One of my new year’s resolutions is to block even more useless/annoying sites at the hosts level. One particular site already makes my skin crawl with all of their haughty users “answering” questions by openly insulting people/rejecting the question outright/answering completely incorrectly (this is nothing new, I think it was the CEO who acknowledged some of this years ago) ... there’s this jackass sidebar of unrelated slop for every post. This was half of the garbage on a test query “duh global variables function python duh.” B L O C K E D

I like chewy info-dense websites but this can get stuffed in a bin.

Drew’s Campfire: The Hidden Order in Chaos ‒ 4,000,000 Double Pendulums [26min]. (via jon)

The strip for 2025 is now available. I wrote about how this is created here. YMMV. Less blathering than last three years; I was off doing something else like sorting my frozen food dinner tray collection by weight ... also I am now putting my endless carping about videogames in separate accessible webpages instead of here. I have smashed the whole strips thing into a mess, seen below.

I am E-Z to please, just get me a < $3 can of coffee for Christmas. That’s coming up, right? [LQQKS at calendar] “Huh.” Well, Arbor Day. Anyway, I was buying up fat stacks of some coffee ($1/can) from Grossout, not really knowing what it is. I just read the ingredients, took a ballpark guess at caffeine % (not listed, but lower than normal, turns out), went w/a can a day. Many cans later, finally looked on the bottom. MFG 2025 EXP 2026. Okay, so a company died or something. “Florence By Mills Coffee.” What in the Sam By Hill is that name. Main URL is tot. More research. Blah blah actor blah. Okay. More. Oh. It’s Eleven from Stranger Things, a show I’ve seen approximately seven minutes of many years ago. So. Stapling everything together, looks like this coffee jazz took a dive mid-2025, and they dumped the remaining cans on the secondary market. The fun reason I mention this is because there are five skabillion articles about the celebrity starting various businesses and zero articles about any of those things ending. Except now, you’re in the know. It’s a service I provide. I might be wrong. But if there’s no website for six months and Walmart is out of stock of every flavor ... going with dead. I still have some cans left. To the Ebaymobile!

PS If you haven’t explored the world of cheap thin-can coffee, don’t. I’ve gone through so many brands and 95% of them were not good (Japan’s BOSS Coffee is good; this ends the list of current good thin coffee brands I’m aware of that is not owned by some rat-fuck megacorp). Florence By Mills Coffee was good, but now it’s gone and I will savor the remaining cans like this: [FX: savors]. Though wasteful Florence By Mill Coffee “pods” apparently still exist along with a $149 Florence By Mills coffee machine thing. Maybe.

Hoog: The Hardest NASA Mission in History [35min].

Shawn Grows: The Poisonous Spice [1min].

Good Ol’ Freda trailer [2013; 2min]. Available on Kanopy for free with a US library card.

Fern: Did McKinsey Ruin Disneyland? [30min]. CW: Death, deplorable capitalism but I repeat myself, McKinsey, Disney.