Dan Bruno @danbruno@xoxo.zone
Tried an experiment where I subscribed to every site Kottke recommended in his farewell-for-now post (as long as it had a feed) and then pruned the ones I wasn't reading. This is the result after two weeks https://danbruno.net/blog/kottke-recs/
"He was not only the greatest of baseball writers; he had also lived long enough to see Babe Ruth, of the Yankees, at one end of his life and Shohei Ohtani, of the Angels, at the other." https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/remembering-roger-angell-hall-of-famer
I admit, I'm intrigued by this facial expression. Not enough to watch a two-hour video (is part one also two hours??), but still
Realized tonight that of the four places I've ever seen a MLB game, two are already gone (old Yankee Stadium, Shea). Arguably Camden Yards too, with that travesty they enacted in left field
health
the good news is that I don't need eye surgery; the bad news is that I have a sword of damocles situation now where I might suddenly need eye surgery at any moment for the rest of my life 🙃
Today the receptionist at the doctor's office asked about my job while making conversation, and I tell you what…mentioning Fortnite provokes a sort of response that Rock Band never did. "My daughter's always asking me for money for that!"
"The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features." https://search.marginalia.nu
this is an Elden Ring location https://www.livescience.com/new-sinkhole-discovered-china
guilty pleasure meme: the various baseball subreddits posting this clip whenever someone crushes a weak pitch https://streamable.com/259mo
Apple killed the iPod on Harmonix's anniversary, rude
(Unrelatedly: looking through the list of recommended links at the bottom, I think I hadn’t realized just how much momentum Substack and other newsletters have among people who write things online. I feel like I’m out of touch for not wanting more emails!)
I can’t imagine doing something like this for 24 years. I hope six months off is enough! https://kottke.org/22/05/announcement-im-going-to-miss-you-but-i-am-taking-a-sabbatical
Bummed that the Barnes and Noble downtown is closing. It's weird to think of them as the little guy getting pushed out, but maybe that's residue from You've Got Mail back in the 90s
As a New Yorker, my face is going to get stuck like the sickos.jpg guy seeing the Sox losing like this
According to my weather app, the temperature will double by next weekend
This is one of the coolest blog posts (articles? webpages?) I've ever seen. I feel like I just went to a great museum exhibit! https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
My local supermarket has been slowly renovating over the past couple months, which means every time I go everything is in a different spot and a different set of aisles is closed or bare. I feel like I'm in a shittier Control
I stopped caring about Mother 3 localization years ago, but after Reggie outed himself as a blockchain-ass monetize-my-Animal-Crossing-island guy I’m in favor of haranguing him about it anyway for the rest of his life. Keep asking him when it’s coming even when he’s been out of games for fifteen years and is just a Raytheon board member or some shit
