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I love when I see the same album for multiple years in my Backtracks email, because it usually means I saw that album in my Backtracks email in a previous year and was inspired to listen to it again. In the Backtracks community we call these “combos” and compete to get the longest chain. My record is 4!

I find these Grandin Road "Expressive Pumpkins" extremely charming. They are papier–mâché for some reason!

I just had a tour of your newly renovated theme park. I hate to be that guy, but I just want to mention that, while you refer to your destination as a theme park, it would be more accurate to describe it as a motif park.

Excuse Me, but Your Theme Park Is Actually a Motif Park - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

I am trying to see what VR is like these days without giving money to Meta so I bought the world's shittiest phone-mount VR headset at Five Below only to discover that YouTube removed VR headset support from their iOS app at some point and there's not much else out there. Seems like mobile virtual reality has just disappeared.

For literally no reason I've updated the Javascript on my non-interactive GORILLAS.BAS browser port. I originally wrote this in 2014…in CoffeeScript. You can read about why I made it on this article I published at the time, featuring a lot of dead links to Twitter and perhaps the cleverest title on this website.

Just learning about genre painting, a style which depicts ordinary people in everyday life. This article in Art UK offers a ton of examples full of forensic storytelling. I was considering new inspiration for my experiences and realized that instead of thinking of the medium as a small stage, it might serve me to think of it as a large canvas. We'll see!

In my mind, Ice Spice's verse on "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" is full of confident assertions about Yosemite Sam. In reality I think she only mentions him maybe once

From a blog post about generating dynamic prose by Aaron A. Reed. She loved chocolate bar.