Scroogie Boy

Disney Bundle? Disney Boondoggle!

Tried to merge my Disney+ and Hulu accounts into a bundle. Nope. Can’t do that. I need to delete them, wait for the end of their billing cycles and only then re-create my account as a bundle. Well, the accounts are deleted. I sure hope I remember to create a new one next month…

OrbStack

One of those “Holy shit! How did I miss this?” moments: I ran across a mention of OrbStack in a discussion thread recently and checked it out. The way people describe it as a better Docker for Mac is true, but it also is basically WSL2 for the Mac, too. Don’t get me wrong, having a …

Modern air travel, timeless pet peeves

This trip is teaching me the difference between the merely annoying (my luggage being delivered 4 days late thanks to United Airlines) and infuriating (SAS airport personnel playing the “head of the line says you don’t need any forms, the end of the line says you do need the forms, go away and get …

I guess that I can only have as many YubiKeys as I have nail polish colors to identify them…

The disappearing web

For all the Internet is this unforgiving permanent record of everything stupid you ever posted, going through my Squarespace-hosted blog’s contents to find anything to bring over here has also shown me that no link is forever. So much link rot in so little time!

Repost: Obsessively tracking one's new Texas-bound BMW (or MINI)

There have been a number of articles on tracking your new US-bound BMW in transit published online (usually based on this BMWBlog article or its i3 follow-up), and they do get the basics right. I have learned a couple of new things since then. The main thing that is different in my experience is …

Moved again

I guess that I just can’t stop myself: after… checks notes… just over 7 years (talk about a seven year itch!), I’m trying out a new blogging platform. After 11 years on Typepad and 7 on Squarespace, I guess I want to try something new (micro.blog, as the case may be). …