Kyle Vargas

@SawForged Sounds great. Thanks.

@kylevargas Thanks! I'll check the neck fitment to see if any adjustments are needed before shipping.

@amandafortini My wife has said this about me. It's great on trivia night! 🤣

I am a font of completely useless knowledge, but it's entertaining at least.

@ChefGruel I've had tallow cooked fries at Calico and recently at Cowboy Star (San Diego). Both were great but totally different styles of fries. Keep up the great work chef!

RE Fries: I will say, this is something no one can agree on in terms of "the perfect fry". Since we opened Calico 3 years ago we have changed the cut size 5 times, changed the soak time, the fry time and temp, the acid to water ratio, the type of beef tallow (and we have tried cutting the tallow with avocado oil and olive oil), blanch in oil or water, batch size, seasoning, and salt type. And still we have people who love them and others who think "meh". We keep some super thin for special requests. AND fries are NOT a money maker. Seeking perfection is an addiction at this point for me.

@Apple Please, please stop pushing iOS26 on me. I've already used Windows Vista. I don't need or want iOS Vista! Seriously, when my iPhone 16 Pro Max dies, I'm moving an Android phone. I've been with ya from Day One! Full Stop!

The people who wanted me fired and imprisoned over a non-functional vaccine against a 99.999% survivable virus are asking me why I don’t have any compassion for them

My theory is that paper straws were the breaking point where most normies stopped really giving a crap about global warming stuff.

My 2026 bass guitar project... a Fender American Ultra/Ultra II Precision Bass. My favorite daughter painted several canvases for a custom pickguard. This is the one I want to use for the pickguard. I just need the pickguard and electronics.

At this point I would settle for government that is merely incompetent, rather than treasonous. You’ve got millions of Americans one health emergency away from bankruptcy, and they have to read about California giving Medicaid to illegals and rampant Somali fraud in Minnesota.

The wife and I are playing with AI image modification while on vacation. Very interesting time distraction while wine tasting. 🤣🍷🤔 Cheers!

Prop 50 is a total betrayal to all California citizens! First, Newsom scraps the 5.7 million votes cast in 2010 to create an independent redistricting commission. A slap in the face to voters. It is like changing the rules of a game because you don't like the outcome. Then he directs the redrawing the lines of Congressional Districts to get rid of Republican representation. He often talks about "threats to democracy" when his own actions are a threat to democracy. VOTE NO ON PROPOSTION 50!

If you don’t like Gavin Newsom REPOST

(Warning: long rant) My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues. Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly. I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own. Here are the facts: Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over. Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept. Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it. These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements. Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this: These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not. These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened. When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice. They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit. And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety. When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.” They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep. And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes. When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person. And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them. For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit. In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations. In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism. > “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.) > “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.) > “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?) > “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.) In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection. > “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.) > “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.) All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells. You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it. Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do. If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

I believe this photo explains our daughter to a tee. Let's ignore the fact that the box was designed to be opened a certain way. And the designer thought about efficient use of space in the fridge too. Our daughter ignored that sh!t and opened it however the f*ck she wanted to. Her task was simply to get to the product inside that shitty box. 🥴

🤣🥴 This is so true when trying to build a sourdough starter from scratch. You follow Chad Robertson's, Richard Bertinet's, or Ken Forkish's methods/instructions and nothing happens for several attempts to get the starter to work. It does get better, I promise. @RichardBertinet @KenForkish

On this thirsty Thursday, Gavin Newscum awaits his favorite drink…

We had one of the best lunches @CalicoFishHouse today. Our first time here. My picky eater finally enjoyed the extra crispy fries at the end of the meal but she LOVED the cookies and ice cream! Excellent experience @ChefGruel.

@RealJamesWoods Sounds like San Francisco East. Good luck with that NYC.

@FredMinnick Not really. For similar reasons as stated here. I have more than I can really drink now. Don't need more bottles sitting on shelves at home. 🥴

Barrel picks. Are you still buying them?