benbrown.txt

One of my favorite authors, James Patrick Kelly, has a new book coming out in a few days about an AI assistant that outlives its owner.

DIE SPITZ, one of the best new Austin bands in years, has a new music video.

DEAR INTERNET, My kids are done with school and I wish I was done with everything.

Today is the last day of school!

Oh hey there!

Over the weekend, I got a wild hair and decided to make an app to help me manage my large library of retro videogame ROMs.

Here is a video of me showing off the cool custom firmware I made for the LilyGo Pager.

I first learned about the ESP32 chip from my friend Wrew when he initially posted about porting the B00km4rk project.

I enjoy living in an area filled with wild animals, even though I live in the city.

LOOK MAN, I will be the first to admit that I have a lot of bags and pouches and you would be totally in the right to say, BEN MAN, DID YOU REALLY NEED TO BUY ANOTHER BAG??

More people than ever are spending more time than ever jacked into their computer terminal - DON'T YOU WORRY WHY - so there has never been a better time to introduce... a Max Headroom in every terminal!

I have been tinkering with a few text editing tools to help me produce the most beautiful possible text files.

I love this blog post by Matt Webb about the need for a way to keep track of all the cool weird stuff people are making these days.

I go through phases where I read a lot of books, and those phases are the best phases.

I just deployed an update to the *rolls eyes at self* custom CMS I use to manage this site.

Today is NEW COMIC BOOK DAY once again!

I am nearing the end of Dorohedoro, the 23-volume manga.

Here's another shot of our new cow skull.

Someone is working on a Mac app to handle syncing music to the Snowsky Echo Mini.

Holy cow, my old partner in crime Bryan Boyer has been featured in the New York Times because of his cool courtyard house project.

Our regular coffee shop haunt has a "Twin Peaks" themed "Black Lodge" as the entrance - it is shrouded in tall red curtains, and there are two mid-century style chairs side by side and a cardboard Venus De Milo.

I am a fairly "connected" dude, I have a lot of "smart" devices and I do some basic home automation stuff.

I hate McDonalds.

Phil Gyford put together this comprehensive page all about Wired Books.

I know at least a few of you out there will want to sport these rad LEGO wipEout desktop wallpaper designs.

There is a new Head Lopper #1 coming to your local comic book shop on Wednesday, April 22.

Oh baby, there’s a brand new teaser for the upcoming Godzilla: Minus Zero movie!!!!

Over the years, my phone has taken more of my time by gobbling up all my hobbies and transforming itself into my everything machine.

I bought a Snowsky Echo Mini mp3 player.

Speaking of the shuffle lifestyle, this one came on at random the other day when I was driving and introduced me to the existence of THE CHATS, a punk band from Australia.

* This is what I write in sample code now when I start a new project instead of "hello world." # HELLO.

Today I am wearing my cool FRONT 242 concert teeshirt from their "last ever tour" tour that I went to a while back.