Rolling past a guy sitting next to what looked like a loaded 45 will rearrange your priorities fast, especially when concealed carry training is part of how your brain processes it — turns out it was “just” a BB gun, and he’s lucky nobody found that out the hard way.
Last week I said the machine was live. That was only technically true. This week it’s actually done — galleries fixed, bugs dead, and I’m entirely too proud of it to shut up about.
An emergency pharmacy run after eight o’clock at the local Dollar General reveals a post-apocalyptic fashion show featuring local residents wearing industrial-strength Hefty bags.
A deep dive into Smackdaddy’s Gourmet Grub, the Chippewa Valley food truck redefining street eats with world-class comfort food and permanent patio residency at The Brewing Projekt.
The website rebuild is officially live and the core bugs are squashed. To celebrate, we are launching a terrifying new chronicle series dedicated to questionable culinary creations and kitchen alchemy.
Sorry for the dead air. Rolling with Scissors is back on track with a brand-new custom website built from scratch, streamlined categories, and a fix on the way for the Signal Drift archives
A bar in Madison, a band called Flat Atom, and a single beer that changed everything. Two decades later, Recluse Studios is a rat-rod skunkworks building local-first audio software with the philosophy that the tool should belong to you.
When you spend $50,000 on a car, you test drive it first. When you need a $50,000 power wheelchair, insurance hands you a brochure, refuses to cover basic independent living features like seat elevation, and leaves you praying the custom seat cushion doesn’t destroy your hips for the next five years. Here is the absolute absurdity of trying to buy a modern mobility device in America.
Political campaign ads run on deliberate misinformation and emotional spin. Examining election advertising standards, AI panic narratives, medical guidelines, computing infrastructure needs, and official USDA farmland data cuts through the noise.
We have GPUs capable of real-time ray-traced physics at 240Hz, but our desktop operating systems are artificially lobotomized so nobody accidentally breaks anything. From the Gibson in Hackers to Penelope Garcia’s command deck, Hollywood gave us a vision of computing as a high-touch craft—before big tech sanded down every sharp edge for the lowest common denominator.