ROLEY

  • The Verbs: April 2015

    Watching: Bosch Legacy, Season 3

    Bosch, for my money, is one of the best shows on TV. Legacy is the last season that Harry Bosch will be the main character, although he may be in the spinoffs as a side character. If you haven’t caught this, it’s on Amazon Prime. Watch this.

    Reading: Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams

    Memoir about life behind the scenes at Meta/Facebook. Here is your periodic reminder that Facebook was not invented for altruistic purposes, and Mark Zuckerberg has never done the right thing without being dragged to it.

    Jamming: Tracy Chapman, Self titled.

    There is no better time to listen to this album than RIGHT. NOW.

    Podding: Amicus, with Dahlia Lithwick.

    Dahlia Lithwick has been covering the Supreme Court forever. I trust what she has to say about the Court, and the law.

    Working: I’m suffering from a bit of second thoughts about the video. I’ve scripted three separate versions of something ad aborted halfway through. So, taking another whack at it.

  • LINK: Justice Roberts Statement

    Newsweek:

    “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

    So, you’re saying it’s settled law? That’s reassuring…

    Fuck.

  • LINK: Tim Berners-Lee on Social Media

    Tim Berners-Lee

    One way to do this is to mandate that social network platforms follow new standards. Another is to quietly build an alternative world using these standards and let people realise that it is better — just as they did when leaving restricted online services AOL and Prodigy for the freedom of the web.

    Tim mentions a new standard called Solid, that acts as a wallet. People can build new apps that request access to user data in that wallet, and the user has control of that. I have one question: Do we need this? It’s presuming that some kind of social media is part of the solution. I don’t know if that’s true.

  • PSA: Blood thinners and sharp corners are not a great combination,

    Back to you in the studio, Walter.

  • I find it hilarious that even though I haven’t used my LinkedIn account in years, I still show up on people’s searches. There is literally nothing descriptive in my LinkedIn account. all it guarantees is that I check it like once every couple months, and laugh about it. 

  • “Easy payments, think of it, the payments, you’ve never seen anything like them, whiter wall tires, I call them whiter wall tires, whiter than ever seen before…”

    [image or embed]— Roley (@krisroley.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM

  • PHOTO: When This Album Drops…

  • PHOTO: One Happy Cat

    My co-worker requires attention.

  • The Verbs: March 2025

    Watching: Death In Paradise, BBC

    With the new season starting to show up on BritBox, I decided to do a rewatch of the whole thing. Yes, it’s a cookie cutter kind of crime procedural, but it’s very British, very fish out of water, and very funny at times. In this day and age, it’s comfort food to keep my mind off of what’s going on in the world. You have to find bits of joy in things somewhere or you’ll go nuts. Here’s one of mine.


    Reading: The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson

    I’ve never watched Fear and Loathing. I did watch The Rum Diary, which got my curiosity up to actually read Hunter. Also, I grew up reading Doonesbury, and Uncle Duke is…well…yeah. Hunter reminds me of that guy who listens very carefully to everyone’s advice, and then does whatever he was going to do in the first place.

    We’re talking about HUNTER. Not ROLEY, HUNTER.


    Jamming: Who Let The Dogs Out, Lambrini Girls

    Heard the song “Company Culture’ on Strombo, and sometimes you just need some thing that kicks your ass. I submit this for your gluteal destruction.



    Podding:  Reclaiming, Monica Lewinski

    Yes, Monica Lewinski. If anyone knows about taking back the narrative of their life, I think she does. She has conversations with people who have dealt with some great difficulties, and how they did it. If you know me, it’s right up my alley.


    Working: My goal for March is to make a video. It is not a TikTok or a reel, but a video. Horizontal storytelling is what we did in the pioneer times.

  • I’ve reached the age where I am not the least bit interested in the dog and pony show for you to make a point. Tell me what you need to tell me, no drama is required. If you can’t do that, then I’m not interested in hearing it.