Carter Baxter

Doing more to promote fuel efficiency than any president in 50 years.

The Artisanal Web | Another Rodeo Craft, humanity, and our new robot overlords.

I wrote a thing about the craft, humanity, our new robot overlords and The Artisanal Web another.rodeo/artisanal-web/

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Have you seen bethdeconinck.com/2026/03/04/o... ?

I thought Beth gave a wonderfully empathetic yet sharp analysis.

Auto mechanic/drinker and hell-if-I-know, because family trees often have gnarled roots. And also it’s a weird question and why are you asking?

Or less attraction to danger.

I have a hard time understanding how Facebook can blow 70 billion+ on VR and AI but can't find a few pennies to build a web site that works.

I did not know that. I lived in Laramie for awhile when I was a kid. Worked at a bike store there.

There are at least a half dozen A-team van replicas on the market right now. Finding a band of merry rogues to travel with is on you. And it would cut down on family time. Anyways, here’s one in Utah. topclassiccarsforsale.com/chevrolet/75...

Aren't those the tiny chicken bites that are like 95% just breading?

Yes!

In the middle of an acquisition now, and yes.

You know that breaking up is hard to do

I don't think anyone will need to break it up. I think it's too cumbersome and over-leveraged and is going to collapse into itself, all by itself.

I mean, that's kind of the Warner story with each new acquisition.

I bought another raggedy old bike

Most days I think Kansas is a much better place than you’d expect. Today is not one of those days. Today Kansas showed itself as petty, mean and stupid. You can’t undo that.

The weather is drunk. 69 and snowy? Makes sense.

You can lead a horse to water, but he's still going to want to put a "Quick sync on equine hydration" meeting on your calendar.

I loved the take that said “you don’t have to be in the loop. The loop is a shitty, terrible place. You can be someplace better”

The kids are alright

Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp. Nobody likes Shemp.

Search results with Amazon touting "Epstein Files Book Here - Inspiring True Stories"

What the hell, Amazon. That's messed up.

That’s a helluva lineup

When I was 15 I was a radio DJ. When I asked the grizzled old station manager a naive and foolish question about ads he glared my way and said, “we only play music to get people to stay for the ads.”

I think about that for every ad-supported medium.

Two words: swamp ass.

Not to be confused with aggrocola which is about evermore “extreme” sodas. We played that one a lot in the 90s

Yes

Oh no, I think I was unclear. I was just speaking to the expectation gap. I don’t think that’s widening.

After reading your first sentence, my brain went to an opposite conclusion: as consumer services rapidly and overwhelmingly enshittify themselves, is there an opportunity to close that old gap? Perhaps even to flip it?