Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author

Two panels from the anime "Sailor Moon". In the top panel, Mina is kneeling next to Chibi-Usa and telling her "Don't worry about it. Boys always tease the girls they like." In the bottom panel, Makoto says "Doubt it. They were just bullies."

Got kids going back to school? Teach them that a bully is a bully and not someone who "secretly likes them".

Politicians should never determine the direction of scientific research, especially not *medical* research.

Politicians should never determine the direction of scientific research, especially not *medical* research.

YouTube video by TandVTV The Muppet Show: Put the Lime in the Coconut

In case you don't get it, Kermit will help you out:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoO...

I will never be funnier than when someone told me they mixed club soda with limeade, and I said "Now, let me get this straight: You put the limeade in the club soda, you drank them both up?"

Gone In GIF Alt: Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds" telling Christopher Eccleston "I'm a little tired, I'm a little wired, and I think I deserve a little appreciation."

Ooh, and Christopher Eccleston was the villain in "Gone in 60 Seconds", the best Fast & Furious movie.

YouTube video by Trigon's Trailers Star Wars Described by a Non Fan

Peter Capaldi was definitely the villain of "The Thick of It", even though he was the main character. Language warning:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-p...

YouTube video by MegaRock64 Listerine Tarzan commercial

Although this one gets points for the soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAs...

YouTube video by TheVideoLover3 Listerine Commercial: Knight (1991)

There has never been a more awesome mouthwash commercial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQY...

Aren't they using those terms to avoid getting their videos pulled? That's why YouTubers do it, anyway.

DNF?

...city) susceptible to sinking? What would some characteristics of this region be? What would it look like, especially where the river goes underground and reemerges? (Geography is #worldbuilding.)

As the river gets closer to the rocky center, it goes underground, and then reemerges farther to the southeast. Can rivers do that? And can it still be feeding the forest if it's underground, maybe branching out under the forest? And wouldn't that make the ground beneath the trees (and the...

...slightly higher altitude than the surrounding wooded areas. A medieval-style city is built in one of the sparsest parts of the forest, stone walls and all. A river runs through the forest sort of diagonally, starting in the northwestern part, fed by runoff from northern mountainous regions...

Help me out, #GeographySky.

So, I'm building a fantasy world, and I want to know how realistic what I'm describing is. (Please don't say "Anything's possible with magic.") In one region, there's a big forest, roughly divided into "north" and "south" parts by some rocky ground that's at a...

Confession time: I still, some times, type "conscious" when I mean "conscience". At least I never misspell either of them.

YouTube video by cassandra sechler Michael Keaton as Batman "You wanna get nuts?!"

Not lying, today is apparently National Grab Some Nuts Day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NriO...

Being tired is not a reason to quit; it's a reason to rest. - Stephen Mark Monteith

One of Barnes & Noble's cool tote bags! This one is green, with the words "A BAG of BOOKS" written on it, with a brown information tag attached to the handle.

I was at Barnes & Noble earlier today and I got one of these cool tote bags! Which is great because I have, like, so much stuff I need to tote! Why, just this morning, you know, I was toting something, only it wasn't *in* anything, so no matter how I tried to tote it, it fell all over the place!

I won't be using #PayPal in the future, if this is how they're going to do business. It's time for everyone who does to find alternatives, because if this is their policy, then literally no one is "safe" using them (nor is your money).

The West Wing is to politics what Star Trek is to science; not accurate, but aspirational. It's no coincidence that they're two of my favorite franchises.

And I'm just over four months older. We were both born, and they said "Damn! The world just got infinitely more awesome and we gotta do something to catch up!"

a man in a space suit is standing on the moon in front of a mtv logo . Alt: a man in a space suit is standing on the moon in front of a mtv logo .

MTV was born today in 1981

The cage door opens.
I can finally fly free.
Time for some #mischief.

#vss365 #prompt #poetry #haiku

Don't play the game. They're not just trying to shift the blame, they're trying to shift our focus. They know the people complaining aren't going to complain to five or six different organizations who *might* be in control. Keep the pressure on them and make *them* complain to the people above them.

Don't play the game. They're not just trying to shift the blame, they're trying to shift our focus. They know the people complaining aren't going to complain to five or six different organizations who *might* be in control. Keep the pressure on them and make *them* complain to the people above them.

a red background with mario and the words it 's me mario on it Alt: Video game character Mario jumps into frame while white text appears on a red background saying "IT'S ME, MARIO!"

I will never be funnier than the time I texted a friend, she texted back "New phone, who dis", and I replied, "IT'SA ME, MARIO!"

I trust poets to tell me when things are bad *before* the news does.

YouTube video by turdburglar27 Monkey-ed Movie: Braveheart

What do you think? Truer to history than what we got in the movie?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA7i...

Correct. It's a *symptom* of the problem. The problem is people who just want to own businesses, not pay workers. A.I. is the latest, most virulent symptom of that problem. Reject it, and any company that embraces it, or it'll kill jobs forever.