It’s disappointing how you can almost see in real time that as income + bank account balance goes up, empathy and curiosity goes down.

Congrats to my friend and (infrequent?) podcast co-host Nicolas on hitting the 10 year mark at AWS.

The audio stuck in my brain this week is “Thicky thicky dumb dumb”.

Welp. We made it to Friday everyone. May your coffee be hot and your inbox empty by noon.

Selfie a day for a year, day 354, Aug 7, 2026 edition.

A man with gray hair and glasses is holding a dark blue cup with white patterns close to the camera, with a framed picture of Ted Lasso visible in the background.

“I just want normal parents who don’t care about what their kids are doing! 😡” Happy Friday everyone!

Kid needed a ride home at 11. 😪 Kid is going to get a ride home! 😅 Kid no longer has a ride home, once again needs a ride home. 😪 🥱

On the plus side I get more time with the audiobook for Carl’s Doomsday Scenario.

I just had a full sensory memory of dropping a new CD into a CD player tray, watching the tray slide in, and hear it start spinning for a moment before the music hit.

New on my blog: Following a link. Join me on a little walk through the ‘ole world wide web.

How long has it been since you hopped around the web from blog to website to a different blog to someone’s about page to yet another website? I miss the old ways when it was a bit more work to travel the web, but more rewarding when you found some new corner you didn’t know existed.

Take a drink of water and celebrate Ted Lasso, season 4 episode 1 release day.

Selfie a day for a year, day 352,, Aug 5, 2026 edition.

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