St. Chris

Life’s too short to reach the top shelf.

Every price you pay to fix the situation is worth not going the wrong way, and starting to go the right way.

Found some DoodleNotes I made 10 years ago! 🎨📓✍🏼

(From the book “Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters” by Jon Acuff)

Still remember my CompuServe ID. Emailed back and forth with Roger Ebert there, as I imagine hundreds or thousands of other nerds did. Logged in on a CP/M machine in my bedroom.

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Of all people, John, you should know that was Sammy Hagar.

I hope you got some sleep!

Let me rephrase:

Josh! Moods do hit like that! Give yourself all the self-care you need! Which probably involves caringly tucking that cranky brain into bed. I know you’ve got this.

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Forsooth:

I got mistaken for a phone company on Twitter and ended up being followed by ten thousand Saudi Arabians.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

A little confused by "instead" here.

The saying isn't "fuck around, instead find out"

Ok, "sabbatical" is something we need to normalize in every career path. Everybody should get a sabbatical at some point.

Close-up screenshot of the word “NARRATOR” in a sans serif font. The T is too loosely kerned between the A and O, making the word look somewhat like “NARRA T OR”

Who kerned this?!

NARRATOR: They did not have the right mindset.

A Dickcissel in a small tree singing his heart out. He has a grey chest with large yellow patch on the chest. There is a black V in the centre of the yellow patch. He has a grey face with yellow over the eyes and near the beak.

a Gray Catbird in a tree. He is grey and has the beak open in song. There are small green leaves on the left and branches all around the bird.

A Red-winged Blackbird on a fencepost facing the camera. The bird is black with red and pale yellow on tops of the wings. The beak is open and the bird is yelling.

A Yellow-headed blackbird perched on thin dry reeds. The wings are open and the tail feathers are flared. The bird's head is tipped back and the beak is open in song. The bird is backlit by the sun.

can you hear me now? Dickcissel, Grey Catbird, Red-winged and Yellow-headed Blackbirds for #BirdOfTheDay #ShoutItOut

NO REGRETS. NO SURRENDER. BIG ANGRY MOON. I'M OUT OF RHYMES.

Look, I'm a simple woman. All I want is a part-time job at a little bookstore that pays 60-70k, this isn't that hard.

Today I heard a 22yo explain that their generation has a general understanding that the world and future we’ve given them sucks really bad so they’re just going to try to be honest and kind with each other and try to avoid the rest of us.

Honestly, this just seems correct and wise all around.

No decent person advocates for trauma.

Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.

THE MODERN WORLD CITIZENS! WE'RE IN A SEMI-DECLARED SORTA KINDA NOT OUITE WAR THING ARE YOU DOING VOUR PART?/GET TRENDING! We're all in this TOGETHER Patriot Have you changed YOUR avatar yet?| You never know ho's listening Pease speak clearly So we CAN hear you I WANT YOU TO LIKE ENDLESS WAR HASHTAGS ARE WEAPONS OF WAR by TOM TOMORROW VIRAL VIDEOS FOR VICTORY! Dump something unpleasant 8 on your head TODAY!

I think about this a lot

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social

To the tune of “I Want Candy”

Good heavens, do I feel this.

Hi. I’m an only child. Everyone else is fundamentally an only child.

Seriously: I never ask anyone if they have siblings, and it always surprises me when I learn they do. It consistently registers as an error in my mind when people I’ve known all my life mention siblings *I already know they have.*

“Our programs are fun to use.” – Unsung A blog about software craft and quality

Beagle Bros. is a showcase reason why many Gen X (and earlier) computer nerds have such an enduring fondness for Apple. You had to be there — but if you were, it changed the wiring of your brain for the better. When we say the company has lost its way, this is the way we mean.

(From @aresluna.org.)

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

My migraines used to last a consistent three-and-a-half hours. They could (and still do) hit anytime, even waking me up in the middle of the night. Now I can stop them in one or two hours; sometimes I can cut them off before they even really hurt.

Everyone should have access to this kind of remedy.

I share this because I felt a migraine starting an hour and a half ago — no “halo,” just early signs of oncoming pain — and took a Ubrelvy. The migraine did get worse as usual, but after less than an hour, I suddenly felt a release, and in a few minutes it was completely gone. Seriously: magic.

I get migraines. Not constantly, but they fairly disable me when they hit. My doctor prescribed Ubrelvy, and no lie: It’s magic. Within two hours, the headache evaporates, dramatically.

This is not an ad. If I could do paid endorsements, I’d be living off influencer fees from Yamaha and Ibanez.