Did our annual New Years Day hike today. This year to Tifft Nature Preserve just south of Buffalo. You can see the old grain silos near downtown in the background.

Last.fm year-end reports are out! Here’s mine.

Year number 3 of my song-a-day playlist is in the books! Find 2024 here and the brand new 2025 version here. Apple Music only, sorry.

Locked in and published: my favorite 20 albums from 2024. www.crucialtracks.org/my-favori…

New hack to get page views has to be load your site up with so many scripts that the page repeatedly crashes on 50% load, so you have to keep refreshing the page. Every “major” site I visit seems to be this way now. The internet is so broken.

Finished reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Cazenovia Lady Chiefs took home the 19u championship tonight at Buffalo RiverWorks, with a 4-0 shutout. Great team victory!

Pulled all of my favorite albums into one Apple Music playlist to facilitate the final listen for inclusion on the Crucial Tracks end-of-year list. Listen along!

We are pretty much a kakistoligarcracy now aren’t we? Billionaires get richer, while some of the worst humans alive get to run the federal government. And yeah I probably just made up that word. Fitting.

Uhhh, looks like the NYT is continuing its streak of stellar coverage. I am sure there are many people and stacks of government subsidies that would like a word with “single-handedly.”

Gonna be a long 4 years.