Laplace's Dylan

Getting tense and true over at BICAS

Where everybody knows your name, but only the Great Old Ones know the name of the bar

Forgot to tag this for the #birds feed, oops

A brown pelican perching atop a post in a marina, in from of a boat

Obligatory St. Pete pelican

I am a man who likes several stereotypically manosphere-adjacent things (lifting, sports including combat sports) and I loathe the manosphere

Doubly so if you drink coffee with her in the morning I hear

Clouds glowing orange in the sunset, viewed from inside a baseball stadium

Say what you will about Steinbrenner Field, but the sunsets are pretty good

Joining a chorus here of course, but reading at the bar is a perfect leisure activity. Last week I went for a book+cocktail after a long day at work. A bartender told me people thought it was weird but she also liked to read there on her days off, then we traded book recs. 10/10 would recommend

23, but it'll be 24 in a week when I go to #JSM2025

(this is not unlike ambrosen's suggestion) if you have a tube of 5 minute epoxy handy, you could coat the broken end with a dollop of epoxy to round off the edges -- obviously it wouldn't stand up on end anymore though

A half-open sunflower, with an apartment courtyard full of cacti and other desert plants in the background

Planted sunflowers on a lark because I had a couple empty pots and I'm very happy I did!

Never going to complain about Jansen getting on base ofc, but Chandler Simpson being stuck behind the catcher on the basepaths does take a little of the fun out of watching him

Took me a second to realize that said 1890 and not 1980. That's very cool

As someone who went to grad school in math, I have long been familiar with "vibe physics", in the form of unsolicited crackpot emails about the lost secrets of Archimedes or whatever. Nothing new here

Navy blue baseball glove embroidered with a portrait of a white cat named Matilda.

Seattle Mariners’ reliever/cat daddy Andres Munoz unveiled his All-Star Game glove today, with a portrait of Matilda on it. 😻 #CatsofBlueSky

Selfie close up on Dylan's arm, bandaged with a red bandage around his elbow following a blood donation

Inching towards that two gallon mark

Yes, cookie recipes exist to satisfy an Episcopalian mindset.

A male Anna's hummingbird, photographed in profile with its beak pointing to the right, perched on the copper wire supporting a hummingbird feeder. The bird is in the shade, so its gorget appears dark instead of shining bright red as it would in the sun.

A tiny sentinel

#birds

Maravilloso. Estoy estudiando español, y un podcast de física es perfecto para mi. Gracias por el post!

A moment I still remember from undergad classes: in a discussion section for first quarter QM, another student complained that she was tired of the harmonic oscillator. The TA said, "I have some bad news," and then turned and wrote on the board:

Everything is a harmonic oscillator

For me, I think it would have to be a Hozier song. I've never quite had it in me to put one in at bar karaoke. Lately, occasionally I think on a good day I could manage "Too Sweet"... and then I try to sing along with a youtube karaoke track.

Maybe if I modify the high notes a bit

A small brown bird (perhaps some kind of finch) perching on a saguaro cactus, with its entire head stuck inside a bright red fruit that has split open. Another split open fruit sits to the right of the bird. Photograph taken in Tucson, Arizona

It's saguaro fruit season, and I'm clearly not the only one excited about that #birds

wikipedias featured article of the day is the page for Emmy noether

yooooo

Cover of the children's book "Busy Machines" with a cartoon bulldozer pushing rocks around

Ah yes. I was raised on this predecessor

#nokings Tucson this morning, reusing a sign from the first Trump administration that's unfortunately even more relevant than before. Thank you to the Tucson community for showing up to protest authoritarian actions by Trump and Republicans and stand up for democracy.

The only crime happening outside a Home Depot at 7:00 AM is that the workers waiting outside are underpaid

Glad to see both my original home team and my adopted team in the correct column here

On the fence between a nice Scotch or a nice mezcal

Suppose there's no rule against both, eh

Ends today!