If you want to know how much Canadians are pissed at anybody associated with Trump and Musk, I’ve seen most hockey fans say “fuck Wayne Gretzky” and call him “The Great Once”

Binge-watching all the Fast & Furious movies, I’m realizing that there’s a whole bunch of problems that can be solved by driving a car really fast! Who knew?

My 13-year old kid listened to some Beatles and Doors albums and concluded that many lyrics must have been written while consuming various drugs.

How ironic it is that I caught the flu 3 days before my flu vaccine appointment. I’ve been sick for more than a week. I guess next year I won’t procrastinate on booking it…

One of the great unsolved technical problems of our times is to figure out if a ZIP file has all the compressed files at its root or inside a directory, so I know whether to unzip it inside a new directory or not.

Crazy theory: the decline of seeing movies in theatres in favour of streaming them at home was caused by movies becoming so long that a critical mass of people need a bathroom break in the middle, and therefore the ability to pause the movie.

Today in American Apple journalism, Ireland is a country that “supports successful companies”, and not the tax loophole that every worldwide corporation uses to evade paying billions of dollars for their business across Europe and beyond. I’m always impressed by this sort of mental gymnastic of libertarian tech-exceptionalism.

My teenager, looking at the TV screen with a completely confused look.

Me: “what’s wrong?”

Him: “I… did something in Elden Ring and it was easy”

If you tilt your head and squint a bit, it looks as if modern #TTRPG games used to be scenarios, and modern TTRPG rules used to be playstyles

Any trip between, let’s say, 50km and 500km is almost always more effectively done via high-speed train than driving or flying. North Americans need to realize that and invest in their rail network.