morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 15hWoke up a dream where I was making paint pigments from scratch with author Sheila Heti, who was showing me how to get the pHs correct. I believe this dream was intended for someone else and there was a mixup at the factory 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Not going to go throught the timeline, but lemme explain the point of red diesel. It's sold with less tax because it's intended for farm vehicles that don't use the publicly funded roads. Which are funded partly by that tax. It's dyed red so the cops can tell you're on a public road unlawfully 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Type 1 jamming at the pdx brian fallon show but of course I’m not complaining 010
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If you're planning a trip to Tokyo and want to see the Studio Ghibli museum, tickets go on sale on the 10th of every month for entry in the following month. Except if you're reading this, it's probably the 9th for you. Don't ask how I know this. 020
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.foodcourtinsession.ca/mall-profile... Justin and company profile my favourite failed YVR mall, the mysterious Henderson Place. I think I might have found our winter juggling practice placefoodcourtinsession.caMall Profile #15: Henderson Place, by Justin McElroyHenderson Place has a good food court, a good design, a good location, and yet, a third to a quarter of all its storefronts are empty. Why? 001
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026github.com/golang/go/is... is an interesting issue because it shows how what seems like an innocuous cosmetic change can break other software at a distance. In a world with so much interdependence, it's best to do as little as possible, especially when it comes to messing with code. Even comments.github.comgo/doc: reconsider comment rewrites of `''` to `”` · Issue #54312 · golang/goIn ae3d890 as part of addressing #51082, a change was made to go/doc that rewrite all '' to ”. This makes semantic changes to comments where ' is used as a prime and '' is used as double prime, com... 020
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026@jmcelroy.bsky.social What is going on with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in... ? Apparently there is no "Pacific X Time" zone in Canada anymore? How did we let the best time zone in Canada just get cancelled?en.wikipedia.orgTime in Canada - Wikipedia 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I have a working CB radio for cheap if anyone needs one bsky.app/profile/tres... 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Geese vs Goose: how to tell them apart with two covers: Geese: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrz... (Television) Goose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP7T... (Billy Joel) Disclaimer: I like both bands, but they occupy totally different venn diagramsyoutube.comGeese - Marquee Moon (Television) - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY | December 5, 2024YouTube video by Chris Connelly 001
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hey @songfishapp.com you misspelled "Canadian" and Montreal isn't a capital city (re release 1.25). But as someone who advocates using names from different categories in test suites, I approve in general. (Think kigali, luanda, gaborone, etc. instead of "test1", "test2", "test3" ) 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026After listening to these guys for 7 years finally seeing Goose live, and in Vancouver a short walk from the condo 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026slate.com/technology/2... Another case where the cloud is no place to store permanent data - keep it on redundant local storage media (disks, thumb drives, disks in spare working computers) and update them annually. The cloud's still a good solution to let physically disparate people share data.slate.comThe Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of NonprofitsWhen the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it. 010
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026@jmcelroy.bsky.social My dad has a 30-year-old Camry with a tape deck. I borrowed it this wknd & pulled out a Throwing Muses tape I bought at a yard sale last year to finally hear it. Opened it to find a generic tape with a 1994 As It Happens clip about yvr homeless. lmk if you want it 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026According to trends.google.com/explore?q=ye... no one was using the term "Yesteryear" until Burke's book shipped in April. So please stop doing it unless you're referring to this specific book. I'm trying to search for takes on the book and running into too much cutenesstrends.google.comExplore - Google TrendsExplore what the world is searching for on Google Trends 010
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Doesn't look like ellis of lemuria hangs out here, but I'm in the 30-year-old camry tomorrow and one of the cassette tapes I pulled out is "The Plunge" at UVA, 10-19-97, taped by the man himself. There might be a reason I haven't pulled this out in almost 30 years. Will find out tomorrow.youtube.comPLUNGE @ Louisiana Music Factory JazzFest 2010YouTube video by LAMUSICFACTORY 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Got all 6 right on 1 guess and a couple of second-burning deductions 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The smoked duck bao bun at the Chef James stall at the Richmond Night Market is the best thing I've had there since I tried octopus takoyaki at an Osaka-street-food stall around 2001 when the Vancouver area market was just starting up. Will definitely go back there and get the 4-pack deal. 010
