Om Malik has been writing incredible blog posts lately! Velocity was amazing, Evidence continued, Tech & Media, and now FOMO. Delights me that he is still sharing his writing and thoughts with us — long after the days of Gigaom. 👏
POAP 7561204 at The Molt Epoch Begins.
We watched Knives Out: Glass Onion tonight. Fit the pattern of the first one. Was filmed during Covid and it is so odd to see masks in a movie at the beginning.
Easy and just are “four letter words”.
Can we just add one more option?
It seems easy to do.
These signs are all over in Minneapolis right now.
Tyler and I went to Micro Center just to browse and look around. Seeing the prices on DIMMs was crazy. All the memory production is going to AI. $500 and more for a DIMM means nobody is building their own machines.
Crisp morning with light snow. Perfect time for a soak. ❄️🔥💦
Much needed sauna time. 🔥
Watched Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere today and it was great. I’m also a huge fan of his Nebraska album.
Miscut Perrserker
Tyler and I enjoy collecting Pokémon cards together and one of the cards I collect is Perrserker, the Viking Pokémon. In fact, I’ve collected all the English cards and am well on my way to having all the Japanese cards. Just today I discovered that Perrserker is now in Pokemon Pocket too.
We decided to go to Northfield today as an excuse to get some more driving time for Tyler, and also Tammy loves Content Bookstore there, Tyler and I both like Games n’ Geek, and if I’m in the area it only seems appropriate to stop at Little Joy Coffee for a delicious Flat White.
I had Perrserker on the brain because of this mornings Pocket discovery, and Tyler and I both knew that Games n Geek had a very unique card a few months ago — a miscut Perrserker. They were asking a lot for it back then and I was wondering if they still had it in the case. They did!
I gave the card a close inspection. I’ve never bought a miscut and this one is really cool. These are all 1-of-1 cards so the price is hard to figure out, but I felt good with where they were now. So now in addition to my full collection of Perrserker I have this cool miscut one. I’m debating sending it in to PSA to get it graded — thinking I will.
Excited to see that Perrserker has arrived in Pokemon TCG Pocket! The full art featuring a Viking Ship is incredible. Looking forward to collecting these digital ones along with my complete set.
My cousin Quinn @quinntchrest and I taking in our first game at the new St. Thomas Anderson Arena tonight!
The print copies of the Yearly Thing arrived from Lulu! I’m very happy with how the formatting worked with Vellum and the production from Lulu is terrific. It is really cool to explore the year of the Weekly Thing like this. You can buy your own on Lulu.
We enjoyed watching Finch tonight. The story was surprisingly touching given that it is just one character, Finch, with a dog and a robot (two robots actually). 🍿
We had a great time at the TCG only Minnesota Card Show at Canterbury today.
- I got the five remaining cards I needed for the illustration set I was collecting.
- I traded for a great set of Eevee evolution promo cards.
- Tyler was on a mission and got a Bubble Mew!
Candlelight vigil in our neighborhood. 🕯️
We went to Yum! Kitchen to celebrate twenty years of this being one of our regular restaurants. I noted our first visit on my blog in January 2006. Mazie is still off in Barcelona but we made sure to recognize this milestone.
Orka Bar
We were watching Shark Tank one night and Orka Bar was one of the products. I thought it sounded good and the reaction on the show was that these were incredible. I placed an order while the show was on, like many thousands of others did apparently. It took a couple of months for them to work through the backlog of orders but today we got our order!
The product is a high-protein ice cream treat that actually tastes good. I tried it and it really is very tasty. The main ingredients are egg whites and cream with whey protein. It has a thin chocolate shell. It tasted really good. My biggest challenge was the chocolate shell is so thin that it cracks a lot and was a touch messy.
They are expensive and being a frozen item hard to ship. They sent it with dry ice and a styrofoam cooler. If these start appearing in the frozen aisle of our grocery store though I will probably get them on a semi-regular basis.
Amazon Spending
Peter Rukavina posted a graph of his Amazon spending and I couldn’t resist taking a look at my data. You can easily request this from Amazon in the “Privacy Center”. A quick pivot table later and I had this graph. I’m omitting the actual scale on purpose — the shape does enough to tell the story.
I’m not that clear on what happened in 2015 that drove a big jump that stayed that way. My family comments that I purchase a lot from Amazon and I thought they were overstating it, but maybe not.
Honestly I was truly surprised at the frequency and amounts.
POAP 7554247 at Yearly Thing 2025.
