The 2025 Uber Lost & Found Index | Uber Newsroomhttps://www.uber.com/newsroom/the-2025-uber-lost-found-index/

The Star Wars Holiday Special is more important to canon than ever | Polygon | https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/500987/star-wars-holiday-special-skeleton-crew

SteamOS moving from Steam Deck to more handhelds gives me hope for better anti-cheat compatibility | GamingOnLinuxhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/steamos-moving-from-steam-deck-to-more-handhelds-gives-me-hope-for-better-anti-cheat-compatibility/

Can You Eat Turkey Eggs?https://www.thespruceeats.com/can-you-eat-turkey-eggs-5081613#:~:text=Why%20Don't%20We%20Eat,up%20to%20%2436%20per%20dozen.

5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV – ABC Newshttps://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361

The Untold Story of the Vegetable Peeler That Changed the Worldhttps://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-untold-story-of-the-vegetable-peeler-that-changed-the-world

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanstothers/are-these-christmas-movies-poll

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts – The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather-forecast.html

Jeopardy!: The spinoff is finally here. It might make you question your faith in humanity.https://slate.com/culture/2024/12/jeopardy-final-pop-culture-colin-jost-prime-video.html

This is wild – There is a non-zero chance the insurance industry will collapse by 2040.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prosperity-or-catastrophe-insurance2040-study-reveals-four-possible-futures-for-the-industry-302304272.html

Sorry, I got a little busy with Thanksgiving and things lately! I'll try to get better at using this. 🙂 https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces-new-president

63-year-old man arrested in U.K. cheese heist : NPRhttps://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168356/cheddar-cheese-stolen-neals-yard-dairy

Dozens of monkeys escape from research facility in South Carolinahttps://www.wral.com/story/dozens-of-monkeys-escape-from-research-facility-in-south-carolina/21711665/

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/04/guardian-sports-writers-and-arts-critics-swap-jobs-for-one-day

All About Wonders of Wildlife's Octavia the Octopus and Keeper Jared Belt | 417 Magazinehttps://www.417mag.com/lifestyle/life/octopus-keeper-jared-belt-wonders-of-wildlife/

US Copyright Office “frees the McFlurry,” allowing repair of ice cream machines – Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/us-copyright-office-frees-the-mcflurry-allowing-repair-of-ice-cream-machines/

Who Invented The ‘Bedsheet Ghost’?https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-invented-the-bedsheet-ghost/

Seven new frog species discovered in Madagascar: Sounds like something from Star Trek | ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241015141512.htm

Star Trek's Holodeck recreated using ChatGPT and video game assets | ScienceDailyhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240411130301.htm

Sorry for the shortfall, I'm traveling this week and not reading a lot of news on my laptop. 🙂 Here, have a picture of the Very Large Array!

The CFP for Community Over Code North America closes today. If you're an Apache Software Foundation contributor or user, we'd love to hear about it in Minneapolis! https://communityovercode.org/call-for-presentations/

Sitting on the sofa with your spouse silently sending each other reels is our parents sitting there reading out loud to each other whatever they've come across in the newspaper/magazine. We've become them.

The ironies of getting older: Technically you're getting shorter, but somehow the floor is further away.

I beg you, if your conference talk is made of slides with 250 words each that you're going to read to me, just put a link to the blog post in your abstract, and I'll read it.

If you're unfamiliar, King Ludwig II's story is a wild ride. And his death is full of Bismarck Era conspiracy theory. But when I start typing "King Ludwig" and Google autocompletes "sightings"… Friends, I am no expert, but I'm pretty sure he is, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda, super dead.

Obviously.

I got a bottle of Crystal Pepsi in an Instacart ad, but it doesn't appear to be available or coming around again any time soon. So weird.

This month's ASF newsletter, Plus One, is up! https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/asf-plus-one-newsletter-march-2025

Among a population that probably does most of its learning by reading, Gnome and GNU pronunciation are a kind of open source community shibboleth. Alternately… are we getting to the point where saying guh-nome and guh-new just indicate your age? (And then there's MATE and LaTeX…)

Let me share with you my favorite poem. It's so easy to memorize, you may already know it and recite it each day. Coffee. Coffee coffee. Mmmmm coffee. Coffee.

TIL 1, Spencer's owns Spirit Halloween, and 2, there are more Spencer's now than when you were in high school. (Probably. Making some assumptions about the average age of my follower friends here.) https://thehustle.co/originals/how-the-weirdest-store-at-the-mall-survived-the-retail-apocalypse. https://thehustle.co/originals/how-the-weirdest-store-at-the-mall-survived-the-retail-apocalypse#:~:text=One%20reason%20why%20Spencer's%20and,killer%20that%20does%20the%20same

Tell me something interesting.

Just realized I'll never again play JoAnn's Roulette, the name I invented for the game where you think you're using a 50% off coupon on something (which at JoAnn's markup made it a reasonable price), only to discover at the register it's on an unmarked sale for 20%, so you can't use the coupon.

Tomorrow I'm talking at my kid's Academy of Creative Design meeting about branding. Lots of fun examples of successes and failures. In 2011, Coke released white cans with polar bears on them for their $3 million pledge to their campaign to conserve polar bear habitat in the Arctic. 🧵

Favorite (less pricey) Flipbelt dupe? Not sure I want the kind with a buckle since I need to minimize bulk, but also the ones that just have a fold and no zipper concern me that they won't hold things in well.

We've been binging Severance, so my headcanon about tonight's incredibly slow Hurricanes-Flames game is that NHL players are severed, and their outies got woken up on the ice very confused.

Conveniently, I just got a ZipRecruiter ad that answers the question for you! 🧵 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

If you download the UNESCO World Heritage app, you can track the sites you've visited and ones on your wish list. I think this one wins for most interesting name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump

Might have to try this some time… https://www.seriouseats.com/clean-cooking-oil-with-gelatin-technique

Reminder that this Friday is planetary parade time! https://starwalk.space/en/news/what-is-planet-parade https://www.space.com/stargazing/planetary-parade-february-2025-when-where-and-how-to-see-it