Communications From Elsewhere

Transcribed, ironically, by a local LLM running on my laptop (with capitalization and punctuation from me): Get in, losers, I’m about to crash out on main over AI and music, and it’s about damn time, too.

I just subscribed to the substack of Joshua Heath Scott, founder of JHS Pedals, on the strength of a section of his recent post about the backlash to the band Geese for using a viral marketing firm: THE GEESE BACKLASH IS THE DUMBEST DISCOURSE OF 2026 by J…

(Spoiler: Betteridge’s Law of Headlines applies here.)

Or, in some cases, maybe just “lies”.

(Something I wrote for work, although I’m not sure who I wrote it for, because this isn’t something I’m going to share with the people I support, and it’s not something any of my coworkers really need to know.

I’m not sure I could tell this one apart from the Paldo “Volcano Chicken” in a blind test, and since I don’t have them both in front of me to compare them now, I’m not sure what I can say to distinguish them from each other.

To answer my question from the Shin Light review: yes, these noodles are more substantial.

This one has air-dried noodles rather than fried, and claims 75% less fat and 25% fewer calories than regular Shin ramen.

I’m going to try a thing here for a while: ramen reviews.

I’m writing it down this time, because every time I make tamales it takes me a while to recreate the proportions and method, and every time I have a few early batches which are gummy or sticky or what have you.