A buddy of mine is a wine steward. He quit smoking and said “Holy shit I can taste wine again. I’ve just been making it up for years!”

It’s surprising how many people will plug in a random USB drive that they find. Apparently that’s how the CIA got the Stuxnet virus into Iran’s system and nerfed their centrifuges back in the day.

Dylan Raiola in shambles. Alex Orji now Heisman.

100% ban on everything gun-related or gun-adjacent. Can’t even wear short-sleeved shirts to show off your guns.

Been a long, long time since I’ve been to /r/seattlewa. They were a big part of why I quit reddit. Is it still a cesspool of hate and bigotry, spewing anti-homeless rhetoric and jerking off Jon Cho and Jason Rantz?

Yeah, but there was way more pizza.

“Hit it, quit it, then forgit it!”

-Bigfoot

After years of the Pac12 screwing us by having late start times, I’m excited for the B1G to get us those sweet primetime slots, like

8PM PST? What the fuck!?!

I thought it was a lot of fun. Cute buddy comedy/ romantic comedy, but about metal. If it had been about any other genre, it would have been kinda formulaic and boring, but all the lame tropes juxtaposed with metal music was very entertaining.

Don’t forget that they started major construction on the Ballard bridge and the intersection of 15th and Market right before Seafood Fest!

Man. Good thing global warming is a liberal hoax, or else I’d be worried about this.

Really digging Reign in Slumber. Thanks for the recommendation.

On the topic of Asian metal, Voice of Baceprot just played the Glastonbury festival, which is pretty awesome. All-female Indonesian band.

Also, the dude who works at the gas station down the street introduced me to Minerva, a Bangladeshi metal band.

The only ability you have in French is to judge. It’s what the language is for.

Neuwörtermachenaufgeregheit.

Bikes are popular in Seattle, but I’m not sure I’d call it a bike-friendly city. Tons of rain, tons of hills, tons of bridges, tons of crappy roads. We put bike lanes in a bunch of places, but a lot of them still have to go through confusing intersections or only cover part of your commute. Add on the new trend of no-hands driving, it’s still pretty dangerous.

I have a vague memory of listening to him on the radio in NY way back in the day and he was a legit sports analyst. Then a couple years later he showed up on national broadcasts and was completely different. Maybe my memory is failing me, but I don’t remember him starting as an obnoxious talking head.

Happiness in your household was wonderful.

Having read Scar Tissue, there was a lot of illicit love with the fans.

Not that bad, which is strange for this time of year. Usually I’d be working 'round the clock, but my industry is in a slump, so I have some free time. Hanging out with my partner, cooking, cleaning, played a hot second of video games last week. Hoping to have time to jump back into reading Stormlight Archive, but that’s one hell of an investment.

Thanks for asking, stranger. How’s life by you?

Basically comes down to the fact that I don’t enjoy it. Every time I’m on a bike I just think “I could be in a car. I could be sitting in a comfy seat listening to music, going way faster than this, using zero effort.” I like diving, I don’t like biking.

Plus, the last thing I want to do after a 12-hour shift at a physical job is to bike several miles uphill to get home.