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Recent Episodes
Landlords vs. The Big Bang Theory: A Fourth of July Tragedy
Management felt the need to officially warn us against detonating fireworks inside a drywall structure. Thank god they printed that sign, because my Saturday plans were completely ruined.
The Alphabet Just Lost a Letter: RIP Victor Willis
The “Y” has officially left the building. Village People lead singer and disco legend Victor Willis has passed away at 74, throwing wedding reception choreography into absolute chaos.
Latest Blog Posts
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Hollar Into The Void
The Highway Hall of Mirrors: If Your Car Could Actually Talk
Ever wondered what your car would say if it had a mouth? From the silent judgment of EVs to the mid-life crisis of a 911, we’re tearing down the automotive ego.
Signal Drift: Chapter 24
“He didn’t scream when the staples bit into his skin.” Under the red glow of a headlamp, Cronauer staples his wounds and discovers “The Mule”—a strategic off-road trailer that could save Viroqua, provided he can survive the high-speed run back to the ridge.
The Beach in Your Pocket (And Why We’re Running Out of It)
From “sand mafias” to teaching rocks how to think—discover the hilarious and terrifying reality that your high-tech life is built on a dwindling supply of dirt.
The Evolution of the Asylum: Welcome to Padded Sell Studios
When you line your walls with enough acoustic blankets to look like a psychiatric patient, you name the studio accordingly. Welcome to the evolution of Padded Sell Studios.
Interviews
Waking Up to the AI War
An IT veteran’s perspective on why the OpenAI military contract is the real-world beginning of Skynet. It’s time to stop calling it “the chat” and start calling it what it is: a weapons system.
The Jetsetter: Custom Retro Gaming PC
I set out to build a practical Windows gaming machine for Microsoft Flight Simulator and a library of retro DOS classics. What Hobbs at H-Mods delivered instead was a fully fabricated, RGB-lit piece of functional art — a custom PC so visually ridiculous I keep pausing games just to stare at the case. From accessibility realities and hardware anxiety to wall-mounted retro gaming and resurrected music software, this is the story behind the Jetsetter build and why modern horsepower is mostly being used to run 1993 shooters.
Digital Dust
While building the Nine Inch Nails deep dive, I pulled out one of the first CDs I ever ripped into MP3 — sometime around 2000. What I didn’t expect was hearing the digital equivalent of vinyl wear. Not damage… but texture. It raised a strange question: when does outdated audio quality stop being a flaw and start becoming nostalgia?
The Web Developer Who Neglected His Own Website for a Decade
There’s a darkly hilarious truth about working in web development — the guy who builds and maintains everyone else’s websites never has time to fix his own. After neglecting my company site since 2014 and accidentally crashing it while poking around the backend, I finally did what any responsible developer would do… I launched the new one that had been sitting 90% finished on my server.
Signal Drift: Current Broadcast
Signal Drift is an original fiction series unfolding one chapter at a time—right here on the blog. Set in a near-future collapse where communication is survival, the story follows a former radio engineer navigating broken networks, old alliances, and strange new signals. Each post is a chapter, and the series is updated regularly. Want to dig deeper into the cast? Meet the characters right here.
The Highway Hall of Mirrors: If Your Car Could Actually Talk
Ever wondered what your car would say if it had a mouth? From the silent judgment of EVs to the mid-life crisis of a 911, we’re tearing down the automotive ego.
Signal Drift: Chapter 24
“He didn’t scream when the staples bit into his skin.” Under the red glow of a headlamp, Cronauer staples his wounds and discovers “The Mule”—a strategic off-road trailer that could save Viroqua, provided he can survive the high-speed run back to the ridge.
The Beach in Your Pocket (And Why We’re Running Out of It)
From “sand mafias” to teaching rocks how to think—discover the hilarious and terrifying reality that your high-tech life is built on a dwindling supply of dirt.
The Evolution of the Asylum: Welcome to Padded Sell Studios
When you line your walls with enough acoustic blankets to look like a psychiatric patient, you name the studio accordingly. Welcome to the evolution of Padded Sell Studios.
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