Nick

And all these right wing dudes struggling to find themselves girlfriends continues to make sense.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

- Robert M. Pirsig

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Replaceable You Adventures in Human Anatomy Mary Roach

Got Mary Roach’s new book for my birthday. She is one of the greats and if you haven’t read Fuzz or Stiff you’re missing out.

“American Exceptionalism”

A large low whorls over the Upper Midwest, bringing a winter storm to the region and having created blizzard conditions in the Northern Plains yesterday.

Since Regan.

2 new tires and an oil change, $600. Exactly what I wanted to use my refund for.

Caveat: November-January. This late in to February is annoying.

4) To continue feeding this many people, using GMO crops to help adapt to climate change and the other cool things like fortified rice will be helpful.

3) all the telescopes, all the rovers, all the capsules

2) especially now with Cas9 and AI helping

1) when I am old and approaching senility, a car that can drive me will surely help. A computer can’t get drunk, tired, or distracted.

Tech that I am excited about 🧪

1) self driving cars
2) gene therapy
3) anything that is shot into space for the purpose of expanding knowledge and exploration
4) GMO’s

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I Do love a good snow storm.

Yuck #mnwx

Coworkers were kind enough to share some with me once when they were breaking fast. Good served as is. Hot sauce always good. I bet some ranch dressing would also be good.

Rain/sleet mix now

I woke up to some thunder ⛈️

“Night of the Long Nails” 💅

I think I had a conversation with a bot.

This will be fun to watch on satellite. Perfectly happy to be missing the snow coming to the north.

I see a lot of truth in this. 😝

A commercial for Jesus.

I hate when organic is the only choice.

I think people have always been less able to compromise if a belief is part of the group identity

Delivering pizzas I found that the nicer the house, the worse the tip. It was by neighborhood. Working class tipped better regardless of race.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Spent all day searching for an honest answer and a little embarrassed to say this is what I landed on.

Mr Robinson’s take is spot on in my view. Confirming what I believe to be true. This is of course a strong bias.