#writing • Someone on the internet I have never met just poked me. So hard that it hurt. Her name is Liz and I forgive her because she didn’t poke me personally. I might even liken it to jabbing myself, and all because she defined the word “enough” in my context.
In January of 2020, two months before it would have a name, my little family of three caught Covid-19. While we didn’t experience any respiratory complications or need hospitalization, it was painful and …
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Barenaked Ladies - Stunt (20th Anniversary Edition)(1998). Great album from a wonderful band from the heyday or #AAA on the radio. A shoutout to #ThePointFM in #Vermont! #music #barenakedladies www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight (1978). I just love Cheap Trick. Fantastic rock band. Enormous catalog of music. Get diggin'! #music #cheaptrick www.youtube.com/watch
#NowWatching @ Nothing Manor: Oddleaf - Ethereal Melodies (2024). A new French #ProgressiveRock band I’ve been made aware of, this track has some serious #prog chops! I’m about to listen to more and will share per usual. #music #progrock #france www.youtube.com/watch
#NowWatching @ Nothing Manor: Welcome to The Darkness (2023). A #documentary about the bombastic arena rock band, their fall from grace, and how they started to climb back up despite serious challenges. #movies #TheDarkness #music www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Cheap Trick - Sgt. Pepper Live (2009). The band known as “The Beatles of Japan” plays The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album live. So meta in the best possible way! Great album. #music #rock #cheaptrick www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992). Having listened to #ProgRock for years, I was blown away by Pull Me Under on the radio and immediately bought the album. #music #progmetal www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Steve Hackett - Live Magic at Trading Boundaries (2025). More “unbound” as opposed to “unplugged” as described by Nick Tate @ Prog Report, the former Genesis lead guitarist reimagines numerous tracks from his long musical history. #music #acoustic www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Oz Noy & Andrew Synowiec - Recreational Substance (2025). DAYUM!! First gear is a kick in the pants, but shifting to second is lighting the house on fire! #JazzFusion is alive and fighting anything that moves and I’m here for it! #music www.youtube.com/watch
Um, sure. Cool story, bro. Amazon closing a recently unionized warehouse to go back to contract-based workers is like trying to compare motor oil to French toast. Just cost cutting. “SQUIRREL” [POINTS IN DIFFERENT DIRECTION] #capitalism #amazon #Canada #Quebec #unions gizmodo.com/amazon-sh…
Mickey 17 is my most anticipated #scifi movie in some time, and the latest trailer only confirms that I am right to be excited for Bong Joon Ho’s (The Host, Mother, Snowpiercer, Parasite) latest future masterpiece. #movies www.youtube.com/watch
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: If you use #Homebrew on #macOS don’t trust any ads promoting it. There’s a good chance that it’s actually #malware. I use it all the time, but since I block all ads, I’ve never seen this, but be careful! #apple #tech #infosec #scams appleinsider.com/articles/…
#Polygon is having some fun with trying to figure out what the new “C” button is on the upcoming #Nintendo #Switch2’s right #joycon. One of them, as an old man, made me happy people still fondly remember Peter Falk :) #videogames #fun #tv www.polygon.com/nintendo-…
If you’ve got an #M4MacMini and your curious about some interesting use cases, you might find Wesley Hilliard’s review on Apple Insider a source of ideas. #apple #mac #projects #homelab #tech appleinsider.com/articles/…
I’ve never taken a single sleeping pill in my entire life. Never needed one, but I can empathize with those who have. And now I feel terrible for anyone who’s been taking them long-term. This is both unsurprising and depressing. #sleep #health #bigpharma #mentalhealth arstechnica.com/science/2…
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Jeff Sipe Trio (2014). With Sipe on drums, Mike Seal on guitar, and Taylor Lee on bass, this #JazzFusion album is nicely satisfying. My favorite tracks are Lightning Man and a fantastic cover of Coltrane’s Naima. #music #jazz www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: John Mayer - Continuum (2006). Very solid studio album and the last of Mayer’s I would truly enjoy. Good to put on and groove to whilst you do something. #music #poprock www.youtube.com/watch
Oh snap! A company called Arcooda is making 29.3" 4:3 1-to-1 arcade cabinet LCD display replacements!!?? WOW!!! It’s a short video, but it’s all the info you need in just over a minute. #videogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #arcades www.youtube.com/watch
Oh wow! Remember this crazy Sony thing during the UMPC era? Someone is working on a drop-in replacement motherboard that will upgrade it to a modern CPU so it can be used to fix broken devices or, in their words, “drag this classic handheld into the modern era.” #retrocomputing www.reddit.com/r/umpc/co…
Don’t watch the news today since all they’ll be talking about is how great and normal it is to just hand an entire country over to a criminal in the name of a democracy that’s been utterly broken and shreaded. If that leaves you unsure of what to do instead, here are some suggestions:
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Toad the Wet Sprocket - All You Want (Bonus Edition)(2023). This is a re-release of the 2011 re-recordings of the band re-performing a number of their popular songs in the studio. Some peeps find this disappointing. I like it. #music www.youtube.com/watch
#NowPlaying @ Nothing Manor: Tal Wilkenfeld - Transformation (2007). One of my favorite bassists. First saw her watching Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott’s. I believe she was 19 then. #music #jazzfusion www.youtube.com/watch
I’m all in for the idea that #Nintendo’s #Switch2 Joycons will have a mouse mode, especially if we get Game Pass and in-home streaming. I’m not into Epic, but I have a ton of games there because they can’t stop giving away bangers. #videogames daringfireball.net/linked/20…
#journalism #dollarnomics #editorial - Tyler K. Nothing reporting.
DATELINE INTERNETOPIA - #Substack has created a mythology in the form of the $15 a month newsletter. The claim was that it would help support independent writers who have been driven out of organized news gathering by capitalist greed’s desire to “trim the fat” (meaning people who cost money they’d rather have in their Cayman bank accounts), but the model is unsustainable. In reality, all it does is net …
Time to switch your PC desktops and laptops to #Linux, peeps! Back up all your stuff, make a copy of your #Windows install, then install #LinuxMint Cinnamon Edition, which you can get here: www.linuxmint.com/download…. #tech #capitalism
Or just get a base #MacMini.
Robert A. Heinlein