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Would you drive an almond, a hot dog, or a potato?

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  • Vehicles shaped like food

    Would you drive an almond, a hot dog, or a potato?

  • 368 Chickens

    368 Chickens is a deceptively simple, addicting tile matching game. In a 6×6 grid, you attempt to create matches of three or more of four different chickens. My best score in 71.

  • Cheap consumer goods defeated communism

    Amanda Mull makes the case that post WWII style capitalism with affordable consumer goods defeated communism. And for the better part of the last 60 to 70 years helped American companies maintain that power. The tarriff war will likely end that.

  • Editorial Negligence

    In high school, a prerequisite for being on the newspaper staff was talking the journalism class. A lesson that stuck with me was the concept of editorial discretion–being able to judge something as (news) worthy and including it in your coverage. Editors hold tremendous sway, even in a dying industry, to determine what enters the…

  • Improvising a band concert

    I’m a firm believer most people are good people. After Trump canceled a concert performance for a diverse group of high schoolers, military band members rallied and helped 22 of those students put on the performance.

  • Waymo crashes less than human drivers

    Maybe we’ll get driverless cars some day. Waymo vehicles are showing promise, crashing less than human drivers. Last September, I analyzed Waymo crashes through June 2024. So this section will focus on crashes between July 2024 and February 2025. During that period, Waymo reported 38 crashes that were serious enough to either cause an (alleged) injury or…

  • COBOL runs the world

    If Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook operate the surface level, what you can see of modern business, COBOL is the collective history of plumbing keeping a business functioning. Especially when it comes to financials. Consider: Over 80% of in-person transactions at U.S. financial institutions use COBOL. Fully 95% of the time you swipe your bank card,…

  • Salmon Swimming

    Salmon Swimming, 2024digital illustration

  • 2025 Barkley Marathon

    The Barkley Marathon is a unique and rugged ultramarathon. After 5 people completed the race last year, the race was made more difficult.

  • White House social media strategy

    Washington Post explores the new White House social media machine After years of working to undermine mainstream outlets and neutralize critical reporting, Trump’s allies are now pushing a parallel information universe of social media feeds and right-wing firebrands to sell the country on his expansionist approach to presidential power. For the Trump team, that has…