Of course the weekend after posting about the months-long pattern of spam email dropping to near nothing on the weekend, I get a ton of spam email. Current spam hyperfixations include Costco, Omaha steaks, AAA, and Ace Hardware.

Blurt! — Sben
pile.org

One of the amusements I get from the current state of the internet is that sending spam email seems to be a Monday-to-Friday job.

— 10/19/2025 5:38pm ∞
Sold much of my surviving long walk gear to the spectacularly-concepted Turntables & Trails, a shop buying and selling used records and audio and hiking and camping gear.

— 8/2/2025 7:42pm ∞
One of my favorite purchases ever, several years ago, was a dozen foot-long extension cords from Monoprice; they came in a single bundle in the shipping envelope. We’ve used quite a few of them over the years, and gave a bunch away. My second dozen arrived today, and they were each in their own plastic bag, each with a tightly-zip-tied warning tag literally the same length as the cord, all in another bag, all in a shipping envelope: so much wasteful packaging that’s manifested in that time. I still love the idea of these extension cords, but I won’t buy them from Monoprice again.

— 6/23/2024 9:18pm ∞
Got my inbox down from hundreds of unreads to like two dozen total.

— 8/31/2019 5:07pm ∞