Cody Kirkpatrick

Fun parking fact about IU: I was on the committee the year we voted to implement a tiered rate structure. Kept rates flat if making $35k/yr, raised them 15% if making > $100k/yr.

I didn't get a campus committee assignment for two years after that. Correlation not causation, I'm sure.........😶

Excellent question and thankfully no! Some states have it, others have a different state motto or slogan. But even here in Indiana, there are about a dozen options to choose from. I have the other very popular one, with a "covered bridge."

radar snapshot of rainfall estimates centered on Bedford Indiana

An overnight reminder for friends in Bloomington: depending on how long this current area of rainfall hangs around, we could have flooding. See the radar estimates below: over 3" tonight down next to Bedford & Oolitic.

Do NOT drive if a road is covered with water. Even if you "know" the road.

Just a reminder to my friends in town that you should rely on the National Weather Service, your trusted TV mets, and other folks who don’t constantly over-adjective everything. Be critical consumers of weather info too and skip the hype.

‪(Sensitive about this because when I was a kid our “family business” was security. Had like 100 employees at one point. Where I learned to type, deal with taxes, double entry bookkeeping, and… which companies in a tiny town needed weekly dry ice courier service, lol.)‬

Rear of a vehicle with an expired tags part of the tag number is marked out

That’s now two separate MSI Security vehicles I’ve seen around town with badly expired tags. Doesn’t instill much confidence in their services, frankly.

The real “enrollment cliff”

🤣 love it! Definitely needs more tunnel, too

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.

(🎥 Doni Nikz)

"Don't be your child's first bully" is pretty good advice.

burt's shrimp lip balm parody ad in an onion newspaper

really appreciating the onion as physical media.

my favorite bluesky arguments are the long drawn-out ones where person a responds via direct reply and person b exclusively answers through quote-posts. it's like seeing two people arguing on the street with one person facing sideways and shouting into the open door of a baskin robbins

Yep, manosphere is a viewership numbers / content churn game like many others, albeit with extra toxic effects.

Though I do bristle at the suggestion (not by Sarah) that "the left" never talks about dude problems. We do, but not with as many misogyny-for-clicks podcasts hawking scam boner pills.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Underrated hypothesis, honestly

Please let this finally kill off the “required Canvas discussion” assignments, which are my least favorite form of busywork ever.

Yep the sirens are definitely working. 🎵 Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🎵

(For a couple years, we’ve been using the AccuWeather API. Good forecasts, reliable, really nice icons. But they’re ditching their free tier, so I’m out. Can’t justify hundreds per year for our use case.)

Current Conditions in Bloomington, Indiana Data from openweathermap.org Last report Fri 1 Aug at 11:20 AM Temperature 71°F Dewpoint 55°F Relative Humidity 57% Wind NE at 13 mph UV Index Moderate Weather Day Night Fri 1 Aug 76 61 Sat 2 Aug 76 54 Sun 3 Aug 81 55 Mon 4 Aug 78 62

We switched our hallway weather display to Open Weather and the sun icon color is unfortunately perfect for this smoke-filled sky.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain cooler temperatures, and lose his air quality?
— #INwx 8:36

A screenshot of social media posts. The first post by Anna Baas (@venite) reads: "A friend learned COBOL and received a codebase where the last change was done in the 90s... by. his. mum." The second post by nobody (@imaguid) replies: "that's not how inheritance is supposed to work in programming"

This conversation made me laugh 🤭

Visible satellite image over Indiana

Thunderstorm anvil over a downtown scene

I love how this thunderstorm anvil has cast such a weird color over Bloomington in the last half hour. Visible satellite imagery and a downtown view of it below.

Chart showing average Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm activity from May to December based on data from 1944 to 2020. Activity increases sharply in August, peaking in mid-September. A marker indicates the current date as July 28, just before activity begins to rise.

On average, 86% of all named tropical systems in the Atlantic occur after August 2, and the first hurricane doesn't form until August 11.
We have a long season to go. Prepare now – Learn how at weather.gov/safety/hurricane

one academic view i hold is that declared helplessness surrounding administrative tasks is both rude and non-credible

my reactionary take is that while academic centralization generally sucks, what also sucks is grown-ass adults pretending they are above clicking a few buttons and feeling OK about asking their colleagues to do their busywork for them

Panel of a comic strip by James F. Regan, showing a precipitating cumulus cloud (raining) that appears to be vomiting

Every time I see one of those it reminds me of this comic by James Regan 😄

A heavy rain shower in the distance, with buildings, tennis courts, and green grass in the foreground

Pretty sure it’s raining over there.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Our friend spectrum width is again helping locate a gust front, this time from the showers and storms to our north. Not sure how much it would end up cooling us down today though, it’s pretty far away from these storms. Maybe a couple degrees. We’ll see.

Screenshot of an Andy Griffith episode

You’re from North Carolina, surely you know the boundaries of the United States…