we watched it tonight while the other kids …
: 📚 Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (2021) I like how Nick Offerman writes. It inspires me to be …
: 🔗 An app can be a home-cooked meal I am the programming equivalent of a home cook. What an …
: 📚 Dune (1965) I never read Dune as a kid. I tried to read Dune just out of college, but it …
: 🥘 Dilly Bean Stew with Cabbage and Frizzled Onions So much flavor, so few ingredients! Also, …
: Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. – Jonas Salk
: 📚 Homie (2020) Did not hit me as hard as Don’t Call Us Dead. As with all Danez Smith, watching …
: 🍿 Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
: 🍿 The Bird and the Whale (2018) Quite a pretty short movie, animated from thousands of paintings.
: I know that Micro.blog is designed not to have any private “things,” but it strikes me …
: God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. – Kurt Vonnegut
: 🍿 Men in Black 3 (2012) Watching all of these with the kids only to discover that I hadn’t …
: Micro.blogging I have decided to give Micro.blog an honest try in 2022. This means I am moving my blogging presence …
: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
: Postcolonial Love Poem – I didn’t particularly understand anything I was reading. However, there was …
: Has anyone out there given clay.earth a try? Thoughts? I tend to just keep an ongoing log of notes …
: I’m back and I’m backfilling some things here on micro.blog. I tried bringing in my main …
: 🍿 Encanto (2021) That moment when you realize these two are the same people. Love it! 🍿
: 🍿 The Power of the Dog (2021) An impressive piece of filmmaking. The visuals, mood, music, and …
: Lasagna night. It was good, but the goodness did not match the effort on this one.
: Omuraisu - my favorite use of leftover rice. I’m not a ketchup and eggs person, but …
: Chicken fesenjan with saffron rice. #richandsilky
: Pizza night tonight was in the Buffalo style. (Thin, cheese and sauce to the edges, 1lb of cheese …
: Getting the dust bunnies out. 💻
: It’s been a long time We shouldn’t have left you Without a dope beat to step to 🎵
: Jesse just got back from the grocery store. Wonder what’s for dinner?
: A fun UX primer in LEGO. www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO…
: Kid found a computer in the closet.
: An interesting, though sad, story about the COVID hit to Kenyan tourism and conservancies.
: A friend turned me on to Allen Stone. Seems a positive, bluesy voice who is worth digging into a …
: We’re hiking in the north woods of Minnesota. Lake Agnes here.
: My blog archives ≤ 2021 are found at my homepage.
: Happy 20th Anniversary to the best partner I could ever ask for. Let’s get cake! ððð
: Pandemic, make-it-work router table. #homehomehome
: The girls’ band trip was wisely postponed this summer. Thankfully neither of them are seniors …
: I bet kids will be running around each other’s yards again soon, masked up playing robbers and …
: My daughter, Ava, has been making coloring pages to pass the quarantime. Maybe you or one of your …
: Naively we visited germ factories.
: I assume bacteria will eventually break down any tiny shards of glass from this fermentation mishap?
: My dad and I went down to Kansas City for some, what we hoped to be, warm April baseball. Mother …
: We had just gotten married and strangely decided to catch a sunrise. I remember we rented a Grand Am …
: In our younger days we would visit large cities. Sometimes weâd have family there to show us …
: One time long ago we even tried to camp. I don’t know if I’d choose that over …
: Badlands ‘99. Back when we used to drive around from place to place.
: About 20 years ago we went on a trip. That was nice. I enjoyed that.
: It paid off keeping a too-large container of yeast in the fridge for a couple years.
: These tandoori barbecue chips for Aldi are really good, but methinks they take themselves a bit too …
: A friend texted me last weekend mentioning his temptation to go to his home office and do some more …
: Cleaning out some old folders in the filing cabinet.
: Happy birthday, Jesse! I wrote all the mushy, personal stuff in the card I gave you. I think this is …
: Did you know cranberry sauce is really easy…and really tasty?
: Other side of the sunset at soccer. Sadly the game was called shortly after this due to lightning.
: Jesse’s taking me to a concert for which I bought tickets for a year ago for my birthday. She …
: Meaningful baseball on August is a gift, but this is about the most exciting thing weâve seen so …
: avie_h is into this selfie thing.