Jack Daniel (often offline)

Storyteller, wanderer, comic, bartender, blacksmith, luthier, historian, mechanic, world’s oldest millennial. I used to do stuff, now I do other stuff.

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jack_daniel_at_mastodon.social@momostr.pink

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yabu.me

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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2025-10-10 12:55:50 UTC

Uncle Jack is becoming cranky.

2025-10-05 11:30:03 UTC

The great thing about solo drives, especially in the dark, is that you get to be alone with your thoughts.
The terrifying thing about solo drives, especially in the dark, is that you get to be alone with your thoughts.

2025-08-27 13:28:51 UTC

local ISP is offering a exterior Wi-Fi access point bundle, so I asked them for the specs. They said it’ll reach 100 feet. I asked them Wi-Fi five or six. No response. Remember when ISPs had smart, technical people on the front lines? I vaguely remember something like that from long, long ago.

2025-07-25 17:33:04 UTC

Just told my ISP "May the backhoe of despair forever hunt your underground fiber"

2025-06-25 19:28:35 UTC

Made another banjo. Rather big. Eight feet overall. (That's about 2.4 meters in them foreign numbers).
Art piece only, not a player.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/745/636/561/847/283/original/e3bad696fab9ff14.png

2025-06-12 12:34:32 UTC

"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Richard J. Daley

2025-06-03 11:58:11 UTC

"It's not that hard, you just have to do it"
Ah, OK, so it is very hard.

2025-04-29 12:08:23 UTC

I did a thing last week. Went up to southwest North Carolina, in southern Appalachia, and did a banjo building workshop. It looks fantastic and sounds even better. Made with local Appalachian hardwoods, maple and walnut.
Check out https://www.mulheronbanjos.com/ for info and to the three stunning work Lindsey does.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/421/157/963/974/210/original/af94305335c3bfa1.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/421/166/570/474/155/original/81fa75ae1e7b1d40.png

2025-04-03 17:31:57 UTC

as someone who regularly drives vehicles with such advanced features as turn signals you have to turn off yourself, and manual chokes, whenever I drive a new car I flip back-and-forth between that’s awesome, that’s stupid, I could get used to that, I could never get used to that.

2025-03-31 15:39:42 UTC

I'm such a toddler. It's raining, waaah, everything is wet, I can't be outside, waaaah, everything sucks.
I guess I'll just do laundry and mope, but not in that order.

2025-03-25 00:22:39 UTC

Holy shit, I didn't think my opinion of CBP could get any lower, but here we are.
Not national news, not even local news, but just another drunken fascist flashing a badge, being 86ed from a local joint, refusing to leave, and meeting local LE.

2025-02-25 14:21:30 UTC

Remember those kiosks in malls where folks would write names on grains of rice and stuff?
Where are those people now?
Writing instruction manuals, that's where.

2025-02-07 17:09:47 UTC

Oh hell, this escape room looks impossible.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/963/701/150/808/689/original/570bb1e65df8298f.png

2024-12-12 00:52:37 UTC

Tonight's inspirational quote:
"What the fuck, we're old."
(In reference to dessert)

2024-10-31 23:21:09 UTC

Kid dressed as Don Johnson in Miami Vice? Check.
Kid with great mask, which completely blinded them? Check.
Absolutely adorable little witch? Check.
Kid too old to be trick or treating? Not here, life looms, take extra candy and brace yourself for what's ahead.

2024-10-29 12:33:27 UTC

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We loved East Berlin. There was a real generational difference when we went to the few wall remains. Generally, the older the visitor, the more somber their reaction.

2024-10-20 23:49:02 UTC

Maybe conspiracy theory, maybe reality, maybe both:
TFG is running to avoid spending his last years in prison, the R machine is running TFG as a Trojan horse to install JDV, the 2O25 puppet. I believe the R machine might even go all 25th if he wins and lasts too long in his decayed state.
Or, maybe I need another G&T.
Or all of the above.

2024-10-16 14:30:46 UTC

of all the so-called wars that this country has launched on social and political problems, things like the war on drugs, crime, poverty, the only one that we have absolutely won is the war on education.

2024-10-05 15:26:30 UTC

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(X) Other: I use custom full laptop skins which cover everything.

2024-09-12 23:47:03 UTC

While I'm at it
"Ground Control to Dementia Don
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Dementia Don?
Can you hear me, Dementia Don?
Can you hear me, Dementia Don?"

2024-09-11 12:30:45 UTC

It's just not fair, I mean she stooped to using complete, coherent, and grammatically correct sentences.

2024-08-20 22:19:34 UTC

Inside you there are two wolves. They've both been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

2024-08-20 01:28:47 UTC

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I always think of this gem when DNC '68 comes up.
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
Richard J. Daley

2024-07-31 12:59:18 UTC

I get to use "bless your heart" in the proper context in a business email today.
Life really doesn't get much better than that.