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Watching America's Most Wanted with my parents (far too young) and the episode ended with "The murderer has not yet been caught and was last seen in Arlington, Virginia" (one town over).

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 23h

season finale of a primetime medical drama Coldplay's "Fix You" plays behind the final scene show is about veterinarians spaying pets

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 04/10/2026

They finally made the bunny face the front after years of requiring "a thumb in the bum" to get to the mac and cheese.

The side of a mac and cheese box with a smiling bunny over the words PUSH TO OPEN.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 03/10/2026

Watched Super Mario Galaxy with the kids. Great fan service for old folks, but viscerally exhausting for me to watch, like "downtime" has become a bad word in movie-making. (Kids loved it unequivocally though).

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Janny Wurts @jannywurts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apologists still doubt that artists and original creators are not being ripped off by the slop machine: Left image is a Maitz oil painting commissioned as an anniversary celebration for a couple as period pirates. Right hand image is a cheat using the slop machine swipe version of the same image.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 02/10/2026

Bart Simpson prank call: "Is your computer running?" Alan Turing: "That's undecidable!"

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 02/10/2026

Our pouch is currently > 1" thick!

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 02/10/2026

In this household we treat stickers like rare video game potions -- saved reverently in a pouch for a perfect opportunity that never comes.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 01/10/2026

The 9-year-old just realized that the Calvin and Hobbes "noodle incident" is never once explained in the comic.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 01/10/2026

Missing the days when the title bar of any given program wasn't completely cluttered with add-ons, and you could click-and-drag it around on the first try.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 01/10/2026

Dark Matter, S1 (AppleTV+) was great. It avoids the obvious tropes and its unpredictable path rewards patient viewing. Last 2 episodes are perfect.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 01/10/2026

Get Duked! and deep-fried beetroot waffles.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 30/09/2026

Dark Matter S1E8 just went off the deep end and I'm here for it.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

[sick guitar riff intensifies] was not a subtitle I expected to read in a nature documentary.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

alxwtf.com - Zebra's new location guessing game.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

They should breed a chicken that's all thigh meat.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

They should invent a LinkedIn where paragraphs can be longer than 1 sentence.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

Not sour fans, but we enjoy Sticky Rice a surprising amount.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

They should make a Fire Emblem game that's 90% tactical combat and 10% relationship management.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

I get that the show's called "Dark" Matter but a few more ambient light sources in each scene would be great.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 28/09/2026

We went in 2015. I recall our Rick Steves guidebook arguing that Geneva was the worst, so we only did 1 day between other cities. Jet d'Eau was underwhelming (and turned off completely for 20 minutes out of every hour). We enjoyed gelato and people watching in Place du Bourg de-Four.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 27/09/2026

Thinking back fondly on the out-of-the-way BP gas station that sold gas for 79 cents per gallon in Salem, VA in the year 2000.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 27/09/2026

After a couple of puzzle-free months, I've started sketching out the arc of puzzlehunt Trek #16. Expecting it to be about 9 puzzles long and available towards the end of October.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 27/09/2026

Empire of AI by Karen Hao. Imperfect and sprawling, with a common flaw of tech books: the author's too close to the action and assumes you know key players / events. First and last parts are page-turners, but the middle gets bogged down in humanizing tangents and weak thematic connections.

Kindle cover of Empire of AI by Karen Hao.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 27/09/2026

As streaming services go, AppleTV+ has: best price, worst interface, and a few really great prestige shows in a sea of prestige misfire. We get it for a few months each year then rotate to another service.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 26/09/2026

Perfectly normal. Sounds like a town I made in Sim City 2000.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 26/09/2026

Halfway through the season and it's morphed into WINE ALIAS. All it's missing is Michael Vartan speaking French.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 26/09/2026

Online passport renewal claims it takes 4-6 weeks, but I just went from form submission to passport in hand in 11 days. Nice to see a gov function still humming along effectively.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 26/09/2026

Update: It tasted even better than it looked.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

This might be the most beautiful, perfectly cooked, generously portioned delivery pizza I've seen in years. Nice job, anonymous Jet's Pizza worker.

A Detroit-style pizza with black olives, mushrooms, and pepperoni sits in a box.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

Trying to convince the AppleTV+ UI that I don't actually have 2 more minutes of every episode to watch (the credits).

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

nor'easter implies the existence of xor'easter

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

This one worked better as a standalone for me. The sequel meandered in directions that didn't keep my interest.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

Every day should be Take Your Kids to Work Day for that sweet HOV credit.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

Guy who keeps saying "let's touch base" (he was banned from the science lab for unsafe practices)

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 25/09/2026

Visited my parents in West End ALX today. Yard was fortified against Holmes Run deer with soap bars, ultrasonic alarms, and netting. Two fawns were chilling in the driveway, inches away from an alarm, munching on flora.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 22/09/2026

Finally used up the last of my ancient CFL lightbulb stash. Not a single one ever lasted as long as advertised -- mostly only made it a few years.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 22/09/2026

I'm playing Avowed right now and it's really scratching the "charmingly clunky old-school Skyrim" itch.

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Brian Uri! @urizone.net · 22/09/2026

My parents purchased Zork I for our monochrome 8086 in Fall 1986. I played it constantly then "programmed" my own game as a transcript in WordPerfect. This led to a book on BASIC programming in 3rd grade and the release of my own text adventure, Augmented Fourth, much later in 2000.