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 04/07/202650 years ago this week a Eugene Oregon hippie named Duane taught me to juggle and in retrospect changed my life. Yes, "morspin" is my juggling name, arrived at separately by many club-passing partners before I finally got the technique down. Still at it and still learning in 2026 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026slate.com/technology/2... - Not only can I not find any detailed description of the Chevy Chase-era SNL "Not For Men Only" sketch, it's not in my 1986 Hill & Weingrad history (which I can happily share archive.org/details/satu... ). Unfortunately once again what was ludicrous humor is now realslate.comThere’s a Hotline You Can Call for the Darkest Reasons Imaginable. It’s Controversial—and More Necessary Than Ever.The people answering the calls hear confessions, fears, and urges most of us would rather not think about. Demand for their help is growing. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The pet shop gave me a sample of "beef + hoki" cat food. Never heard of, it's a fish from New Zealand. Got some from the local fishmonger, marinaded it overnight, mixed it up with rice and chopped vegetables and turned out a nice hoki poké. That's what it's all about. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Thanks to a video on AI I learned journalism is the perfect career for the 3-handed 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo... Automates the last row of the NYTimes Connections puzzleaddons.mozilla.org3 Rows Down – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download 3 Rows Down for Firefox. Third-party extension that automatically clicks the last four words in the New York Times Connections puzzle. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Spent an evening with the just-arrived April '26 Atlantic issue: the articles on a failed auto-piloting Tesla by Raffi Krikorian and a failed attempt to understand sports gambling journalistically by McKay Coppins are essentially about the same thing. Coppins even names it: Chesterton's Fence 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... is such an important article. Yes, it's paywalled. I've subscribed to the atlantic since I was a starving student. This is the kind of article that has me renew it every year. TLDR: Bezos has lost the ability to empathize, and whytheatlantic.comWhat I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private RetreatFor the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026bsky.app/profile/char... - (can't comment on the thread) sounds a lot like Octavia Butler's "Kindred" but happening to a member of the oppressor class 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026@zzyzx.bsky.social addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... - timesaver if you do connections on a computer. Will be on chrome as soon as I can figure out how to do a screenshotaddons.mozilla.org3 Rows Down – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)Download 3 Rows Down for Firefox. Third-party extension that automatically clicks the last four words in the New York Times Connections puzzle. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026@zzyzx.bsky.social Not a Phish category today: (FARM)HOUSE, MONTANA, TICKET LINE, and (UNCLE) PEN(N). Not to forget CAPE. 010
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Bought me a little bit of taco dip last week. We'll see what it's like tomorrow morning 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Ended my wordle streak at 221 today. Tricky word. At least I can get off that bus now. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Should I remind all the lirdle.com players here that we're nearing the end of March. Nawwwlirdle.comLirdle: One Lie Per Line 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... - sewage backlog caused by covering sewer pipes with tiny boulders the size of large boulderstheatlantic.comWashington’s Sewage ApocalypseThis is not a metaphor. 010
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Reading Andrew Martin's "Cool For America"[*] and realizing so many recent books that mentioned tweets in the 20-teens are now stuck in that time. * And awaiting "Down Time". Tweets or not, the dude is an important voice of his generation 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Melissa Auf der Mar has a memoir out about her days as bassist in Hole and it looks like it also comes to terms with the big cultural and technical shifts that happened right around the end of the 90s. Have ordered 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026... - now I know why when people ask me what TV shows I watch I've said "Bowling for Dollars" for something like the last 40 yearstheatlantic.comThe People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture“The Pitt,” “Severance,” “Sinners,” you name it: For some reason, the more popular something is, the more likely I am to resist it. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Giving it a relisten after 30 years let’s agree the Gin Blossoms’ second album isn’t so bad. Just a letdown after their first. 3/5 stars 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Looking at the map at www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/03/04/b... one of the safest places to bike in the Seattle area is right in the middle of Boeing Fieldseattlebikeblog.com‘Bike mechanic turned internet mechanic’ creates mapping tool of people killed or injured while walking or biking in WASnapshot of deaths and serious injuries in Seattle between 1/30/2015 and 1/30/2026 (more recent data may be incomplete). From CrashMap. Nick Magruder is a self-described “bike mechanic turned… 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026So KUOW (Seattle NPR radio) is covering Phil Spencer's retirement from XBox/MSFT. I taught him hypertext generation at the start of his career, impressed with how he stickhandled his career. 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Today’s camry cassette: Canadian roots band’s debut “Toute la Gang” featuring the woefully underrated Michelle Rumball 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Today’s camry cassettes: Tge Freewheelers’ self-titled debut album and Trout Fishing in America’s “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction “ 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Cassette camry day. Today’s tape is from exactly 35 years ago. Ottawa CKCU American Acoustic featuring rarities by Michelle Shocked and Susanne Vega 000
morspin @morspin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... - Jason Fried (37 signals/the Rails guy's partner) on how tech has failed in the home in so many ways. (prob why people are nostalgic for the 90s - things were advanced but they also just worked). W Hotel light panel I'm looking at youtheatlantic.comSmart Homes Are TerribleYou shouldn’t need a tech tour and app to turn the lights on. 000
