David Fry @davidfry.com · 29/09/2026Dahlia bulbs are fun gifts because you don't know what you're getting for months. We got these from our friend Lynda and have our first gorgeous bloom! 250
David Fry @davidfry.com · 11/09/2026We've got a neighborhood picnic coming up, so I asked Google's AI for some suggestions. This potluck is going to be one to remember! 131
David Fry @davidfry.com · 24/08/2026The last 4 years have been such an anomaly that it's hard not to think we've already passed some sort of tipping point with climate change. Even among Democrats, there is so little discussion on this issue. But I have to wonder how long Republicans can continue calling this a hoax. 161
David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/08/2026YouTube AI slop has come for America's past time. It's really sad because there are millions of people in this country who know way too much baseball trivia and would happily share that knowledge, and who would never make this mistake. But the algorithms fill every channel with garbage. 020
David Fry @davidfry.com · 04/08/2026A real estate company sent us a junk mail postcard today that featured a picture of our house from Google Street View, which happened to include me in the picture like a bigfoot sighting. 050
David Fry @davidfry.com · 28/07/2026It had already loaded it's other AI support attempt, Suggested Solutions, referring me to other support tickets with the same issue, none of which had been resolved. It's almost like they don't have the humans to support their product, and are papering over that with increasingly inept AI systems. 120
David Fry @davidfry.com · 24/07/2026Had a fun lunch at Mojito, a Cubano accompanied by a mojito, of course. This restaurant is a great supporter of Seattle communities, including letting volunteers use their commercial catering kitchen for food bank food prep. 050
David Fry @davidfry.com · 23/07/2026I took this self portrait with my daughter in the Chihuly Garden beneath the Space Needle. What a beautiful, wondrous space they've created there. 180
David Fry @davidfry.com · 22/07/2026Here for my first WNBA game. Storm leads Lynx 45 to 44! Hoping for a big upset. #wnba #storm 170
David Fry @davidfry.com · 15/07/2026This is the first year I've gotten very ambitious with carrots. this variety is Napoli and they are delicious but don't keep well, even when refrigerated. So every day I grab one as a snack. 260
David Fry @davidfry.com · 15/07/2026"If you'll stop calling people white nationalists, then I'm open to the idea of not being one", is just the reverse of this cartoon and one more example of Murc's Law in action. 020
David Fry @davidfry.com · 07/07/2026Just testing something out here to see how bsky handles links within animated SVG files. 110
David Fry @davidfry.com · 06/07/2026The exact midpoint between our Slurm future and our Brawndo future. 120
David Fry @davidfry.com · 03/07/2026This is Daisy's favorite chair. We bought it at a garage sale because it looked like the chair my granddad used to sit in reading westerns, and I thought maybe I could sit in it and read a book. But there's just not room for both of us. 170
David Fry @davidfry.com · 24/06/2026I got my Slate pre-order locked in today. They're saying 7 to 10 months for delivery. I've only wanted a small EV light truck for ages. 140
David Fry @davidfry.com · 20/06/2026We took our good girl Petunia to the vet for a checkup today. She's about 7 weeks shy of her Gotcha Day, so she's 19 years old now. 2436545224
David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/06/2026I'm growing a new variety of kohlrabi this year, Konstance, and they are a gorgeous purple. We're gonna get all the antioxidants this summer! #garden 2101
David Fry @davidfry.com · 01/06/2026The dawn redwood I planted in the yard is still growing strong. It's over 6 feet after 2 years, and I suspect it might get much taller through the growing season. I bought this at the going out of business sale for Gindhart's Nursery on Peoria Road. 040
David Fry @davidfry.com · 23/05/2026Never give up! Never surrender! Here's to year 8 of trying to grow okra in the PNW. 040
David Fry @davidfry.com · 23/05/2026We ate dinner at Sada Sushi tonight, a very belated Mothers' Day dinner. We were seated at the weird table in the corner which is decorated with a vase filled with Andes Mint wrappers, and a bunch of small cats folded from chopstick wrappers. So we added our own. Hot tip: go to Sada, order ika. 010
