I can’t help but think that Tiger Woods – half black and half Asian, masterful at his craft and with the media, interloper into the great white sport, inspiration for multitudes around the world – has helped pave a road that Obama is now cruising. People saw Tiger as a black athlete who was articulate, […]
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⚡ December 27, 2023I enjoyed Chimp Empire on Netflix. Learning how James Reed made the show on the Talking Apes podcast.
⚡ December 22, 2023Allmusic’s year in music is a solid, eclectic list of new music to explore.
⚡ November 3, 2023Really bummed that Cities Skylines 2 launched with such poor performance and buggy. I’m going to wait until they get the game to a 1.0.
⚡ October 15, 2023Hard Fork by Casey Newton and Kevin Roose is currently my favorite podcast.
⚡ September 3, 2023RIP Jimmy Buffett. “Some of it’s magic and some of it’s tragic but I had a good life all the way.”
⚡ February 5, 2023Becoming a Premier League fan makes the end of the NFL season much less somber.
⚡ December 21, 2022I recommend Neeva private search to help protect your privacy. I signed up for the Premium version, but you can use their free version across web and mobile.
⚡ December 19, 2022Argentina wins the 2022 World Cup with an epic final game. And Messi gets his storybook ending as the greatest of all time.
⚡ November 18, 2022Testing the ActivityPub WordPress plugin. This post should publish to @scott@detoffol.com
⚡ November 13, 2022The Minnesota #Vikings win an absolute classic game at the Buffalo Bills. Justin Jefferson has a killer forth quarter including one of the greatest clutch catches of all time! #SKOL Vikings!
⚡ November 13, 2022Trying Mastodon Autopost to WordPress plugin. Originating my content on my site is something I should prioritize.
⚡ October 19, 2022Hacker T Dog, cockers!
⚡ May 25, 2022Severence on Apple TV+ is a great show and I’m looking forward to season 2. Don’t miss “The Lexington Letters” for some additional insights into the mystery.
⚡ April 5, 2022The 1950 U.S. Census has been published and is freely searchable. Go spy on your ancestors.
⚡ May 8, 2021They’re Made Out of Meat
⚡ May 7, 2021Life on Mars?
⚡ March 1, 2021WandaVision is good
WandaVision has been pretty good, hopefully the final episode will pay it off!
⚡ December 16, 2020Largehearted Boy end of year lists
If you like end-of-year lists as much as I do, then you need to know about Largehearted Boy.
⚡ November 2, 2020Vote!
Vote! “The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.” Louis Brandeis.
⚡ October 8, 2020RIP Eddie Van Halen
RIP Eddie Van Halen.
⚡ May 21, 2020Thank you Way Back Machine
⚡ May 6, 2020Video post cleanup
Cleaned up a bunch of dead video embeds on posts from year’s past.
⚡ May 3, 2020Kevin Kelly’s 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
Kevin Kelly’s “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice” is full of gems, pinned here for future and frequent reference.
⚡ June 28, 2019Galaxy Buds
The Galaxy Buds are great devices. They may not be quite as seamless as AirPods, but they come close for Samsung phone users. Our augmented future includes computers in our ears.
⚡ February 26, 2019Foldable screens
Foldable screens are here, but the products are very early versions. I expect I’ll buy something foldable no earlier than 2021.
⚡ May 19, 2018Favicons on Favorites page
File under “I should have done this year’s ago”. I added favicons to my Favorites page.
⚡ April 16, 2018Added Asides
I added “Asides…” to the site’s sidebar using some custom code for WordPress, leveraging Post Type. Read more here.
⚡ November 27, 2016My next personal computer is probably going to be a Chromebook
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