Sam’s Webzone

The goldfish crackers without smiley faces taste better than the goldfish crackers with smiley faces.

University art departments should offer minors in Parsing Adobe’s Subscription Terms.

I’m delighted whenever I hear the motor’s “wrrrrrrrr” closing the door of our new robotic feeder, knowing that our greedy cat has approached it and been denied.

Finished reading: A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman 📚

I really enjoy a Saturday morning breakfast on my patio.

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.

Finished reading: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell 📚

Reading an article in The Atlantic about how old people don’t understand how young people use punctuation feels like an ouroboros.

For the record, the best tasting Chessmen cookie is the knight.

I recognize that the decentralization problem is really hard and an overall strength of the Internet, but it’s 2026 and there’s still no easy way to find out the holiday hours of my neighborhood CVS.

Finished reading: Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins 📚

Finished reading: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI - How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late by Cory Doctorow 📚

My latest piece for the DadZone up at Richmond Family Magazine, “Gotta Clean That Up”: Whether it’s a mess of my own making or a problem left for me by an entitled man-child who shouldn’t have been driving the forklift in the first place, there’s no one c…

Finished reading: Klara and the Sun A novel by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

Finished reading: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee 📚

For Father’s Day my kids made my earl grey cookies and got me Squirtle Goldfish.

Finished reading: There is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm 📚

Finished reading: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 📚

Currently reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman 📚

I’m older than Lumbergh was in Office Space

Family Movie Night: Office Space 🍿

Currently reading: The Apple II Age by Laine Nooney 📚

A follow up to yesterday, just this morning my bank had this warning to Safari users to turn off Cross-Site Tracking.

More and more and more, websites just don’t work in Safari (even if I turn off all privacy protecting measures).

Currently reading: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

Bogotá: How Complicated is TransMilenio?