Today I had a lunch at a diner and witnessed a man order his meal, and while waiting, open a single-serving plastic tub of jelly and eat it with a butterknife. Later, a woman who’d ordered coffee (small diner-sized mug) put in four (4) cups of creamer. People are fascinating.

I don’t know if it had this much grain in the print paper, or whether it’s just digital artifacting, but I love the look of this photo by David Carson on today’s front page.

As a one-time newspaper designer, I’m very curious about how this not only appeared twice in the obits today, but has different tracking between the two.

If you never hear from me again it’s because I massively overestimated my abilities. Which I guess applies to a lot of situations. But in this case specifically it’s because I’m going to attempt to run some ethernet.

Five years ago today, I got to visit the Apollo 11 Command Module when it was displayed at the St. Louis Science Center. A surprisingly moving experience.

NPR hasn’t used its main Twitter account since it was maliciously labeled “state-affiliated media”. It’s time everybody else joins them. Twitter needs you more than you need it.