(Spotted in a city park today)
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1. Sign up for Fastrak account so I can auto-pay tolls on a route I’ll …
1. Sign up for Fastrak account so I can auto-pay tolls on a route I’ll be driving a lot for a few months.
2. Realize that the agency I signed up through doesn’t manage the route I’m using, so I have to wait for the transponder to arrive. 🤦♂️
3. Look at the agency that does manage it…and they have both a monthly fee and a setup fee…while the one I went with only charges for the actual tolls incurred. 🙄
I’m a bit less annoyed over number 2 now!
Parenting, metaphor
Me: Ok, you want to be at the top of this cliff. Here’s a staircase, a ladder, and an elevator.
Kid: What if I free-climb the cliff?
Me: There aren’t any handholds.
Kid: What if I wear climbing gloves?
Me: That doesn’t work without handholds, try one of the options you have.
Kid: But what if I wear climbing gloves *and* boots?
Me: …
Kid: A rope?
Me: Attached to what?
Kid: Why won’t you let me be at the top of the cliff!!!!
Also: catapult, human cannonball, hitching a ride on a large bird, rocket shoes, giant springs, freak windstorm, tunneling under the cliff and somehow ending up at the top, helicopter pickup, teleportation, and portals.
*Anything* but the stairs, ladder or elevator that are actually *available to use*
Oh, and of course insisting that he’s already at the top of the cliff he’s looking up at, and that we’re trying to send him back to the bottom
The kid finally uninstalled the game he’s been screaming at all week.
The kid finally uninstalled the game he’s been screaming at all week.
Responding to a comment about a similar incident with Flight Simulator
He’s gotten more persistent since then. Even though I don’t think he enjoyed more than about 20% of the time he was playing it, including the stealth levels he asked me to play for him. (He can hyper-focus, but has no patience.)
Review of The Time Machine ★★★★☆
Review of The Time Machine ★★★★☆
H.G. Wells: A bit dry, but it draws you in, and if the plot is simple, it’s enough to wrap around some thought-provoking speculation about the future of humanity – and a critique of industrial society.
Tips from Atlas Obscura for making your decorative pumpkins last longer and not turn into …
Tips from Atlas Obscura for making your decorative pumpkins last longer and not turn into goo before Halloween even arrives.
Pronouncing RTX as Artax.
Pronouncing RTX as Artax.
Zoom decided my bluetooth keyboard must be a car, and opened in safe driving mode: …
Zoom decided my bluetooth keyboard must be a car, and opened in safe driving mode: no video, and just one giant mute button in the middle of the screen. 😂
Huh. Apparently we’ve begun the transition between articles on “How millennials killed ___” and “Is …
Huh. Apparently we’ve begun the transition between articles on “How millennials killed ___” and “Is Gen Z killing ____?”
At laundromat. Thought this was vaguely amusing
I’m a couple of days behind on Dracula Daily, but I’ve gotten to the point …
I’m a couple of days behind on Dracula Daily, but I’ve gotten to the point where the characters compile the first half of the book and pass it around to get each other all up to speed.
Nice article on Sergio Aragonés, prolific cartoonist known for his long-time association with MAD Magazine …
Nice article on Sergio Aragonés, prolific cartoonist known for his long-time association with MAD Magazine and creator of Groo the Wanderer, on the occasion of MAD’s 70th anniversary.
Nice: AlternativeTo even has a list of alternatives to itself!
Nice: AlternativeTo even has a list of alternatives to itself!
Fiction can’t *prove* a point about about reality, but it can make you *think*…
Something I wrote after my third time through #LesMiserables:
Fiction can’t *prove* a point about about reality, but it can make you *think* about it, and consider connections or perspectives that you might not have considered before. And that’s a very valuable thing.
I always feel weird typing things like “deploying new war”
I always feel weird typing things like “deploying new war”
Headline: “Pickleball is exploding, and it’s getting messy”I imagine it would…
Uspol, content moderation
GOP: your cable company should be allowed to charge extra for you to visit competitors websites because they’re not common carriers, but your social networks shouldn’t be allowed to block harassment because that’s censorship.
It’s over, Magma Cube! I have the high ground!
That nagging feeling that there’s something you forgot you were supposed to do that keeps …
That nagging feeling that there’s something you forgot you were supposed to do that keeps you too distracted from doing the other thing you’re supposed to be doing
The kid needs the bed from Wallace & Gromit, the one that tilts upward so …
The kid needs the bed from Wallace & Gromit, the one that tilts upward so he slides down off the bed into his clothes and lands in a chair at the dining table where breakfast is ready.
Heck, some mornings I could use that too.