David Fry @davidfry.com · 23/05/2026Saw this poem in an alley. Corvallis is such a great town! "Pausing To Hear A Mountain" Greg Kleiner, Corvallis, Oregon 110
David Fry @davidfry.com · 09/05/2026Trader Joe's tinned calamari is really good! Thanks to a deeply weird guy in the r/sardines subreddit for the heads up. 130
David Fry @davidfry.com · 30/04/2026It's that time of year. We always let a few kale plants go to seed, and the #bees in our garden just love them. 1212
David Fry @davidfry.com · 21/04/2026A neighbor who is a pastor wore this shirt at the celebration when his mother came back from heart transplant surgery. I think they see these shirts purely as a political provocation without understanding how it comes across to the rest of us that he fantasizes about murdering an imaginary intruder. 110
David Fry @davidfry.com · 24/03/2026Flowering currants are blooming! These grow wild in the wooded part of our backyard. 020
David Fry @davidfry.com · 10/02/2026If you live near an asian store like Daiso, they have little egg timers that go right in the boiling water and change color to help get the eggs just how you like them. I still struggle with peeling soft boiled eggs reliably, but this gets them cooked perfect. 060
David Fry @davidfry.com · 08/02/2026While this account will remain primarily focused on soup, I do enjoy salads as well, and have been eating a lot lately. So tonight we made croutons from homemade Italian sweet bread and garlic. They came out really crunchy! 130
David Fry @davidfry.com · 07/02/2026CRITICAL SOUP ALERT! 🍜🚨 KH Pho & Grill has added a Pho Rib to their menu which is excellent. 130
David Fry @davidfry.com · 05/02/2026When I was a kid, we had the same mercury thermometer for decades. New digital thermometers are basically disposable, using a tiny watch battery less than 8mm across. If someone in your family gets sick, sorry, the battery's dead. Have fun chasing around town for an LR41 watch battery. 040
David Fry @davidfry.com · 31/01/2026Corvallis High School has a stream that passes through campus. After a basketball game this evening, we saw this nutria just chilling in the grass. 190
David Fry @davidfry.com · 22/01/2026Who needs a gym membership when you've got a wheelbarrow, a shovel, and two big piles of rocks? 090
David Fry @davidfry.com · 17/01/2026Trying out the plate lunches from Local Grindz in Sweet Home. We got pulled pork, curry katsu and yakisoba noodles. 250
David Fry @davidfry.com · 09/01/2026I've seen a lot of little free libraries, but today I saw my first little free bakery with FREE CAKE!!! And it's really good cake! #littlefreebakeryroosevelt 050
David Fry @davidfry.com · 03/01/2026This brass Assistance Buzzer plaque with engraved braille is fun because they removed the buzzer button but left the classy signage behind. Made you look! 110
David Fry @davidfry.com · 03/01/2026The guy at the Albany train station is a super nice dude, but i don't understand why these haven't been fixed for over a year. I love rail transit, but what a mess when the train is 2 hours and 40 minutes late. The snack machine is also broken. 240
David Fry @davidfry.com · 29/12/2025I've been trying to spend a bit more time, particularly during the holidays, on various creative pursuits. We had a family painting party the other night, and I painted this picture of my daughter and I. (That's me on the left.) #art #painting 090
David Fry @davidfry.com · 13/12/2025Here's the nabe. Tonight's was a slightly spicy vegetarian tonkatsu broth with ham, crab, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, noodles, tofu, and bamboo shoots. 050
David Fry @davidfry.com · 07/12/2025We made the Hina's insta feed. Her dedication to posting on socials is impressive. 020
David Fry @davidfry.com · 06/12/2025Hina's Island Grindz! OMG! She sent us off with 30 pounds of food and wouldn't let us pay. 4100
David Fry @davidfry.com · 18/11/2025Philips Norelco says their new shaver is Powered by AI, and this is only slightly less dumb than the cartoon about AI peas. Presumably John's goal here is to have his face shaved, which he can either track on his phone, or using the more traditional technique of just look in the mirror, John. 071
David Fry @davidfry.com · 08/11/2025If you didn't get your hands on Tillamook Butternaise, you can just mix butter and Kewpie mayonnaise in a little bowl before you spread it on the bread. It works great! 110