Safe As Milk

This Far Side cartoon is an all-time favorite of mine. To the point where it has become a punchline for us here at home whenever someone pushes a door labeled “pull”.

I lol’d at the Washington Post’s mini crossword clue this morning.

Balatro on iOS is going to be a problem for workday productivity.

There can’t be many of us still playing this game, but I housed a new high (low?) score last night.

Holedown is still my go-to “don’t wanna scroll but wanna use my phone” game. I don’t see it getting dethroned until Balatro comes to iOS, and when that happens we can kiss my carpal tunnels goodbye.

Twenty one years ago I got a wild hair and spent a steamy holiday Friday afternoon installing Movable Type.

I can’t tell you how long it took me to find and resize that image of a glass of milk.

It was revelatory, following some printed instructions to install some code on a server which would enable me to be just like Kottke. I read more than a handful of blogs back then, but he was the inspiration. The archetype of what blogs were.

I harbored hopes that I might get some traction as a poor-man’s kottke (or a “we have kottke at home” in modern parlance), but that didn’t pan out. I lacked the drive to post with the necessary consistancy (obvs.).

That said, I am glad to have had this blog as a place to occasionally burp a thought or photo into the world.

I have a group chat with some friends where we share phone game scores and results. They’re technically Youngs, and they give me juuuuust the right amount of ribbing for my advanced age.

It took me a year to get into Breath of the Wild after I bought it, but it eventually became an all-time fave game of mine.

I pre-ordered the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom, and started playing as soon as I got it last week. I’m about 12 hours in and it’s good so far.

I spent a couple of hours last week playing the old one to get a handle on the controls again, which was very smart. I’m a goddamn genius.