I went on like two dates in college with the actor that played Porkins’ niece. That’s the entire story. 

For what it’s worth, if you’re just casually trying to get a console they’re unobtanium. I decided, for whatever reason, that I really wanted a PS5. I followed half a dozen Twitter accounts for PS5 in stock notifications, turned on alerts, and kept trying until I got lucky. Since I work at my computer it’s pretty easy…

That’s Mike Mitchell of the Doughboys podcast trying to save Jon’s stuff (and failing). 

Not sure how they work with cable, but I just got an HDHomeRun Tuner for my Plex server to act as a Live TV/DVR system. It works pretty darned perfectly. 

These are important considerations. 

I forget the cost, but the manufacturing license is an NFA Form 2 and doesn’t let you make select-fire weapons. It’s the same form if you want to cut off the barrel of your AR short enough that it becomes an SBR. The tax stamp for a Form 4, which lets you transfer NFA restricted weapons is $200.

FWIW: My machine runs much better on Big Sur than it did on Catalina. It’s a very impressive, snappy OS.

Hopefully we can get it with a sunroof this round. 

I like to mix some Franks Red Hot into the mayo I put on a breakfast sandwich. It’s great. 

Some of the new features they announced with the Mini are intriguing enough for me to consider dumping some of my Echoes for these, but not until Spotify is natively supported. 

The new Ratchet and Clank is my primary driving in trying (and failing) to secure a PS5 preorder.

I graduated law school in 2012. I swapped jobs a year ago and a number of positions I applied for required both undergraduate and law school transcripts. 

I was the other way around: I was a big PC gaming guy until I graduated law school. I was a few months into my first big-kid job and a surge blew my network card on my gaming tower. That was, apparently, enough for me to say “FUCK EVERYTHING” and sell my entire gaming setup. I went Mac and haven’t looked back. My…

I actually find Air Fryers appealing, but I already have one of the Breville Toaster Ovens with Convection. Since this is just “a small convection oven,” would I be double dipping by getting one? 

I made Auto Correct shortcuts in Word! I made it so if I type “PPP” or “SSS” or whatever strange combination I make up that I won’t type in regular life, as soon as I hit space Word automatically corrects it to the symbol. So I only had to track down the symbol once when I made my rules.

I’m a lawyer. I went to a compact mechanical keyboard a few years ago. I was afraid I’d miss my 10-key, so I bought an external wireless one, with the idea that I could slot it over when I needed it. I don’t think I have used it more than twice in total. I greatly prefer this compact board over a larger one. 

I noodled on this for a while after the announcement and ended up ordering a new Macbook Pro 13" yesterday to replace my finally showing its age Mid-2014 model. I figure that I’m getting the final iteration of a developed product instead of taking a swing on a wildly new generation that will likely have some manner of…

My read of Ferrari not offering Vettel a contract was economics. They basically blamed it on the Coronavirus, which makes some kind of sense: Vettel is expensive as hell and an easy way to dramatically cut costs in an uncertain economic future. The issue is, no one else expected him to be available. Vettel is a…

This is always an issue out west. Prairie Dogs carry the plague, or at least the fleas on them do. Whole dog towns will die off in any given year that are colloquially referred to as “plagued out.” It’s a thing. 

Feedly is very good.