One thing I will actually give that man credit for: Bill Gates wasn’t in that lineup. And you know he was asked.

There’s something about an impending return to work after vacation that makes me want to wax poetic. Is this a generalizable phenomenon? Would we increase the production of emo music and beat poetry by moving to a European vacation model?

In my *mumble* *mumble* 25 years of playing and GM-ing D&D and Pathfinder, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character drown. Came within 4 rounds of it happening tonight.

As both an elder millennial and a parent of teenagers, it’s hard to understate the cognitive dissonance that comes from watching the behavioral convergence of my more feral peers and my children.

Y’all name your kids whatever the hell you want, but damned if I support parents getting an attitude when folks can’t spell “Vraedin”.

I have never once had my Christmas shopping done more than 48 hours before Christmas but it took until I was 37 years old for me to be diagnosed with ADHD.

As a Millennial Parent, the last 14 years have been a persistent series of surprises at how much more emotionally well-adjusted our Gen Alpha kids are than we were.

Eating pie for breakfast on Black Friday is what it means to be American, Charlie Brown.

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

Aühsøj is a desk whose legs are sold separately. And apparently the legs that match the desk’s color have been discontinued but nobody knows for sure.

I’m an extrovert, so when my therapist suggested journaling I decided to resume posting to social media instead. Because damned if I’m going to have thoughts and feelings alone in my head by myself.

There’s nothing like a prematurely-failed appliance to build brand antipathy. To hell with LG and their garbage refrigerators.

If only one day a year is innovation day, what does that say about the other 199 work days?

spoiler alert; the robot coke tastes like shit

This is the bad place. On BlueSky I see almost all of the stuff posted by 15% of the people I used to follow. On Mastadon, I see almost none of the stuff posted by 40% of the people I used to follow.

Of course I realized it’s Yom Kippur Weekend and iPhone Day only after sending out the newsletter.

Has anyone ever seen consumer or employee surveys actually drive behavior at Fortune 500 companies?