$200 is pretty steep for something I don’t actually need, but OH MY GOD this official LEGO snowspeeder is amazing.
Wow! The The (Matt Johnson, Johnny Marr) released their first single in 15 years for Record Store Day. Dusk was a pretty seminal album for me in ’93-94, so I wonder if they’re getting the band back together to record more stuff.
Finn’s friends all have tablets of some kind, and they are all deep in a Minecraft phase right now. She asked for Minecraft before Christmas, and today I finally broke down and installed it on our spare Kindle. I’ve been reticent because we don’t want her staring at a screen all day, but I figure it’s better than letting her play Call Of Duty. Luckily, there’s an excellent Parents’ Guide to Minecraft offered by the How-To Geek that helped me get my feet wet. Thanks lazyweb!
Having been without my iPhone for three days, there were times when I felt like I was missing my right arm. What will the weather be like today? What’s the address of my doctor’s office? It was alternately liberating and annoying to be unplugged when I needed information. The idea of a simple cellphone does have its merits. The Punkt MP01 is a simple cellphone with just the basic functionality, and it looks great. Unfortunately it’s only available for 2G GSM, which means it’s unavailable for AT&T, my carrier.
I love taking old things and making them work again; this is why I’ve got multiple 40-year-old Nikon lenses I screw on to new DSLRs. I’ve had a problem with focusing them properly. This article has 6 tips, tricks, and hacks for shooting sharper manual focus photos.
We got turned away at the Halethorpe train station because there were too many people boarding further up the line, so we didn’t go to the March On Washington on Saturday. However, the New York Times has Pictures From Women’s Marches on Every Continent. I’m so incredibly happy it was this widespread.
Mr. Spicer said that Mr. Trump had drawn “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration,” a statement that photographs clearly show to be false. Mr. Spicer said photographs of the inaugural ceremonies were deliberately framed “to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall,” although he provided no proof of either assertion.
So here’s your new boss, America. We’ve got a guy who spends the first day on the job bitching and complaining like a first-grader who didn’t get any candy for dessert.
Buried amidst his weekly NFL wrapup (and poop story compendium), this gem from Drew Magary:
Regardless, the rest of the country needs to hurry the fuck up and be like Colorado. I could easily survive the Trump Years with cheap and available weed all around me. JUST THE MELLOW I NEED.
In the latest continuation of the tortured Yahoo saga, some of the company has been sold off to Alibaba, the Chinese eCommerce giant. What this means for Flickr is still unclear; as mentioned before, 90% of the photos on this site are hosted there. Just in case, there’s a handy set of instructions for downloading an archive of your images.
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I just so happened to be watching cable the other night and Children of Men was on–one of my favorite movies. The next day I stumbled across this article, which asks if it’s 2016’s most relevant film.