Informer

My wife just texted me claiming there’s “possibly 12 inches of snow” with no context. So I, a white guy in his mid 40s, of course responded “a licky boom boom down” also without context.

Would you let Amazon scan your palm?

Would love to know what goes through the mind of someone who lets Amazon scan their palm to save 15 seconds at Whole Foods checkout. I mean I’ve got a Prime Visa credit card but come on.

Maybe Amazon Fresh and other gig workers are so pressed for time and there frequently enough they are forced to?

That Christmas – ★★★½

That Christmas movie poster

Would’ve been 4 stars but could’ve done without that incredibly legitimately effing traumatic last plot twist near the end there. Had no idea this was a Richard Curtis screenplay until the credits and the pretty darn solid story and writing make a whole lot more sense now compared to when I thought it was just some random Netflix junk.

Looking forward to watching this again with the kiddos next year.

Rating: 4 stars

Crossposted on Letterboxd

Honey browser extension accused of ripping people off

I kinda just assumed this was the whole point of Honey? And it always seemed like a privacy disaster that didn’t actually find any good codes the couple times I looked at it.

Honey’s deal-hunting browser extension is accused of ripping off customers and YouTubers – https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/23/24328268/honey-coupon-code-browser-extension-scam-influencers-affiliate-marketing

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— The Verge (@verge-poster.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 4:26 PM

What’s wrong with wearing Threadless t-shirts from 2003?

Wait should I not still be wearing this Threadless tshirt of a T-Rex playing Asteroids on an arcade cabinet? Is that not cool anymore? Or this one about refrigerator-based haikus?

MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast

MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek

— ceej (@ceej.online) December 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM

In a fun coincidence, I ended up working with the Threadless fridge haiku creator/poet Rolf Nelson for a couple years back in 2019 or so. Threadless tees were like 40% of my wardrobe in the 2000s.

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator