After reading just the headline, my first thought was “Minecraft”. My older kids played it a little but weren’t obsessed. My 6 year-old loves it, and when he’s not playing it or watching YouTube videos of other people playing it, he’s talking about it.

Maybe not worth mentioning, but for that 1TB USB-C external SSD, the red & blue versions are $160 as you said, but the black version is only $143 (same capacity).

Maybe not worth mentioning, but for that 1TB USB-C external SSD, the red & blue versions are $160 as you said, but…

I think the reason he aspires so low with his taste, not going full Bond villain and all, is that he’s lazy AF. I mean, obviously he aspired to be POTUS and that took work, but I think that came with a lot of instant gratification from his adoring cult members, so it made it worth it. I mean, he didn’t work hard at…

Many conspiracy theorists are, at their core, terrified.

I’ve done this a lot with my younger kids. The littlest was into some kind of obscure characters from a weird Netflix series I’d never seen any of. He’d ask for a story about these weird characters and then he’d tell me to include other characters from other shows, and it turns into a fanfic mashup of weird characters…

I put in a nice Atmos theater room (only 5.1.2 though) in my basement a few years ago, but it’s still held back somewhat by the 1080p projector. At the time there really weren’t options for 4k projectors under $3k, and I don’t have that kind of budget. Eventually I’ll probably get there. And in light of that 1080p…

I put in a nice Atmos theater room (only 5.1.2 though) in my basement a few years ago, but it’s still held back…

Arriving January 1: Arachnophobia

I actually really appreciated the “high school gym locker room” aesthetic of the mechanical room (picture 49, I think), as a counter-balance to all of the whatever-the-fuck the rest of the house was.

I’m convinced that ~50% of all people who have ever used or will ever use this bathtub have/will have gotten a major concussion and possibly died getting out of the tub:

My parents are pretty conservative, traditional gender roles, black & white thinking, staunch Mormon kind of people. I’d like to think that as a dad I appreciate the things they did well as individuals (there’s a lot that I’m just not as good at as they are), and find ways to be better than they were at the parts they…

I am exaggerating a little... the one I’ve actually paid for is Magnet (one of the Windows window snap utilities as you’ve mentioned), which I think was $2, or somewhere south of $5 at least. But BetterTouchTool seems like it has some good functionality that would work the way things should have always worked... It’s…

Damn it, I knew I should have jumped on that offer when I first saw it, instead of waiting until later in the day. When I look at my order it still says

I’m not a gamer... In fact, I probably spend too much time on stupid casual games on my phone, and should spend even less time playing games. Maybe I’ll use it as a wired controller for the raspberry pi emulation box I’ve been putting together for the kids.

It’s always bugged me how many little utilities you have to buy from 3rd party devs for stupid little things like window management and cleaning up your status bar, or other mundane stupid things that should already be built-in to the OS.

I already have one dongle for an external monitor, and another dongle for with a bunch of additional USB-A ports, ethernet, and HDMI for another monitor, and I still need another 4-port USB hub. I’ve had charging issues with this laptop, so I usually avoid plugging my charger into the dongle and go straight into the…

When one of mine was probably about 2 1/2, he came to the open front door as my wife was arranging Christmas decorations on the porch. We’d just gotten a dusting of snow and when he saw it he yelled out “Holy shit it snowed!” I thought it was funny because while we do swear in front of him (including “shit”), I don’t…

The debates will be on YouTube. Enjoy your shows live, watch the screaming match on your own time later.

I think the commemorative gift coins are the cherry on top of the idiocy sundae. I guess time will tell whether those age better or worse than the North Korean peace talk coins.

Also, any time the dishwasher isn’t running a load, and it’s clean, it also doubles as a drying rack.

One of the movies I looked up was “This is 40.” In the same page it linked to (obviously) “Knocked Up”, but also “Schindler’s List”.