Weekend double-feature

My wife and I have seen so many movies in the theaters in the ten years of knowing one another. Somehow, we've never done a double-feature until this weekend. And boy was it a doozy. Obsession The first movie of the day, and thank god we saw

Road to the Organic Menagerie

a collection of microfiction by Phillip Michael Ryan 1. Still Driving the Undriven Roads I still drive the Undriven Roads. I’d love to say it’s because my dad did, so I do. But I just need the money. And yeah, money still spends on the Roads — don’t

Augmented Glimpses

a collection of microfiction by Phillip Michael Ryan Dinner on Demand Here’s the thing: my dad worked food delivery like twenty years ago, so he thinks he understands my job. Hilarious. Simply dropping food at a door and dashing? What even is that? From my bag, I produce a

The Wilderneath

01 KEVIN’S CO-WORKER lied to him. Had to have lied. A month ago, Leslie told him in confidence that at night, in the middlest of nights, specifically while working overnight store inventory, you could hear muffled voices from beneath the store floor. Kevin told her she’d been

Elden Ring’s critic scores compared to its Soulsborne predecessors

In February 2022, FromSoftware’s latest highly anticipated video game released: Elden Ring. The game was met with immediate critical success. On Metacritic, 100% of the site's reviewers scored it at least an 80. On OpenCritic, 98% of reviewers that scored Elden Ring, gave it at least an

2020 M1 MacBook Air stuck in recovery assistant

I was approached by a client whose 2020 M1 MacBook Air would not boot to the operating system. After trial and error, I was able to return the MacBook in fully working order. Background Information It was stuck in a loop of Recovery Assistant asking for an admin user with

Fixing a blinking computer screen

Today at work, I was presented with an HP Windows 10 laptop with the issue of the screen blinking on an off. I was able to successfully address the issue and returned the laptop to its owner in working condition. The laptop owner provided me with the following information: * The

Restoring Chrome OS to a Chromebook

In April 2021, I purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad 13 Chromebook from eBay for less than $100.00. My goal with this device when I bought it was to remove Chrome OS from it completely and replace its factory OS with a light-weight Linux distro. To do this, I had

Why can’t I buy Audible books through the Android app?

If you’re noticing you can no longer purchase Audible audio books with a debit or credit card through the Android app, nothing is bugged or broken. Amazon has officially removed this feature from the app. As detailed by Ars Technica, a recent crackdown by Google seeks to ensure digital

Why are Macs bad for gaming?

I purchased and used my first Mac device in 2016 when I was 25 years old. To that point, I had only ever worked, learned, or played on Windows devices. The consistent sentiment I had heard was that Apple’s machines—geared toward productivity and creative work—were bad for

Pain +/= Programming

Broken Machines They were cowards. They were sightless. They were weak. No, they were none of those things. They were broken. Malfunctioning. She both understood them yet could not fathom their choice to leave. Mara watched dozens of figures stalk away from their settlement -- away from Mara’s home -- across

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S1 Fitz Jefferson settled into his leather office chair for a rushed lunch between lectures, hands navigating a mindless pre-lunch ritual, eyes locked on the innocuous pair of black glasses resting on his desk, mind thinking of the world that lived inside them. “Welcome back, Fitz,” a faceless voice