Jerry Kindall
kindall.bsky.social
Jerry Kindall
@kindall.bsky.social
Husband, dogfather, writer, coder, nerd, geek.
Breeder of Glen of Imaal terriers with wife Amy.
I've seen that a lot on Amazon, even on other products. Sometimes just changing the color or the size changes the price. I think usually that's because whoever the cheapest seller of those things is, is out of stock on that variant of the product and you're getting a different seller's price.
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
All this change achieves is to undermine the CDC as a legitimate healthcare authority. Doctors won't magically stop vaccinating children; they'll follow some other organization's guidelines. Perhaps the American Medical Association could step up if we insist on the authority being American.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
junk mail is actually what makes the most money for the USPS. it pays for itself and then some. it's cheap to deliver because it comes pre-sorted from the sender.

the $30 is to make sure everyone in the country can send and receive mail. yeah, I'll pay that.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nonviolent resistance can work when it is backed by a credible threat of imminent violent resistance supposing the opposition rejects the nonviolent path. We don't have that credible threat... yet.
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My wife made cookies to send out to friends and family for Thanksgiving. Two varieties were cornbread-based: one honey cornbread, the other a savory elote. One sweet, one not. Both went over well with the recipients.
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Wait. I understand why it shows the image flipped while you're taking a selfie, but are you telling me it saves the final photo that way, too? That's... dumb. Everything in the shot's going to come out backward!
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
remake Ice Station Zebra
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
so she is a pre-Madonna
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
people were spilling their innermost secrets to ELIZA in the '60s, and it was a lot less sophisticated than today's LLMs. this should have been easily foreseen.
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
put the rich in the Crock-Pot when you leave for work and have a delicious stew when you get home
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Also, who is this "The White House" who tells the President what to do?
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
no point in paying premiums with an HSA, premiums are already tax-deductible
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The Hurl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"U and I"
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pro tip: when meeting an author, particularly one noted for clever prose, remember that they might have had months or eve years to come up with their best lines. Speaking extemporaneously, they're not likely to be any more articulate than you or me. Some are, but they're the exception, not the rule.
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The sheer mastery of light on display here. Stunning.
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Who was the other Democrat?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Dems in array"
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
(iTrek should be just Trek obviously... I originally had "it" there and decided to be more specific)
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Y'know, there was a movie called "All Is Lost" starring Robert Redford. Spoiler: after struggling against setback after setback, he was rescued. All was not, in fact, lost.

The original Goethe quote is, "if courage is lost, all is lost." (Except in German, of course.) So have courage.
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Those people are ignorant of history. TOS fandom was heavily female. The first fanzines and the first Trek-only convention were organized by women, and a woman organized the letter campaign that got Trek its third season. If anything, men eschewed iTrek because it wasn't "real" science fiction.
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM