Ben Lamb

Mario’s Pizza
Greenville, IL

McLaren has the best ones of them all tbh

Like here's some recent posts by twg group 1001 andretti indycar that will never be anything besides a jpeg on Instagram

I know gestures broadly there's no justice in this stupid world, but also in this specific situation there's no justice in this stupid world

I literally beg indycar and the teams to make and sell actual posters of the faux-event-posters they make for social media post, and now twg group 1001 andretti cadillac F1 advertises a poster to me, and it's this shit that looks like I made it in 6th grade in paint shop pro 3

(extremely boss hogg voice) we'll be living it up on the boolie-vard San German

"From the NASCAR side of the world, ultimately, you're responsible for your car and the spotter is there to help you. I think, in INDYCAR, it's a little bit harder to see out of those mirrors and things are happening a little bit faster." No shit, Buckwheat, now get the hell out of here!

Some streetcar tracks poking through the pavement on Fosters Place, formerly McClean Place, on the near north-side. Nearby is the building which was once known as the McLean Place streetcar barn, where the streetcars were stored and underwent maintenance. (1/2)

The Beginning of the End for the web, and the country, really, was February 2015, when the blog Fucked In Park Slope signed off

It's all been downhill from there

well that is ridiculous

it should always be 2 1 3, second place to the winner's right hand

Used to be a thing. At least one of the units in Zionsville village is absolutely civil-defense-vintage. Not sure how the system that runs all of those is all set up now, though.

oh okay now it restarted and it's just the usual rolling sirens, a statewide test apparently

I wonder if the old emergency alert system actually still exists within the system or if it's really just set up for tornado warnings now

because that was really really weird

We just got one single cycle of air raid siren in the village. Is that... all clear from missile attack warning? I think a single cycle is all clear from missile attack warning.

And before you say anything, it's not all clear from severe weather warning. There is no such signal. Not here at least

Fart Barfunkel

Waiting for one of the toro commercial self driving electric mowers to show up in a liquidation auction tbh

But for now happy to give neighborhood kids pocket money or whatever they call it now

I just wouldn't use the name Babylon in any part of a municipality's name, just like in general

I wonder who got rid of all those psychiatric hospitals in the 80s

no place (on the internet) is safe (from bad chat gpt images)

Beatles songs but they skip to the end YouTube video by earworm nation

some of these ... really work

Not all of them, but some of them

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eweA...

yeah but when are they gonna tap into the strategic slurpee reserve to bring it back down below $3

unicorndog and kebab me me

Later in the draft, “expert review” offered up a piece of advice from Kara Swisher — the legendary Silicon Valley journalist and (as it so happens) my former landlord. I shared with her a screenshot of her “advice,” which was designed to be as deceptive as possible: her name appears in blue next to the text, with no suggestion that it is a paid hallucination from Grammarly. The “advice” was nothing like the blunt, clear-eyed, and hilarious suggestions the real Swisher often gives me. Instead, it suggested that we insert a narrative digression of dubious value. Grammarly told me the advice had been “inspired” by Swisher’s podcast. I asked Swisher what she made of her unpaid stand-in, and what she might say to the executives at Grammarly. She responded with characteristic restraint. “You rapacious information and identity thieves better get ready for me to go full McConaughey on you,” Swisher told me over text. “Also, you suck.”

I credit these comments from @karaswisher.bsky.social for the change

Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

I don't think any of the mini splits work with Nest-type cloud thermostats anyway. Minisplits are almost all two-wire (and often proprietary) while Nest et al work on the traditional multiwire 24v common relay logic systems that are cross compatible with the mercury switch Honeywell knob thermos

Average global sales price of Brent Crude, 2003-01-01 to 2026-01-01, highlighting that it hit 133.5822 in Jul 2008, and in was at 64 at the beginning of January 2026

short term price of brent crude, showing that it is currently at a fast peak of 90.894 up from the low 60s at the beginning of the the year

Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Article about John McCain crowing that the Fundamentals of the Economy Are Strong

look uh, you know,

"Oh, it's like a telegraph for your voice? I will have my mother or sister bring me one when they bring me my meals here at my self reliant cabin, or perhaps pick one up when I go into town for parties, which is all the time"

See if forum cu can refi it for you. I did mine after only a year! They service their own loans and because they are a credit union, even if you have pmi the pmi rates they can access are lower than the rando mortgage companies

Cover art for Final Fantasy X 2.5. Yuna is on it. Shrug.

TIL that there's a FFX-2 sequel audio drama where Tidus kicks an old sea mine he mistook for a blitzball and is unceremoniously vaporized in front of Yuna and I think that's beautiful.

Big ol same

The track layout for the Now That's What I Call A Distraction From The Epstein Files 250 is even worse than what I had come up with