mathowie

mathowie, 4 days ago to random

Colin Quinn (old school standup goat) doing almost an hour of therapy-related comedy jokes at a psychiatrist conference is one of the best things I didn’t know I needed.

https://youtu.be/e-PGVxGEpA0

mathowie, 4 days ago to random

I was watching Instagram reels and there was one on how to enjoy disneyworld with no lines and it began by saying get up at 4:30am to workout while booking fast passes then get to the park 90min before opening and I thought it was a parody of Disney advice videos but I kept watching and it wasn’t comedy they were dead serious through the end.

mathowie, 5 days ago to random

I moved to a plan at Moda health and when signing up my new account on their website, the date picker has amazing first iPhone vibes.

mathowie, 6 days ago to random

What if we made capitalism even worse for literally everyone?

mathowie, 6 days ago to random

Sharks, I’m here today to pitch my new movie streaming service that is going to revolutionize film by adding A.I. to all your favorites. Imagine seeing movies you love but made even better.

Today I’m asking for $200M to help launch and for that you’ll get one percent of the company.

The Godfather, now with AI
Barbie, with added AI

mathowie, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Checked out the scotusblog livestream of Supreme Court opinions where lawyers explain decisions as they come out in realtime and it reminded me of 20 years ago, loading up MacRumors every January to read what was being said in untelevised apple keynotes, but instead of a new PowerBook or iMac, the stream is about which of our fundamental rights just got curtailed.

mathowie, 7 days ago to random

I watched this guy’s YouTube channel occasionally over a couple years until he released a bunch of “Karens yelling at my car” videos, after he put a $18,000 straight pipe unmuffled exhaust system on his doucebag Lambo. Video after video of people asking him to please stop revving a 120dB car inside a parking garage that amplifies it and him laughing in their faces.

Eat crow, Alex Choi, eat crow.

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/influencers-helicopter-firework-lamborghini

mathowie, 8 days ago to random

NYC canceling their congestion pricing plan just before launch is absurd. Each time I go to NYC it seems crazier to me that any public cars are allowed in Manhattan at all. It worked in London, it works all over Europe.

Big trucks bring in morning supplies. Taxis help people around. But privately owned cars? Pay $20 for the one day you must drive around but otherwise? Subways and buses can take you everywhere.

mathowie, 7 days ago to random

I haven’t seen my nephew in a couple years but just got his high school graduation announcement. It’s 2024, so of course his hair looks like an alpaca.

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mathowie, 7 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

I'm one of those Caitlin Clark bandwagon jumpers on watching all the WNBA for the first time this year.

Amongst all the hand-wringing about Clark, the way commentators talk about the players and even the players themselves about how "every new player is supposed to be hazed, I was beat down hard my first year, it was part of my coming up in the WNBA"

and I'm like, uh, that's language abusers use to justify their mistreatment?

mathowie, 8 days ago to random

Ouch. Two friends on opposite coasts that are the most covid safe/avoidant people I know both caught their first covid this week. Be safe out there folks.

mathowie, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

I was a dirtbag bmx teen. I competed in (and sometimes won) freestyle events. I rode hours per day with a group of friends.

One day we practiced at a kid’s house who was a good new rider. His mom comes outside to us derelicts and is SUPER nice and offers us lunch in the form of soup and sandwiches and lemonade.

Immediately, we called the rider “Soup & Sandwiches” going forward, Soup for short.

I occasionally rode with Soup into our 20’s and to this day I don’t remember his actual name.

mathowie, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

a hunch I’m too lazy to research for examples/screenshots for a full blog post so I’ll just say it:

from 2005-2015 having a good user experience was a prime feature of products and teams and apps got easier to use but 2015-2025 is all about abandoning UX because it’s a “solved problem” in the past and apps today are continuously getting worse

(see Instagram replacing search with a chat bot)

mathowie, 9 days ago to random

I'm casually reading some 1918 history of the influenza epidemic (as you do) focused on how it originated in the Midwest https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140242/

reactions from people in 1918 are exactly what we saw in 2020, like this gem

"The church closure order was protested by Archbishop (later Cardinal) John J. Glennon to no avail, leading him to suspend temporarily the obligation of Catholics to attend Mass weekly"

Pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler wore a "Church is Essential" hoodie all thru early 2020

mathowie, 12 days ago to random

My TRACTOR has an APP now (aka, the answer to a question no one asked) and every time I look at it I imagine Weird Al installing the app too then immediately singing a modified version of his first hit

mathowie, 13 days ago to random

Eight years after the crime was committed, six years since most evidence came to light. The verdict doesn't mean jail time, but a former leader of a democracy is guilty of election interference—that's not nothing.

The leading Republican candidate for president in 2024 was convicted of trying to subvert the democratic voting process in what is supposed to be the best example of democracy on the planet.

Anyone who still follows him after this has no ethics and doesn't believe in democracies.

mathowie, 13 days ago to random

(dancing time)

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mathowie, 13 days ago to random

hell yes

mathowie, 13 days ago to random

mathowie, 13 days ago to random

This 2018 comment aged well

mathowie, 14 days ago to random

The Dodgers show up to every ball game ready to chew bubble gum and leave runners in scoring position on base and they’re always out of bubble gum

mathowie, 15 days ago to random

The 2nd place GOP candidate for president out there celebrating the genocide of civilians.

She was always as bad as Trump.

mathowie, 15 days ago to random

Hearing historical records from baseball’s negro leagues are finally incorporated into MLB stats really makes me want to stream an all-sports talk radio station from some rural town today just to hear the mental gymnastics the hosts will go through to say why it’s somehow bad while also trying not to sound totally racist to listeners.

mathowie, 15 days ago to random

me: (hasn’t touched the 4K version of Dune 2 sitting unwatched on my Plex for a month because sitting down for 3.5hrs seems impossible to schedule)

also me: (1h30m into the 4 hour Disney Star Wars hotel YouTube review video by Jenny Nicholson, asking my spouse to pick up the dog from day care so I can finish it in one sitting)

mathowie, 15 days ago to random

Ryan Gosling is morphing into the new Rock and listen—it’s already in motion and it can’t be stopped. The Rock is in his 50s, so he’s aging out.

The Goz is going to be in everything for the next 10-15 years. That’s just facts.

(yes, somehow, he’ll show up in the fast and furious series)