Will Truman

Throughput: Nuclear Moon Acting NASA Chief Duffy is putting the cart before the horse here. Several football fields in front of the horse, in fact.

Throughput: Nuclear Moon

I guarantee you that is not where I thought this story was going to end.

Further proof that not enough people watched TimeTrax: None of the AI models are named SELMA.

Open Mic for the Week of 8/11/25 On this day in 1973, DJ Cool Herc introduced the dual turntable technique at a house party

Open Mic for the Week of 8/11/25

Roger Clemens proposes bold rule change to get starters to pitch... The seven-time Cy Young Award winner gave a bold take.

They should absolutely do this.

Chantix works for smoking similar to how Semaglutide works for weight loss, except (at least arguably with much worse side effects, but there was almost no campaign against it on the basis that it was taking the easy way out.

My genius plan:

I need to use the bathroom but also need to call AT&T to possibly end up on hold.

Plan: Call AT&T, be put on hold, go to bathroom. That is almost certain to make sure that hold time ends right when I close the bathroom door.

Bob Boone was like straight out of central casting for an MLB manager and never had any success, while Aaron Boone looks to me like somebody who pretends to like sports to get along better with his coworkers.

She was sick the whole flight, but the woman was very patient with her.

And that's the story of when Mom was eight and she met Eleanor Roosevelt. /fin

Mom was getting plane-sick and the woman asked if she was okay. She nodded yes but continued to look sick. The women knew sick when she saw it and got a bag which Mom promptly vomited into. 2/

STORY OF THE DAY, from Mom:

When Mom was eight, she flew alone for the first time. Because of some family connection to the airlines she got to sit in front in First Class. There was an older woman sitting next to her. 1/

Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri The design for a 36 mile long spacecraft, called Chrysalis, includes libraries, tropical forests and structural manufacturing facilities, all supported by artificial gravity.

No, thank you.

White people: The American Indian longs to live in permanent stasis.

The first American Indian to see a gun: Time to get strapped, boys.

This Beautiful World of Ours Peer Pressure

This Beautiful World of Ours

Saturday Morning Gaming: Meat and Potatoes Tower Defense Gnomes is a simple and elegant tower defense game and the difference between level 15 and level 16 is bs.

Saturday Morning Gaming: Meat and Potatoes Tower Defense

They are good in sandwiches, I'll give you that.

Don't Ruffles have all that?

This way I know if someone steals my screenshot!

(Actually I accidentally rotated it a bit and couldn't figure out how to fix it.)

Lays are fine to dip but too weak to scoop.

I don't really know why Lays chips exist. Don't get me wrong, I'll eat them if they're there. But who looks at Lays, Ruffles, Pringles, Fritos, and Doritos and thinks "I want the bland flat ones?"

... wut

Can you bring it out of the Apple ecosystem? Run it on other MP3-playing apps? (I've never owned Apple products so I don't know how it works.)

I thought iTunes was MP3 downloads these days?

Middle-Aged African-American home nurses seem to be a rather conservative lot.

My uncle, a retired Episcopal priest, says that the worst, most degrading thing about Trump is how he licenses all of us, his haters every bit as much as his sycophants, to be our worst selves.

Kind of wish a lot of these people could have gotten their comeuppance without destroying it for the rest of us .

Cry Baby A problematic depiction of matriarchal microaggressions

Cry Baby

Major League Rugby Bullish About Rugby In U.S. Despite Clubs Folding MLR has lost three clubs in one month with others still searching for new revenue streams. Executives remain confident interest in rugby remains strong in the U.S.

Major League Rugby Bullish About Rugby In U.S. Despite Clubs Folding

Is this legit? Because it feels like it was cooked in a lab to confirm all my biases and priors.

Standing of the Clubs - No. 5 This overstates how easy the Cubs had it; they were in first place by only one game.

Standing of the Clubs – No. 5