5/18/25 - Vintage Label Makers. Most people are charmed by embossed labels. Those are the kind that don't require ink or even batteries to create. Old school, stylized, tactile, and classically smart engineering. A few years ago, I bought a contemporary Dymo Embossing Label Maker. Mind you, Dymo essentially invented the label maker. So I bought one from them in like 2021 for $10. It broke about a year or two later. In 2024, I decided I missed having one, so I bought another

5/23/25 - The Odd Relationship Between Willard, Ben, and Michael. A few years ago, I watched the 1971 film, Willard , about a weird kid who trains packs of hyper-intelligent rats to kill for him (the leader of the rats being Ben). 50 year old Spoiler Alert: Willard tries to kill Ben in the end, but Ben outsmarts him and sics the entire pack of rats on Willard and they murder him. In the 1972 sequel, Ben , Ben escapes and makes a new friend; a sick little boy who's name I can