Matthew Haughey

I turned on Fox to watch the world baseball classic and this Fox Sports ad was playing and I immediately wondered where they were going with this message (it ended up being about NASCAR)

thanks to @helenkennedy.com this week I dove into the audiobook version of Project Hail Mary and it's maybe twice as good as The Martian and I loved The Martian? I am devouring this as fast as I can before I see the film. I'm kicking myself for not reading the book earlier.

I emailed a question to a small biz I shopped at months ago and got a multi paragraph answer in less than a minute.

Wow I thought (at first)! Then I noticed a patronizing tone, the restating of my points, and a wild guess at a solution.

Don’t farm out your customer service to AI, it’s annoying.

Netflix must be completely out of ideas because I've yet to see John McCrea be a guest judge on any episode of Is It Cake? (he's lead singer in the band Cake)

Yesterday I did Sunday Brunch at Salty's overlooking the Columbia River and even though food was $90/person it was an insanely fun experience to spend a couple hours inside a timewarp, feeling like I was at a high end casino buffet in 1987. This review nails the vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3m0u9H4tCA

warning: I've become a guy who gives everyone he knows a cutting board as a gift from now on

I haven't seen either of Timothée Chalamet's 2025 films yet but it's weird seeing him get all the praise for a ping pong movie but nothing for the other one where he spent 2yrs learning to play a guitar and sing. Is the Dylan movie that bad? It seems like *way* more hard work for an actor from afar.

Someone tried to scam me today, posing as my boss, mentioning two coworkers by their unique names, they even texted me to make sure I saw their emails.

In the end it was an “emergency” that I had to buy Apple gift cards for a random Gmail account so now I’ll see how long I can keep them on the line

it's 1984 and I occasionally take breaks from school to assemble lego to keep my mind off a republican president pushing towards thermonuclear war

it's 2026 and I occasionally take breaks from work to assemble lego to keep my mind off a republican president pushing towards thermonuclear war

RE: @daveshea@cosocial.ca

Jealous, as always, of friends that live 300 miles north of me on the other side of an imaginary line where local laws seem entirely sane.

I tried using Gemini for the first time. It did not go well. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/trying-ai-and-failing/

I watched Sesame Street religiously growing up but I somehow never saw this clip until yesterday. It’s powerful and incredible and I bet it changed kids lives for the better that day. https://youtube.com/shorts/o-lf4NdOZ90

The only photos I take using the dedicated photo buttons on a new iPhone are accidental

is it in bad taste to say videos like this make me hungry?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills every year I watch the Olympics. They act like the most important thing to track is medal counts by country, so viewers know who is “best” but I don’t care where anyone is from, I just want to see the best possible performances in every sport.

My main old man thing now is I love to grab a huge glass, pour a 12oz can of lime La croix in, then pour a 8oz tiny coca cola into the same glass.

It has caffeine and it’s sweet but just enough, not sickly so like a real coke.

I wish they sold this in stores.

RE: @carnage4life@mas.to

I am deeeeeeeply skeptical of AI bullshit but I have to agree with this assessment that even if Siri could fo half of this stuff, it could be life changingly good.

Yesterday I saw two groups asking for signatures to help ban Mail-In Voting in Oregon, a thing that’s been in place since the 1990s and is an incredibly convenient, wonderful way to vote when you’re a busy person.

It’s remarkable to watch these Fox News-pilled assholes punch themselves in the face

Two EV test mules being driven on the 126 freeway near Ventura California. I don’t know what these are—maybe a new Hyundai or Toyota EV coming out?

After a long Oregon winter, it was really nice seeing flowers, sun, wearing shorts, and sunsets in California again

My personal pet hypothesis after 20 years of annual trips to Disneyland is that post-pandemic everyone went YOLOWTF and there’s no longer a “slow season” at the parks. A random Thursday in February 2018 at Disneyland would have been a ghost town, today, hella packed.

Current Status

I take fandom and my cosplay seriously, and suddenly Disneyland wants to charge me with ✌️public indecency✌️ and put me on a ✌️ sex offender database ✌️ while ignoring my historically-accurate Winnie the Pooh outfit of a red t-shirt and accompanying nudity.

Last year, I started getting daily funding pleas from OPB, my local public broadcaster that I've supported for years in the past. It was annoying and constant and I guess indicative of a new CEO from CNN that is gutting the network, dictating stories, and canceling shows.

https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dream-journalism-job-heres

American athletes constantly being asked at Olympic press conferences about the US president calling one of USA’s own athletes “a real loser” really brings back “there’s a horse loose in a hospital” vibes.

When megastars like Beyonce or Bad Bunny do a Super Bowl halftime show, the music and production is always incredible but they're also loaded with meaning on every level. I loved hearing about all the themes and context for what Benito was doing during the whole amazing show https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1qzrg6d/comment/o4d9j9x/

I just finished a bathtub shelf, made out of Sapele hardwood for my wife for Valentine's day.

I carefully cut miters so the grain runs continuously from one end to the other. Put it all together with Festool dominos. I'll add an angled MagSafe mount so she can read books on her phone in the tub

Yesterday’s Alex Pretti memorial ride in Portland ended by passing the Portland ICE facility and of course ICE tear-gassed the crowd, including kids on bikes.

Thursday in Salem, Oregon, feds tore a US citizen’s rotator cuff yanking her out of a car window.

The Minneapolis surge really is coming for us all.