Ryan Kirkbride

"Quantity has a quality all its own" - Probably someone other than Stalin

#7 in black is the most perfect cheap pen ever made and I will not be taking questions at this time.

My department core facility is currently learning that letting a lab borrow the vibratome that "no one ever really uses" is a quick and inconvenient way to learn exactly how many users there really are :/

The U.S. Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time Before. Here’s What Happened "Daylight Saving Time has always been controversial," says David Prerau, author of 'Seize the Daylight'

We have done it, multiple times in multiple locations. Everyone loves it until their kids have to catch the bus in the pitch dark and the sun doesn't come up until second period.

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There just isn't a good answer.

Brunton compass - Wikipedia

Geologists and Crew-served artillery units. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunton...

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Just loooooook at iiiiiittttttttttt: www.brunton.com/products/blu...

I have discovered the Brunton Compass, it is beautiful, absurdly expensive, and I don't need it. I don't. Stop it.

I liked the remake, but it lacked the OG charm of ablative squadie armor to filter out who were the real team rockstars. Need to fire up the original again sometime.

As an undergrad ages ago, larger classes sometimes had an authorized note taking services where you could straight up buy notes (and maybe miss the occasional lecture). Learned the hard way that making the notes, class after class, was by far the most important part.

A cluttered hobby table with three glass mugs with handles in the foreground. One vibrant yellow liquid, one cloudy red, and the last clear but offputting.

Dangers of the hobby table. One of these is my tumeric and ginger tea, two are the forbidden paintbrush wash water.

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- Macross Plus
- Wings of Honneamise
- Vision of Escaflowne
- Ninja Scroll
- Fushigi Yûgi
- Ghost in the Shell
- Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (I know.)
- 08th MS Team
- Memories
- Short Peace

Hard same. Props to the author, but Christ... those assholes. May go back and try to finish it once I recover some sanity points.

As someone raised Mormon, when I came across that story line I was very much "wow, deep cut and 100% something future space Mormons would do"

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The Super Bowl may be taking place in Santa Clara, but the Super Bowl ads are taking place squarely in the Uncanny Valley. Yeech.

American Idiot at the #SuperBowl. LFG.

#Puppybowl!!!

Wait... there is a SECOND Defunctland channel I and I am not subscribed?

Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.

🫡 Absolute legend. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Olympic curling is such an outsized treat every four years. I cannot rationally explain it.

I just remembered there is going to be curling soon and my whole day improved.

YouTube video by Slow Horses Fan Blake's Grave Meetup | Slow Horses Season 1

My favorite thing about River is that he is basically a highly excitable but slightly dim puppy. The clip from season 1 with him just running off in the wrong direction while Lamb shakes his head is a perfect summation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZax...

You would not believe the administrative process the University made me go through because we accidentally were charged/paid $0.25 in sales tax on bottled water for the cooler. (UT is supposed to be exempt).

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Pls send eagles.

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It's a three-day weekend and my paper has been accepted. Time for the gif:

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Showing the grad students how to use the microinjection rig today. Step one was to show them how to blow bubbles to make sure everything was working. Embarrassingly I had to spend a little bit explaining my ensuing reference.

Very nice! I've got my copy I've been holding off until I get my practice in with the companions/terminators and other characters. Consider him the final boss of my DA painting projects. Was thinking going bare headed, but like the look of the hood on yours.

YouTube video by CBS News How Andy Celebrates New Year's Eve

Some things are perfect. Timeless. Like a crystal. Once a year, you should help yourself to the most flawless thing the late great Andy Rooney ever made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KngG...

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We’re hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We’re hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We’re hungry and we don’t have words to articulate why. We’re hungry, and we’re lacking and we’re wanting. We are

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t.” [joanwestenberg.com]