Peter Wagner (a Real Dr., not a surgeon-barber/body-tech/golfer)

Hanlon’s Razor cuts itself!

I was a tween in Middle School (and sometimes in Middle-earth) when this was launched.

I hear that it starts with an earthquake, then birds, snakes & aeroplanes…

True, dis.

I smell pro-deuterostome prejudice… 😎

The trick is trying to figure out when these people are playing dumb and when they are just being dumb.

I was describing on Monday how we recognize Mass Extinctions to my 105 class from the rates falling outside the distribution of typical extinction rates, and how they could learn more about that type of analysis in advanced stats classes: but, oh no, the morons just killed our stats department! 😡

Yeah, bullpens are a huge crapshoot. The sample sizes on relievers are so small every year that the same baseline performance can produce wildly different results. I liked last year’s group, but I wouldn’t bet more than a used shoe lace on repeat outcomes.

I cannot wait to watch him give up high leverage walks and homers!

Yeah, this is the big problem with hoping that Yankee science can somehow be preserved elsewhere in “exile” until liberal democracy returns to the US (which might be a long time!) is that those liberal democracies really should make positions for their own scientists first.

I like the concept of “future proof” although I’ve never been able to do that myself!

Drop a lawyer

That there would be an instant economic windfall induced by deporting all of the people who don't need SBF 50 to avoid skin cancer on a partly cloudy day?

… it is unusable for me!)

What IDE is this? And what language is it compiling?

(I have been looking for an IDE to compile C/C++ for nearly 20 years, ever since CodeWarrior stopped working for Macs; as X-Code’s debugger will not show you values in pointers, and as my code has to allocate memory on dataset by dataset bases,…

The "Dead" contrast is telling.

Well, you win the "Putin has hurt me the most!" contest in this thread. As a reward you get... um... 5 Crusty Dollars to be redeemed at Crustyland.

Yeah, we’ve really got to stop this “hold my beer” competition between the US & UK: Putin & Fox ‘News’ won it a long time ago…

And you thought that you had sent them all to the States...

Brachiopod 1: "See you in the fossil record?"

Brachiopod 2: "Yeah, probably!"

Heh, Prohibition might have hurt US productivity, but the rest of the world kept right on drinking and naming species!

That’s the “I nailed a balrog nip-clip.”

That’s actually the jingling that Frodo hears when Glorfindel rode up: that’s his Gondolin swag!

Huh, I must be misaligning things with my eyes: I cannot make that dip cover the teens.

You can see the Great Depression and WWII, but I am surprised that WWI isn’t visible.

Sorry, post-Party Bilbo!

Actually, that was one of my small gripes with the films: Bilbo should have started off looking like a 30-something.

Of course, with all the smoking & a n RFK Jr. quality diet, that would be a 1950s 30-something!

And how do I get it off?

To the Elves, these years fleet by and it is a grief to them 🧝‍♀️ 🧝‍♂️ .

For me, I’ve gone from looking like Frodo to looking like Bilbo!

Meaning of Life is great, but I never found it to be rewatchable as Life of Brian and (especially) Holy Grail.

But, hey, Yule is approaching: which means that the Wagner-Lyons family goes from looking like hobbits to watching hobbits...

I’ve probably recited Holy Grail from memory 6+ times, too.

Why stop there? Send him back 67 million years and feed him to the theropods!