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This week’s earworm is Dominoes by The Big Pink, who had a moment back in 2009 or so.

Well, shit.

Andy Harris, Maryland’s embarrassing right-wing Congressman, did a rare town hall meeting with his Democratic opponent on Tuesday evening.

This past Thursday, the girls and I went to our local Walgreens and got some of our shots taken care of; I did a double-dose of flu and COVID.

Folk Implosion, Free to Go.

It’s been a busy week here at IdiotCentral; there’s some news I’m not ready to share yet which has been taking up most of my free time preparing for.

Man, I could not be happier for these kids.

“Opening a lock is the easiest thing for a clockmaker,” said Klausmann.

I saw these ads during the football games last weekend, and wondered how in the world they were approved with the words “Paid for by the US Government” in bold letters at the bottom.

Man, I miss this era: Consequence of Sound gives us a list of the 60 best albums of 1996.

Lifehacker published a really good article on installing a simple solar house setup with battery backup as a bundle.

This week’s earworm is Reign, a track off the second album by UNKLE, from 2003.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been eighteen years since we brought this little tater tot home from the hospital.

Over the last couple of weekends, I’ve spent a bunch of time trying to get an outside wireless access point set up at the house.

Alex Sujong-Laughlin writes over at Defector about falling down the doomsday prepping rabbit hole, and she put something into perspective for me that resonated deeply.

This video from Adam on the Tested YouTube channel features a visit to the Udvar-Hazy Museum, where he’s talking to some of the officials about their Sikorsky JRS-1, a prewar amphibious transport which has the remarkable distinction of being the only surv…

As with previous Labor Days, I spent the majority of mine laboring.

Gina Trapani was the founder of Lifehacker, a fantastic website featuring all kinds of tips, tricks, and toys to make life easier.

Here’s a video recap of August’s progress on the trucks; my accomplishments have slowed down as the month got busy, but I did get some small tasks completed, as well as hosted a workday last weekend.

I’ve posted this song here before, but I absolutely love the groove to this song.

A few weeks ago, we had a pretty violent thunderstorm roll through our area.

Recall/warranty notices for a vehicle you own are never good.

All the good aliens have left the planet.

I took the girls to see The Odyssey on Sunday afternoon, and my ears are still ringing.

I played music on my little purple iPod Mini during the last two hours of the ride home, and Undertow by Lush got stuck in my head.

Finn and I are back from a week visit in Upstate New York, where we were able to get a bunch of chores squared away for my Mom, visit my Dad and grandparents as well as some of my cousins, and eat lots of good food.