If you're looking for some jolly reading today, here's a thread of bad secret santa stories I posted three years ago.

https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/W7nD2SGLK5w7lmZFTq

Confession time: I booked a hotel room at boomer favorite Hampton Inn instead of the Hilton Tru that appeals to younger tech savvy travelers.

After extensive braining, I've concluded that the signs on this bus are in Haitian Creole (in addition to English and Spanish).

Who's hyped for MLK day freedomball?

Under cover of the polar vortex, Sub-Zero launches a sneak attack across the Delaware.

The photo seems to show quite some other buildings intact as well?

If the TikTok ban prevents a European living in the US from deleting their profile, is that a GDPR violation?

Who's more ethical, your outie or your innie?

How good are chatbots at removing phonetic dialects from novels?

Welcome to fedi! To finish your application, please differentiate between circles, groups, lists, and aspects. Your usage license should be available shortly after approval.

Given that the ERA was ratified five years ago, why are we only this instant trying to get the archivist to print it out? I remember the exciting college years of having a paper due at 5:00pm and discovering at 4:55pm that your stupid inkjet printer was out of ink (because oops, all the ink dried up was the default state for stupid inkjet printers), and professors were generally not amused by the delay.

Today's hard hitting man on the street journalism features people who use laptops to buy plane tickets. It's worth reading this meandering mess of an article only to count how frequently it contradicts itself. Who'd win in a fight, actual data from the airline or an anecdotal tweet from some rando?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/01/17/flight-booking-phone-vs-computer/

Haha, found a bug. Honk hotkeys are qwerty only, they didn't switch to dvorak. Then again it's easier for me to find them by sight this way.

Time for my irregularly scheduled switch to dvorak keyboard map for a week. I found it seemed to help with finger pain, a little, but that hasn't bothered me in ages. But I learned a new skill, dammit, and I'm stubborn and refuse to let it fade away. A week of use now and again keeps it sharp.

The airport trap: I am inside security, with all the seats, and pretzels, and pepperonis. The train is outside security, where there are no seats or pretzels or much of anything. The train departs in two minutes. Do I dare risk it, knowing that if I miss the train I'll be stuck outside until the next one?

I decided no. I prefer the surety of the pretzel.

The right Joy-Con on the Switch 2 sports an additional small, square button below the Home button. Its function is currently unknown.

Hard hitting game journalism.

JFK finally laid to rest.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/uss-john-f-kennedy-philadelphia-departure-date-time-20250115.html

Jack and Rose seek to prove the warmth of their love will conquer even the polar vortex.

Here it comes!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/15/polar-vortex-frigid-cold-eastern-us-forecast/

HN yearns for the banking stability of the 1800s.

When you finally decide to test something on openbsd but your only test machine is over a year out of date. :(

As foretold by prophecy, Alduin the world eater has returned through the polar vortex.

Heh, TIL Phil Zimmerman was among the early adopters of the flee to New Zealand movement to escape apocalypse.

Elvira, mistress of the dark, summons a never ending polar vortex.