Microblog

  • Will this finally break the two party system? One can hope.

  • I’m thinking of moving a bunch of my WP sites to a single multisite. Anyone want to talk me out of it, or do you support this decision?

  • I’m honestly surprised by the election results, so I guess I need to update my priors.

    It won’t be as bad as the left claims, but it also won’t be as good as the right claims either.

  • I used to have a radar detector in my car and keep up with how to evade red light cameras, but now as a parent I’m all about slowing cars down and personally following traffic rules. Speed bumps near parks are great. I think I just needed to grow up and take a wider view.

  • Trying out some jig hook Frenchie nymphs with Shetland Spindrift wool yarn bodies instead of traditional pheasant tail bodies. What do you think? Which do you like better?

  • The new Mac Mini is the first Apple product in a few years that I really want. Everything else recently I could give or take.

  • I have two creation modes:

    1. A good enough 80/20 version will take a fraction of the time I expect, so I need to get out of my head and do it.
    2. The best version will take as long as it takes. This mode is all about the process and consistently showing up and making progress.
  • I noticed a nifty “This week also appears in [year]” section at the bottom of Jeremy Felt’s weekly post. Cool idea! Looks like the code for that feature is here.

    I might adopt it.

  • Telephones were a mistake. Any technology that allows scammers and political campaigns to disrupt you at any time is a mistake.

  • Reminder that the grass is greener where you water it.

  • Oh gosh, this has happened to me, too. I don’t remember exactly what I did, but I remember that I had to nuke, reinstall, and restart services. Thanks for posting. Bookmarking this for future me.

  • I bought a bunch of fly fishing stuff (hooks, tying vise, a net, wading boots) on Amazon in the last month. Now I’m getting MAGA hats in my recommended products 😬

  • I’ve come to my senses and I threw away my Apple boxes this morning. AMA.

  • Huh, apparently it is “unwieldy”, not “unwieldly”. No l before the y. I’ve gotten this wrong for 25 years.

  • Superglue bottle leaked and I almost glued four of my fingers together. That stuff is no joke.

  • Tied eight more flies tonight. All Futsū kebari. Five with thread bodies in various colors (my favorite combo was cream thread and grizzly hackle), three with wool yarn bodies (Shetland Spindrift Paprika) and grizzly hackle. I also used some size 12, some 14, and some 16 hooks.

  • Ugh, looks like my Twitter blocks and keyword mutes no longer work. Why do I even use that app?

  • Trying my hand at tying flies. Here are my first two, with brown rooster hackle and brown sewing thread. Trying to get the basics down: Keeping tension while wrapping, lashing on feathers, and whip finishing.

  • While playing Duplos with Charlie, I made a Marimekko house.

  • Organizing my jumbled mess of flies from five different containers.