TechpadinPersonal 48fps, Bad 3D Glasses, and Three Hours of Blue People A trip to see Avatar: The Way of Water turns into a rant about high frame rate projection, RealD glasses that never fit right, and a storm that might wreck holiday flights. December 23, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Snowed In With the Winter Sale Open in Another Tab A cold snap, a broken radiator, and the Steam Winter Sale going head to head for my attention while I try to ignore the bigger Twitter news for once. December 22, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal What I Kept From Black Friday (and What Went Back) A rundown of what I actually bought (and put back) over Black Friday weekend, plus some dish-washing time spent watching Orion swing past the Moon. November 27, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal 1:47 A.M. and the Rocket Finally Went Staying up until 1:47 a.m. to watch Artemis I finally leave the pad, and some thoughts on why a successful Moon rocket launch barely made a dent in a feed full of Twitter and FTX chaos. November 18, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The GTA 6 Leak Gave Me a Half-Life 2 Flashback Rockstar confirmed the huge GTA 6 footage leak today, and watching it unfold sent me straight back to downloading the stolen Half-Life 2 source code off IRC in 2003. September 19, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal AirPods Pro 2 Preorder Day, and a Strange Week for News A half-asleep 5 AM preorder for the AirPods Pro 2, a still-Lightning charging case that's annoying me, and the strange feeling of a huge tech launch and huge real-world news sharing the same week. September 11, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Flex Alerts, Laptop Fans, and the Irony of Not Charging Your EV Writing this during a California heat wave and nonstop Flex Alerts, with some thoughts on the irony of being asked not to charge EVs two weeks after the state announced its 2035 gas car ban. September 5, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Ban Gas Cars, Then Beg Us Not to Charge the Electric Ones California banned new gas car sales by 2035, then days later asked everyone not to charge their EVs during a brutal heat wave. Some thoughts on the whiplash. September 2, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Nobody Pays You 18% For Free Celsius Network froze withdrawals this week and the Fed hiked rates three quarters of a point. A personal, mildly smug take on why sky-high crypto yields never made sense. June 17, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Elden Ring, My Frame Rate, and a Weekend I'm Not Getting Back A week and a half into Elden Ring and I'm still fighting the frame rate as much as the bosses — some thoughts on FromSoftware's long history of janky PC ports. March 5, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Elden Ring, and a Week Nothing Else Got Noticed Starting Elden Ring during the strangest possible week to start anything, plus a small note on the Nvidia security incident that got buried by bigger news. February 27, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The NYT Bought Wordle and My Family's Group Chat Didn't Even Blink The New York Times bought Wordle for a low-seven-figure sum, and instead of writing about the deal itself I want to talk about what a dumb little word game did to my family's group chat. February 9, 2022·3 min read
