I started Breath of the Wild. I have bombs and magnets now. I've also died, like a lot - something I haven't done in a Zelda game in many years. I recall quite vividly the first time I made it all the way through LttP without dying - it was exhilarating. But now dying is also kinda exciting.

I went up on my roof and looked at the horizon for awhile. I never noticed this before, but my apartment building is one of the highest points in northern Travis County (Austin), and I could see 20+ fireworks displays simultaneously. Most of them were many miles away, and as usual, I couldn't help but imagine what it…

One of the coolest things about that show is the way it uses cellphones. The furtive and secretive way people handle and look at them is maybe not realistic, but it adds a lot to the drama and suspense.

I did laundry yesterday. I was able to get two loads washed, dried, and folded. All in the same day. That never happens.

The founding fathers were something, although I'm having a hard time articulating exactly what. I suppose it could be the influence of religion. But they would be more likely to microwave free AOL CDs than elect someone clearly incompetent for the LOLs. They may have had their shortcomings, but they believed that…

The proof for math not being racist is a little bit more difficult, and requires symbols not on my keyboard.

a) racists hate n black people
b) I hate n-1 black people
c) ergo, I am not a racist

That's why I dropped out of J-School.

I drank Zima last weekend.

I went hiking yesterday, but I didn't go as far as I should have because it was so hot. It was in the high 90s, with a heat index of 107. I was at McKinney Roughs nature park out east of Austin. I can't wait to get up to altitude on my vacation in August.

Then what would you call falsehoods being presented as truths? When you say something is factual when you know that it's not? Fake facts and fake news are just euphemisms for lies.

I bought a Nintendo Switch, so I'm probably going to start playing that new Zelda game.

Still not sure who or what this Kinja is, but honestly, do you come here because you love Disqus so much? Huge swaths of this site are unusable on my work computer, but I come here anyway. Because I sometimes find insight or good conversation starters in the comments (when/if I can see comments).

I suppose we could slice you open and count the rings.

Not just ignored, but actively maligned, thanks to impending Medicaid and Medicare cuts. One last chance for Mitch and the boys to punish those uppity sluts.

Moscow is pretty far north, and has a lot of daylight in the summertime. Karl Urban might have been partying at a reasonable hour.

Typical X-Files episode

I'm afraid of dying. Even after I'm dead, I don't want my family to know what was on my computer.

Hey, at least that darn 2016 is over!

This particular problem of miscalculation of scale can almost be forgiven: Michigan, for example, doesn't really have any active military bases. Fear not, militia members - the jets we scrambled from Texas will be there in a few minutes.