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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 8h

(I have that same shirt, same tour.)

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 9h

I have bought other concert tickets that far out, but First Ave has never felt that planned out!

(Oddly, new order may be my record for furthest ever; bought pre-covid and rescheduled for around 2 years later!)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve got tickets to see Peter Hooke there next September; I think that was a personal record for me.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 10h

Somebody needs to make a casual sweatshirt/flannel/light coat that has a koozie sewn inside, so I can stash my drink long enough to politely clap between songs.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 11h

Minneapolis- not burning but kind of radiant

A skyline shot of downtown Minneapolis, looking up and south east.

The sky is dark and misty. Capella tower is surrounded by a halo of purple and pink lights, and Wells Fargo tower has a huge yellow glow, both mingling in the mist.

The glow in the sky is framed by strikingly dark towers and buildings that have their own rectangular windows piercing the dark.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 16h

I didn’t even get to the trinity!

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 16h

Evangelist% vs egotistical iron man%?

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 20h

I have been tempted to up my game with a butter wheel but it turns out that there are limits to my extravagant idiocy.

A small shallow stainless steel square dish with the word Cuisinart on the front. There is a perforated metal drum lying in the dish on an axle.

The concept is that you fill the dish with liquid butter flavored whatever, and roll the slice of bread along the wheel for a full-coverage situation. Commonly found in restaurants.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 21h

Uncrustables on a spectrum of:

Fresh from the fridge
In your front pocket awhile
In your lunch bag all morning
In the air fryer

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe a little lower?
The edges were a bit weird, but I didn’t hate ‘em.

I’ve always loved grilled pb&js but because there’s semi-liquids on all sides of the bread, they’re a pain to make.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 21h

Appreciated, but the raison d'être of uncrustables is “holy hell I’m lazy” and you may be pushing the boundaries of their fundamental nature there.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 21h

PUT THEM IN THE AIR FRYER FOR A FEW MINUTES

(I buttered one of these, I don’t know if it mattered.)

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 21h

also- just drop ‘em in the air fryer for 5 minutes at 375. F’real. WOW.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 22h

Thought they were the dumbest laziest product of all time.

Had one recently as an experiment and now I am all in. Truly a guilty pleasure.

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 22h

The raspberry flavor needs to come in the industrial sized box.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite koozies.
(Unfortunately, I think the brand is defunct.)

Pictures of two sides of the same black foam koozie, side by side.
The left is an image of a pixelated ghost, the right said “walks will haunt” in a spooky dripping font, contained in a voice bubble.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

I’m committed to the bit, but not that much.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 1d

You got your ramen in my pizza / you got your pizza in my ramen, etc

(Not pictured: the $1.99 price tag, which goes against the fundamental concepts of both Totinos pizza and instant ramen. Brand synergy dynamics only go so far, I guess.)

A red cup of instant noodles, prominently branded as Totinos ramen noodles- cheese pizza flavor.

There is a picture of a fork and longer flattish noodles than traditional cheap ramen usually is.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2d

I think trump derangement syndrome skews to the right than most accusers realize.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2d

Introing a pinball game with the phrase “look everyone, we have guests!” Is certainly a bold choice.

Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 2d

Mine’s doing their first red/blue cybersecurity contest next month; it brought tears to my eyes.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

At one point, Will insisted he had created the Chad persona as a bit.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 3d

I’m assuming you saw the Will Ferrel/Chad Smith Drum off?

Do you know how much it takes to get me to share a clip of the tonight show?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBO...

Will Ferrell and Chad Smith Drum-Off

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

m.youtube.com

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

Going with the classic.

A white tall boy can with simple black font that says “BEER.”

Craft lager.

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 4d

That only happens once a year, but “life changing event” seems awfully foreboding.

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