Paul B. 🎳

@pb317

Indianapolis, but not Indiana. Never a hoosier. Ever. I like to partake in sim-racing and pickleball and other worthwhile endeavors that I'm honestly not very good at doing.

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Paul B. 🎳@pb317· 24d

Flea market find. Yeah, buddy!

Greenlight 2006 1:64 scale die-cast Dan Wheldon #10 Target Indy car.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jun 2

Fun, but I got incredibly lucky. 82-0!

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· May 24

New year, new seats. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed, at the end of pit lane.

panorama of the pagoda, scoring tower, end of pit lane, and turn one at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· May 23

Took my mom to her first Fever game last night. Good times. Very chippy on the court - wouldn’t be surprised to see it carry over to the game at Golden State Thursday night. Also, RED PANDA HALFTIME!

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· May 18

pretzel brat with some type of mustard dipping sauce. good stuff.

paddock penthouse row AA
Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· May 16

Spent the past two Friday nights participating the iRacing Indianapolis 500 special event. Wildly different handling cars, starting positions, and fuel strategies each week. Throw in a little luck here and there and I ended up winning both. Crazy stuff.

Screen shot of iRacing app race results page.

Last Races

Date: 15 May
iRacing.com Indy 500
Finish: 1
Start: 5
SOF: 1533

Date: 08 May
iRacing.com Indy 500 - Fixed
Finish: 1
Start: 26
SOF: 1502

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Apr 28

That doggone goblin semi back at it again?

Screenshot of sentient semi truck from 1986 movie, Maximum Overdrive. In the movie, this vehicle and other machines become sentient and team up together, attempting to wipe out all humans.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Apr 26

Big cringe boomer energy on this one. My least favorite thing about it is on the other side. "Kate Sweeney Bell has been…" who knows?This guy can’t read the red text on black background. Grrrr.

Image with arrow emoji pointed at this mailer’s Design 101 squint test fail.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Apr 11

You say it’s Happy National Pet Day? These stinkers just turned 2 on Thursday.

Beatrice, tabby, looking between balusters at who knows what.

Beatrice, perched on loft, looks down on her subjects.

Midnight, black cat, on the hunt for skritches.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Mar 29

A week after the real event, the iRacing 12 Hours of Sebring took place yesterday and Fri. The four of us driving the EBC Racing #317 Dallara (LM)P217 did four tanks of fuel in each of our 3h shifts. Slight spoiler alert: We did well, but not without a little drama. To be continued…

Pictured here: EBC Racing’s Joe Barryhill, 2nd from left in the LMP2 class #317, pictured here going four-wide down the back straight at Sebring International Speedway, passing two GT3 class cars to the driver’s left, and an LMP2 competitor to the driver’s right.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Feb 16

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jan 2

What book is sacred enough to me to get sworn in on? It’s the first design book on the subject that got things to click for me when I read it. Changes everything. Before reading it, I was a know-nothing noob, while after I was the 'tables-suck-for-layouts, use CSS instead' guy in my circle.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing For The Web
Hâkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos
Addison-Wesley, 1999

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Dec 30

Hater in the house (mine).

Map of of United States where each state's color corresponds to my living preference (Never, Reluctantly, Maybe, Willing, Absolutely).

Never
18 states
(35%)

Reluctantly
14 states
(27%)

Maybe
12 states
(24%)

Willing
1 states
(2%)

Absolutely
6 states
(12%)

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Nov 17

The other cat, Midnight. We call her Midi. Beep boop blop. 🎶 I rarely get good pictures of her, as they usually look like she’s a dark blob. She likes getting skritches and taking naps.

Midnight!

Black cat with just a little bit of white hair on her chest.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Nov 17

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Nov 12

It’s beautiful. Wow.

Northern lights as captured from western Hancock County, Indiana. 1/4

Northern lights as captured from western Hancock County, Indiana. 2/4

Northern lights as captured from western Hancock County, Indiana. 3/4

Northern lights as captured from western Hancock County, Indiana. 4/4

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Oct 27

Mr. Owl, shown here ignoring boy with Tootsie Pop. He is now staring at you, Andrew.

Zooming in: Mr. Owl, still staring at you, Andrew.

The scholarly owl continues ignoring Tootsie Pop being offered to him.

Tight zoom, framed on Mr. Owl’s face. Mr. Owl is still staring at you, Andrew.

Oh, no!

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Oct 19

And are you married?

Screenshot from The Simpsons S8/Ep 6, 'A Milhouse Divided', in which Kirk Van Houten shows Homer his cool race car bed after separating from his wife, Luann. Quote over the image is taken from the recent Wired Magazine article on Tesla Cybertruck owners, and reads:
"I WAS MARRIED, BUT IM NOT MARRIED ANYMORE, WOMEN DON'T LIKE THE VEHICLE."

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Oct 18

Our tabby, Beatrice (1.5y), unknowingly posed for a photo this morning. Here she is, next to a pillow my wife had made. The front panel of the pillow is from a t-shirt she wore as a child when at her father’s. He was a White Sox fan. The shirt commemorates the 1983 A.L. West division title.

Beatrice the cat, half sitting on sofa arm, half on sofa cushion, next to a white and red pillow with a cartooned "Winnin’ UGLY" White Sox baseball player, drawn in the team’s white, navy, and red 80’s color scheme.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Oct 1

Hot. Dog. Good stuff.

Look, we're all very worried here about rising fascism. But it's time to take a deep breath and remember this: If Christian music appealed to anyone outside the white evangelical world, we'd have seen evidence of it by now. CCM has been around for decades, and yet it remains what it always was - watered down versions of sounds that were popular on the radio years ago. Gate attempted to equate the popularity of CCM in white evangelical circles with the way Wagner was synonymous with German cultural pride. But they are categorically different. Despite his rancid politics, Wagner was a true genius who remains popular nearly 150 years after his death. Both CCM and worship music are subpar forms that white evangelicals settle for because they think you can catch demons from the real stuff.

Popular music may not be satanic, but MAGA is right to see it as mostly liberal. That's why they fear it. Far from avoiding transcendent artistic experiences, the left can lay claim to most of them. Most everything from Taylor Swift to the grittiest punk music is made by people on the left. That's why evangelicals want their kids to avoid it. They rightly believe that it's hard to go back to mediocrity after you've tasted excellence.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Sep 20

HAHAHAHHAA! YES!

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Sep 19

After some editing, best I could do…

Crescent moon with Venus and Regulus.
9/19/25 - As seen from southeast Indianapolis, IN, iPhone 13 Pro.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Sep 11

stop with the flash, the cats say, laying on the couch

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Sep 11

My cats.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Sep 9

love it giving me chairry vibes

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jul 16

Got served this ad on youtube yesterday. Completely bonkers and pretty distasteful - some sort of AI creation that I still don’t understand. It had the Share option disabled, so I screen recorded it so I had proof I wasn’t having a fever dream.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jul 16

Don’t mind me, just figuring the ins and outs of animations in quote reposts on this here app.

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jul 13

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jul 4

This cat is my brother’s. A good cat.

I am zee cat Louise, I will pose for you as if I am a french kitty. rawr hawr HAR!

Paul B. 🎳@pb317· Jun 11

lol, lmao, my guy Fuck outta here with your prayers on commute times and concerns on money spent. If not for your lies and constant meddling over the past ten years, it would already be up and running on its original route, and built for a lower total cost.