I just realized it’s probably been 25+ years since I heard a song start to slowly lose tempo and grind to a ghoulish, warbled halt because the batteries were dying in my cassette player.
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Okay. This freaked me out. I have been riding bikes my whole life and have no idea how they work. You probably don’t either. – via @kottke (of course)
I am loving Wordle. I wish I could play more than once per day, though.
If you have kids, I highly recommend subscribing to the Daily Dad newsletter. It’s a little nugget of great parenting advice every day.
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet so cool your jets on that Best of 2021 article, captain.
A fun part of parenthood is routinely getting into 6 AM arguments over things like whether Tom Hanks was in Ghostbusters, why you must wear shoes to school, or which day of the week it is.
I don’t know if I can handle another sideways flat-screen mirror-embedded exercise device commercial.
Single-use plastic is going to bury us all.
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“It’s not cancel culture unless it comes from the Cancelle region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling consequences.”
– via Michael Burns
I cannot fathom why so many of Publix Greenwise organic products are paradoxically packaged in single-use non-biodegradable plastic.
The Venn diagram of people who eat organic and people who hate plastics is just a circle!