Chris Hubbs

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This #18: Thinking: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/28/i-dont-know-why-youre/ It’s not as easy as “sit down and think” - there is some percolation involved.

Stayed up too late last night watching baseball. Wish my team were still in it but glad to not be living with those levels of stress past my bedtime.

2026 Reads: Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by Benjamin Moser 📚

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 27, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/27/i-dont-know-why-youre/ Why do I find joy in cataloguing my collections? I don’t know.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 26, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/26/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Fun evening at the high school seeing the theater kids do an adaptation of Dracula. I think they were having fun doing something a little creepy. Audience was having fun, too.

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 22, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/23/i-dont-know-why-youre/

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 21, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/22/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Can anybody explain why I have had "The Old Castle" from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition stuck in my head all day please thanks

Update on the card catalog: looked at it, decided not to buy this one. Somebody had painted it navy blue, and the paint job was actually pretty good but it now gives “country kitsch project” vibes rather than “old tired wonderful library” vibes. I’ll keep looking.

There’s a little girl behind me at McDonalds excited to go on her class field trip to see the “recycling centaur” and I’m not sure whether she just pronounces it funny or is in for a big disappointment soon

On my bucket list of furniture for my home office (that’s a weird thing to say, I guess) is an old library card catalog, something like this. I’m a library lover and nostalgic, I guess. They’re… remarkably hard to come by and usually pricey. Gonna go look at one tonight that might work, though.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 20, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/21/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Just back from watching You Can See Everything after my 17-yo daughter asked to go see it. Oh my goodness.

Chris Hemsworth's job is to look like Chris Hemsworth. Someone pays him to go to the gym. I get paid to find security vulnerabilities, not to find my abs.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 20, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/20/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Let’s not pretend the reign of Christians and the reign of Christ are somehow one and the same.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 19, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/19/i-dont-know-why-youre/

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

The existential crisis of Nebraska football fandom

So far today I’ve watched a close end to Ohio State - Indiana, a nailbiter in OT for Florida State - Miami, seen Auburn upset #1 Georgia, and BYU survive a last-ditch attempt by Notre Dame. My team, Nebraska, didn’t start until 20 minutes ago. No way I’m gonna stay awake for this one.

2026 Reads: Christianity and Evolution by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 📚

Ran the prices and for this week’s business trip it would’ve been about the same price for me to Uber to/from the airport as to drive my own car and park it there all week and hike in from the long-term lot. I’ve been driving/parking at CID for 25 years. Would be a hard habit to break.

Blink and you’ll miss this legendary spot…: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/16/blink-and-youll-miss-this/

2026 Reads: Diamond Mask by Julian May 📚 Dang it now I wanna just jump into the next (last) book in the series.

My Podcast Experiment: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/16/my-podcast-experiment/

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 16, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/16/i-dont-know-why-youre/

As a Cubs fan I can’t really bring myself to cheer for either the Brewers or the Dodgers here in the NLCS. Guess I’ll be pulling for the AL in the Series. Apologies to my one Brewers-loving friend.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 15, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/15/i-dont-know-why-youre/

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 14, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/14/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Ran the new micro.blog blog audit. (Thanks @manton!) Not as bad as I feared it might be. 20 years of posts… links gonna rot.

Had dinner at Rasika tonight. Delicious. Thanks for the recommendation!

I Don’t Know Why You’re Listening to This: October 13, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/13/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Testing my limited social media reach… I'm staying in DC this week near Georgetown, just north of GWU. Anybody got recommendations for good restaurants? Normally I stay on the other side of the district.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 12, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/12/i-dont-know-why-youre/

I’ve got a mini PC running Debian for my home media and utility server. VNC has always been flaky as a remote desktop option. Got a GL.inet Comet KVM yesterday. It’s super-slick. Tailscale native. Connect USB and HDMI to the PC and can connect to the PC from anywhere I have a browser. Neat.

The Iowa Hawkeyes playing in Seattle tonight against U of W, didn’t start until 8pm central. Fortunately for me, the Hawks are up 27-0 before halftime, think I can safely go to bed. Or switch over to the Iowa State game if ESPN ever lets them start it.

2026 Reads: The last kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the battle for the soul of American cinema by Paul Fischer 📚

Don’t know that I intended to run a half marathon when I started out today. Wasn’t really properly fueled, kinda dragged at the end. Still, a nice accomplishment for a Friday afternoon.

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 9, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/09/i-dont-know-why-youre/

Precisely.

We’re at the point in our relocation plan where I want to keep an eye on real estate listings to get a feel for the housing market, the homes available, the neighborhoods, and so on, but where I am not actually in position to buy a new home for several more months. It’s kind of frustrating.

A more curious response: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/08/a-more-curious-response/

I Don't Know Why You're Listening to This: October 8, 2026: https://chrishubbs.com/2026/10/08/i-dont-know-why-youre/

When it's already 1:30, all you've had so far today is a pot of coffee, and you just gotta scrounge what's in the fridge before the next meeting starts…