I would be doing better if I had cookies. Which I do not. So I am only doing. Not doing better. Not doing best. Just doing. Yes, the store has more. I can go to the store. I can satisfy my need for cookies. I can do the best that I can. Cookies are needed.
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Where Is He Going? What Is He Doing?
Yesterday, Facebook served me an ad for a trip through Ireland and Scotland. A 10 day cruise! Visits to Dublin! Glasgow! Edinburgh! The Isle of Skye! Wait. What the frell is going on with that map?!? Let’s get this out of the way. It’s pure AI slop. Done. Dublin is in about the right place.Continue reading “Where Is He Going? What Is He Doing?”
No! More! Apps!
I do not like them, Sam I Am.I do not like them, apps and ham A friend emailed me yesterday. He had sent me a message over the weekend on Facebook Messenger, and I hadn’t yet replied to him. He wanted to make sure I’d seen it. I had seen it, but… I don’t haveContinue reading “No! More! Apps!”
An Unseasonably Warm January Day
It reached 60 degrees today in Pennsyltucky. Except to go to the grocery store, I’ve been a homebody since I returned from North Carolina on the penultimate day of 2025 (ie., December 30th), and it’s been absolutely cold. I drove over to the state park, just because it was lovely. The Susquehanna was frozen over,Continue reading “An Unseasonably Warm January Day”
People Showing Who They Are
I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but sometimes it’s very, vary hard. Several years ago a friend from high school posted an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook. I read it several times — maybe I was misreading it, maybe there was a charitable reading — but no, it was, no matter howContinue reading “People Showing Who They Are”
As Seen on Facebook
Some recent ads on Facebook (and one on Instagram) caught my attention, and I wanted to share. Oh, bother. Yes, Facebook thinks I’m still in the market for unlicensed Washington Nationals jerseys with pop culture characters. To be fair to Facebook, I did buy the Oasis Nationals jersey (and had it customized for Sean Doolittle,Continue reading “As Seen on Facebook”
Recent Facebook Ads
Oh, Facebook ads. Did Facebook serve me something interesting? Oh, yes, indeed. Who doesn’t want to wear some fine Bob Larkin artwork on a shirt. Like, this shirt. What is this, my friends? That’s Bob Larkin’s cover artwork to J.A. Lawrence’s Mudd’s Angels. Harry Mudd and three scantily clad women, the starship Enterprise overhead. It’sContinue reading “Recent Facebook Ads”
A Saturday Potpourri
A quick update about work. For those coming in late, Diamond Comic Distributors, my employer for the past eighteen years, filed for bankruptcy in mid-January. For the past month, since mid-May, I have been working for Diamond under a Transition Services Agreement (or TSA); the company was bought by Ad Populum, but I remained employedContinue reading “A Saturday Potpourri”
Charlie Brown’s Nationals All-Stars
Finally, Facebook shows me an ad that’s relevant to my interests! It was bound to happen at some point. A Washington Nationals Peanuts 75th-Anniversary baseball jersey. Facebook has shown me Peanuts-themed baseball jerseys before, but not for the Nationals. For example… I didn’t hate these — they still pop up in my feed, and fromContinue reading “Charlie Brown’s Nationals All-Stars”
More Things I Do Not Need
Facebook continues to astound in the ad department. I wrote a few weeks ago about ugly, unlicensed baseball shirts, and with Spring Training about to begin, Facebook has even more to show me. Honestly, I don’t hate this. A Chicago Cubs bowling shirt! Would I wear it, though? Oh, absolutely not. It looks like itContinue reading “More Things I Do Not Need”