Now You See Me, 2013 - ★★★

Watched on Saturday October 18, 2025.


5 years after moving in, I’m finally getting around to labelling the network ports in the mess of cables the previous owners left us.

A computer screen displays network settings for a USB 10/100/1000 LAN connection, indicating it is not connected, with options to delete the service or make it inactive.

“Why does this bacon smell like Christmas?” = successful bday party? 🤤


Teenagers are exhausting. (Only 13 more hours to go? 🥱)

Two feet in socks stand on a purple carpet with a small glowing blue object between them.A glowing balloon with Happy Birthday printed on it is set against a festive, dimly lit room with colorful lights.


Nice touch by a multi-national corporation: Starbucks applies your free rewards drink to the more expensive option on the order.

A coffee shop app screenshot shows two drink items, Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai and Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew, with one item priced at $0.00 due to a reward applied, and a total checkout amount of $6.05.

I just published a quick #Descript timeline tip if you’re not able to find the audio waveform view in your timeline anymore.


The moment when I realized I’d opened Ecamm Live at some point, and then realizing what kind of hair my hat left me with this morning. 🕖4️⃣ a 💇‍♂️

#Selfie a day for a year, day 59, Oct 17, 2025 edition.


Checking with any other #Apple nerds out there: the Terminal command sudo pmset -c spindown 90 theoretically sets the spin down timer for external HDDs (spinning, not SSD) to 90 minutes instead of the stock 10 minutes. Any other issues or dangers in running it?


Foggy #selfie a day for a year, day 58, Oct 16, 2025 edition.

A person with glasses and a beard is standing on a foggy path with a curly-haired dog on a leash.

Little bit of fog out there this morning.

A dog walks across the road in the foreground while a foggy sky with a hazy sun is in the background.

I like Disney+, but with this price increase it moves into the subscribe for a month or two when there’s something to binge category for me.

Disney+ Premium subscription price will increase from $119.99 to $159.99 per year starting from 19 November 2025.

Pumpkin spice latte kind of day. ☕️

A Stream Deck and a mug with the phrase thanos was right are placed on a desk beside a keyboard.

Work from home perk #63: naps.


🤔 It’s so much easier to stay in motion and go for the walk right after dropping my kid off at school, rather than sitting down for a coffee and hoping I’ll want to go for a walk later.

#Selfie a day for a year, day 57, Oct 15, 2025 edition.

A man wearing glasses and a cap stands outdoors with a leashed dog sniffing the ground.

Thinking About Microblog's Antisocial Stance

I dig Micro.blog for the way it helps me fight against dopamine driven social media norms by not showing me likes, follower counts, retweet numbers, views, etc. I post something and it gets published and that’s it. No checking later to see how many people liked it or reposted it. That’s a good thing for my vanity.

But I do find it misses out on some of the benefits of social media like knowing someone is actually a mutual friend—in the social media sense at least—because they follow you back and aren’t just replying randomly to posts of yours they come across. And the way that the Mac app doesn’t—as far as I can tell—have any way to get notified of replies or badge the app when you have a reply. I forget to check the Mentions tab for days or weeks and suddenly realize there’s been replies to my posts on Micro.blog. (I think the Micro.blog iOS version allows for notifications and badges?)

For me, all of this has nothing to do with “business” branding, marketing, or networking with potential clients, and everything to do with making connections with interesting people in different parts of the world. Learning their stories and how their experiences have shaped them in ways that might help me learn more about the world and myself.

I already have a proper blog to post longer thoughts on where I don’t have any clue who might be reading it, I kind of want a bit more social on a service like Micro.blog. But I get why for others who use it as their blog first, social connections second, that might not be as much of a priority.

Having used Mastodon and Bluesky for a few years now, I’ve come to appreciate their balance of a feed that’s not based on any algorithm other than who I choose to follow, while still letting me peek at who is actually following me that I might want to follow back (and vice versa).

Ultimately I do like having the ability to post from Micro.blog’s Mac app to social media, and while they’re are other options out there now, Microblog serves that purpose for me just fine so I don’t really need to switch services for that purpose.

Plus there are starting to be more people replying to my posts on Micro.blog as well as me replying to their posts, and I’d hate to lose whatever connections might be there that I’m not aware of.


I dig Justin’s 10m tutorial on how easy it is to start a podcast in 2025. The tools have made it as easy as starting a blog was back in the day.


Read my face for my review of Miss Vickie’s Cacio e Pepe flavoured kettle chips. Miss Vickie’s knows how to do black pepper really well, I’m not sure “sharp, creamy cheese” is a good mix with it.

#Selfie a day for a year, day 56, Oct 14, 2025 edition.

A person with glasses holds a bowl of potato chips while making a facial expression suggesting curiosity or confusion.

I listened to another great episode of Heavyweight, “The Messenger”, and it’s almost frustrating how effortless Jonathan Goldstein and crew make storytelling seem.


Finally starting “My Friends” by Fredrik Backman. 📚 #currentlyreading

A book titled My Friends by Fredrik Backman features artwork of people on a colorful background.

“Couch! Couch! Couch!” theme after driving 9hrs back home today.

#Selfie a day for a year, day ?, Oct 13, 2025 edition.

A person wearing glasses and a shirt with the word CODEPEN featuring a cube logo is looking upwards.