December 31, 2024

“Celebrate while you still can Cause any second it may end . . .” – Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever Jim Rowson passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024 at age 70 from fucking cancer. (That was his term for it, and the fucking cancer deserved the abuse, the sneaky bastard.) He was a visionary…

December 17, 2024

Spotify Wrapped, King Gizzard, and the year’s best songs Spotify Wrapped kinda sucked in 2024, missing a bunch of the cool info from previous years about genres and favorite albums and more. Did you notice? Spotify ended 2023 with massive layoffs, including Scott Macdonald, the person whose insights about data analysis and genres was apparently…

December 3, 2024

Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In the early days of…

November 12, 2024

These two photos look identical to me. What I see looks like the photo on the right. I have mild deuteranomaly – red-green colorblindness. Eight percent of men are red-green colorblind. (Almost no women. It’s a genetic thing.) It’s hard to describe, because my world has a full spectrum of colors – “colorblind” does not…