David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 19/07/2026I present the Trajan Horse. I will be taking no questions. 1215
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 21/02/2026He has the proportionate strength and agility of the radioactive pac that bit him 010
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 13/01/2026Flashback to when you could get a cool job in the newspaper classifieds. From the Sunday NYTimes this week in 2000. And that’s how I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s staff photographer for the next 7 years. 290
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 13/10/2025The great thing about AI is that you can remake movies the way you remember them 130
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 19/09/2025Fun story: The Flatiron was supposed to be called the Fuller Building, for the architect George Fuller. But nobody called it that. Everyone called it the Flatiron. So when the Fuller company built their new HQ in midtown, they put “Fuller Building” on it in big letters so that wouldn’t happen again. 020
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 15/08/2025Making my annual pilgrimage to the Classic Arcade Museum 020
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 10/08/2025I've added new features to my new DOOMScroll game prototype! New: Simple weapon upgrades, and flames chasing you to keep you moving. More to come, but you can play the prototype now at ironicsans.com/doomscroll/ 120
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 08/08/2025My first GPT-5 vibe-coding experiment is a game I’ve been wanting to make for a while and now I have a simple but playable prototype. I present: DOOMscroll! The game you play just by scrolling. ironicsans.com/doomscroll/ 261
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 03/07/2025Pretty sure I saw Tinkerbell commuting to work this morning. 100
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 24/06/2025Bit of an overreach from Apple promoting their new movie by literally printing its name on every computer they sell. We get it, Apple. 0122
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 15/06/2025Amazon’s proof-of-delivery photo wasn’t strictly necessary this time since there were two witnesses. 0141
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 03/05/2025Drove past this graveyard full of dead people named Rosemary 030
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 03/05/2025Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. 140
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 03/05/2025There are some really cool comics on offer today for Free Comic Book Day but I especially love this “work in progress” edition of the comic adaptation of the Dark Mirror episode San Junipero. www.freecomicbookday.com 062
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 01/05/2025And as I put down the phone, it occurred to me: My boy was just like me. He'd grown up just like me. 0123
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 19/04/2025In case you haven’t seen it yet, this seems to be the answer from an interview with the screenwriter. 160
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 14/04/2025Visiting my parents, going through my old comic book collection. 140
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 02/04/2025Just remembered a drawing I did of Val Kilmer in dry erase marker back in high school, when I had a monthly gig as the "coming soon dry erase board" guy at my local video store in exchange for free rentals. 050
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 16/02/2025I use Hazel for filing but there are always one-off files that don't fit any of my rules and pile up. So I used ChatGPT to write a script that uses a local LLM (so nothing leaves my computer) to examine and rename those files according to guidelines. I'm still refining it, but it's promising so far! 030
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 10/02/2025I submitted a Freedom Of Information request to the NYC Mayor's office 18 months ago. I just got yet another notice of extension. I don't even need this information anymore but I'm keeping the request open as a matter of principle. 030
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 23/01/2025Reading an article in the NY Times I noticed that their curly quotes are not always using the quote character but two curly apostrophes. Elsewhere on the same page it uses the quote character. Any theories on why? (It's not always a quote-within-a-quote where I see it, but sometimes it is) 330
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 22/01/2025Thanks to a Trump Executive Order, the department known as USDS, which always stood for U.S. Digital Service, has been renamed U.S. DOGE Service. This means that the D in the initialism USDS now stands for an acronym. Is this the only department with a recursive acronym or initialism? 010
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 22/01/2025I finally removed X from #Gisnep's "share your results" pop-up. Here's before and after. Maybe I should just remove them all and have one big "copy to clipboard" button instead. 120
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 21/01/2025Sad to see that Jules Feiffer has died. But it gives me an excuse to share this odd photo of young me falling asleep at a table with Kung Fu star David Carradine and Jules Feiffer. 182
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 09/01/2025Last time I was at CES, there was a guy with a booth promoting his invention, the Smart Potato. He even made an amazing marketing video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWmO... 1101
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 29/12/2024Finally, a mac menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time github.com/Jaennaet/pISSStream 0124
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 05/12/2024Reminds me that in high school I had a monthly gig doing the artwork on the dry erase board at my local video store. They paid me in rental credits. I used to try to hand-draw the movie logos but it wasn't always easy to do in dry erase markers. 050
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 02/12/2024There may be a bug of some sort. Some prices are crossed out as though on sale, and then show the exact same price next to it. Examples attached. 000
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 22/11/2024And the award for best science paper of the year goes to “Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn” www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… 000
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 20/11/2024Of all my ideas that never caught on, I really thought I had a winner with T-Shirts For Hairy Chested Men 081
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 17/11/2024Robert: Hey, guys. Has anyone seen Vance? Elon: No, not since the election. Junior: Too bad he's not here to enjoy these burgers. Donald: I gave him a special task that needs to be... well done. Now eat up, everyone. 050
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 16/11/2024So it turns out that when my son asked for a poster of LBJ for his birthday, he meant LeBron James 1264
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 15/11/2024I once thought it would be funny to make a bot account that shared "Doctor Who" news by which I mean articles with headlines that contain the phrase "Doctor Who" but are not about Doctor Who. I could never figure out a search that reliably filtered out the right Doctor Who stories. 062
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 11/11/2024I'm planning to remove X from the "share your score" options on gisnep.com. But I'm considering leaving it and adding a popup that scolds people for still being on X if they click the X logo. What should it say? 120
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 11/11/2024This lovely LEGO set celebrates the engineering of the Brooklyn Bridge and you can help turn it from a product idea into a real set! ideas.lego.com/projects/04c63c3e-ce… 140
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 08/11/2024For all the new X escapees, I'm re-sharing my Chrome plug-in SkipX. Inevitably you're going to click a link to X and find yourself bombarded by whatever crap has bubbled up that day. SkipX intercepts and just embeds the post on a blank page. Instructions in the zip: ironicsans.com/SkipX.zip 021
David Friedman @ironicsans.com · 07/11/2024I am constantly reminded of this 25 year old New Yorker cartoon 010
![PHOTOGRAPHER
Leading Fashion Company seeks staff photographer. Subjects include showroom interiors, store windows as well as product. Demonstrated proficiency in the use of 4x5 camera. Heavy volume. Full benefits. Please fax resume to CWP 212-[phone number]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6sne4h2aclkw5qo4an4scmmg/bafkreiaikvgvs6a2lweh3dq6seoxrasg7mrddtnkatt5u4ocbj2otyjjoa)
!["We tried to get Spider-Man. That was our big push and that's who we wanted.
[Marvell were like no, no, no," screenwriter David Simkins explained following a screening in Hollywood on Friday. "We went through the whole list [of characters] and then finally I think Marvel came to us and said, 'We've got this Thor guy. Just take him and use him and do whatever you want with it. It doesn't matter to us.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6sne4h2aclkw5qo4an4scmmg/bafkreie6eobnevczcvrmhlmyawmujfgcd6m4t5gyxylfxgyl4ta65pzpca)
