H. Austin Whitver

a woman with a shaved head is saying it 's not about you Alt: Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One from the Doctor Strange film (2016), saying “It’s not about you.”

As a neurospicy dude with a tendency to try to empathize / engage via related personal anecdote, I find myself whispering this manta to myself anytime I think about replying to a post. Sometimes it even works.

I will say this for Matt Smith: he certainly has the swagger of an actually handsome man.

Rewatching Strange New Worlds 1.6 (“The Ones Who Warp Away From Omelas”). Honestly, the Federation’s first move should have been offering membership to Prospect 7.

Owen's Science teacher has been teaching 6th grade for 23 years. The way I audibly gasped.

My god that looks incredible.

Honest question. The biggest roadblock I see (beyond his health, and even then they might Weekend and Bernie him) is Obama, right? I know they may try to do some kind of "consecutive term" thing but that feels iffy. I feel Obama would beat him past all doubt and he FEARS that more than anything.

This was always the great comfort for dropping the kiddo at daycare / kindergarten. It might be hard for ME, but HE was clearly fine with it.

One of my favorite bits of autism is the way friendships do not fade even the slightest over time / disuse. A friend visited for the first time in years this weekend, and we picked up exactly where we left off last time.

Got to the mercado an hour later than normal as guests just arrived and there are no more tamales. Truly an inauspicious start to the weekend.

I went into the wrong line of work. I could have been a scammer; it seems like a real growth industry. Our Northport city council is getting scammed as we speak for an 80 acre "Lagoon Resort" in the middle of fucking nowhere from "developers" who never finish anything and just walk with the bag.

Every single spoke (West End, 21st, 65, Nolensville, etc) and ring (40, 440, Woodmont / Briley, etc) becomes undrivable at multiple points every day. Everyone downvotes bus lanes, widening at this point does no good, and digging is too expensive. Bring in an El with park and rides on the spokes.

I agree with 99% of what you are saying, but the density of downtown Nashville has grown insanely, largely driven by young folks with money. A straight shot train would actually be really helpful. But like you say, this one will never be built. What Nashville really needs is an El system.

Of all Starfleet captains? John Harriman of the Enterprise B. Of main series captains (and having never watched Enterprise), I have to say it is probably Janeway (with Picard a close step behind) just because every few episodes they just do something weirdly out of character.

Setting aside the appalling racism and fetishization of wealth disparity from the OP (which, I grant, is a LOT to set aside), YES! Absolutely! Ethiopian food is absolutely that good. There are a million wonderful things about living in a country of immigrants, and the food is one!

I should also note that here, near the end of book two, I am finally getting to the first bits of (quite mild) romance. And that shit is HARD to write. I just want to look askance / incredulous at all y'all romance writers out there. You are all made of some very strong stuff.

At 85,809 this morning which means I managed just under 4k in the last two weeks. Considering the second half of summer was always going to be more complicated to carve out any time at all, I think that is a reasonable number.

There are these clever films now shot on soundstages with subpar effects that get released on streaming (Gunpowder Milkshake. Kate). In another era they would have gotten more money or would have a rewrite that cleaned off some unnecessary expensive bits and ended up tighter/better as a result.

Poster for the film Heads of State.

Watched this tonight. A lot of fun. Technical comments aside (the writers thought this was going to be an anime with no budget constraints?) I will give it an 8 out of 10. Knows what it is, has some fun clever jokes, and legit chemistry with the buddy pairing. BUT! 1/2.

Oh that fucking sucks. Every time I tell my students about interlibrary loan, they (correctly) react like it is absolute magic.

Not sure how once can forget that since that is like, what, 90% of their military playbook in the past 100 years?

Imagining Jonson spinning in his grave (like a top since he was supposedly buried standing).

Woodcut of Mary Frith smoking a pipe and holding a sword while giving a particularly intense stare right at the viewer.

Early Modern Peeps. Does anyone know of a good breakdown / discussion of the famous Mary Frith / Moll Cutpurse woodcut?

I remember it had a push your luck element, and this was what I felt the kiddo needed more experience with (tending to oscillate wildly between the extremes of "any risk is too much" and "all in all the time.")

I got that to play with the kid. It did not click (for either of us) the first time, but I feel it has promise. Thoughts?

Photo of a very sweaty bearded me at a roller rink with some solid glow paint in the background.

A boy in his natural habitat: roller skating to Hot to Go. (Picture taken from the sidelines for safety as I am not as agile as I once was).

I have heard this too! Why do they hate us and holdout?

Truly the only disappointment in an otherwise excellent episode. I get they wanted the shock value (and the boy band thing IS funny the first time), but it leaves such a perfect payoff to a longstanding bit of world building on the table.

Happy book birthday to MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS! Writing a second novel is a known boogeyman in the publishing world, but I can honestly say I had a lot of fun writing this book and I hope you have fun reading it.

At least that is every year. Mine pines for the Olympics.