Ben Combee

Presenting the 1.0 version of Kablooey! for the @repebble.com Time 2, an homage to the classic Activision game Kaboom!

"Mr. Oreo, I think I've got the perfect pop-up activation spot for you."

Definitely worth a watch, and not just because I'm one of the producers.

Streaming Village 1.4.0 for color #pebble watches is now published. This time, I added some a few friends visiting from time to time. Get it at apps.repebble.com/streaming-vi....

I've been using Zen as my main browser all this year and love it. It tends to keep up well with the core Firefox browsing engine and it hosts the full uBlock Origin experience.

As best I can tell, it's impossible to send the simple text message "stop" using Android Auto's voice assistant, as that's also the "don't listen to me anymore" cue.

It's #earlyVoting sticker selfie time again. Let's make Texas blue!

I survived the impromptu Thompson Twins sing-a-long at the Master Pancake "Evil Dead II" show.

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Neil Diamond Age

Mandola's (local Italian chain) now has vegan meatballs as an upcharge option. I had them on a panini and they were decent. #vegoutaustin

I've not watched the Ted Lasso S4 finale yet, but my hot take on the season is that the writing reminds of an improv player that always goes with the first idea. I was taught that you get better results when you reject that one and go for idea #2, as that will be more original and more true.

I was trying to 3-D print the whole Shire from the Lord of the Rings books, but I had to stop. . . . . It was too hobbit-forming. #dadjoke

Announcer at Southwest gate at #AUS just unintentionally sparked the "is a taco a sandwich?" debate.

Trans rights are human rights. The fuck are we even doing here?

I'm beginning to think that not all of the campaigns and PACs are honoring my "stop" SMS responses.

Kablooey!, my Pebble Time 2 homage to Kaboom!, got updated to version 1.1 on Friday. I made the art for the bomber a little clearer and made drawing faster, so playing it won't run down your battery as quickly. apps.repebble.com/kablooey_1e6...

Waking up to discover the Tillamook Smoked Cheddar shirt I picked up on the factory tour in Oregon this summer is now appropriately left-wing coded.

Here we go: My first real feature film You, Your Brain, & You is now FREE and PUBLIC on both YouTube and Vimeo! This movie's been hard to see for a long time and I'm thrilled to get it back out into the world. A fun and weird mockumentary about the brain! Links in comments.

So, I pushed 1.2.0 of the Streaming Village watchface last night, with support for all the color #pebble watches, and I made animated images to post to the store page too. (apps.repebble.com/streaming-vi...)

Don't talk to me or my three sons ever again. Round watch support to be pushed very soon for Streaming Village.

Just returned from a screening of "Coyote vs. Acme" with the kids. Everyone had a good time, although some jokes definitely need reading skills, and others riffed off things that aren't so familiar to kids not raised on Looney Tunes on TV every afternoon. Recommended.

Just posted my first version of a @jamestalarico.bsky.social watchface for Pebble OS. It shows the campaign logo and current time, but every minute, there's a quick flashy display of one of the campaign slogans.

Just posted my first version of a @jamestalarico.bsky.social watchface for Pebble OS. It shows the campaign logo and current time, but every minute, there's a quick flashy display of one of the campaign slogans.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live The New Pornographers Asylum Street Spankers Tegan & Sara They Might Be Giants The B-52's Freezepop Los Campesinos! Ben Folds Sparks Sleater-Kinney

I like Bluesky. It has enough critical mass so that my terrible dad jokes and occasional project announcements get a few likes, and I'm OK with that. I can keep up with political opinion and news here and also geek out here.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

A dark day for human rights.

Just noticed that the revised artwork for the movie "WarGames" that shows up in Roku search features a book on C++ that wasn't published until 1985, two years after the film.

I watched the 1993 film "Demolition Man" tonight for the first time since it came out, as I remembered that I enjoyed it. There's some fun satire of what they thought 2032 life would be like, but so much filler and scenes stuffed with over-the-top violence without consequences.

Had a blast at the Portland Pickles game tonight. No heated riv-dill-ary, but plenty of weiner dogs running around the field and vegan hot dogs available.