Dan of Toasters

James Watson, credited as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA has recently died.

Maybe now, Rosalind Franklin can rest in peace.

Not only have the two longest federal government shutdowns been under his watch, but the federal government has been shut down longer under his watch than under all other presidents combined... so that's fun... 😑

For all the fuss they made over a private email server all those years ago, they sure do seem to be making a habit of communicating using non-government services...

Lake Michigan is located entirely within the United States... In no way could the shoreline in Illinois be considered an international border...

Mr Johnson said "Look for yourself" so I did.

The language added by sec. 71109 of public law 119-21 is redundant - it was already necessary to prove legal status.

Repealing that section just removes *REDUNDANT LANGUAGE*

Lying Liars

I'm definitely a fan of self-hosting.. of course when something breaks, I'm the tech support guy that needs to resolve it...

I'm irritated about something. I found that the registration for a domain name related to the source of my irritation has been expired for a while so I registered it for myself. In DNS, I assigned it an IPv6 address in which the last 64 bits is the binary for the UTF-8 characters:

🖕🤬

Today's odd algorithmic recommendation from YouTube.

I'm sure that two weeks ago nobody could have known but it's interesting that this is described as post -mortem #1...

Sign on a fence reads "Please do not throw rocks at the T-Rex"

Me pretending to look terrified with a copper statue of a T-Rex behind me. The T-Rex appears to have pinecones in its mouth.

Do not.

We drove past these fascinating looking solar generation stations on our concert road trip at the beginning of August... and so I thought I'd take a look at them on Google Maps... that's when I came across this gem of a review

I'm not a sports guy but I still feel compelled to point out to anyone upset that the Vikings now have two male cheerleaders:

George W. Bush, Ronald Regan, and Dwight D. Eisenhower were all cheerleaders.

I've had to spend time in the dark room with the guys with guns standing over me as I wrote "I am a naughty naughty boy and will never do that again" for far less... 😑

When lobsters meet, before they grapple, they pee out of their faces at each other to assert dominance - a literal pissing contest.

Peeing on politicians probably couldn't hurt at this point.

I mean... the New York Times wouldn't lie to me, would they?!

Not about this!

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

I know everyone is still mourning Ozzy but I'm afraid I have more bad news...

Fortunately, we did not all go together when he went.... not yet anyway.

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

It's July 4th, y'all! 🎇🎆

or .. y'kno... INDEPENDENCE DAY

If you haven't read it recently or at all, give it a good read-through.. that declaration, I mean, and not just the first few sentences.

I think some of our leadership would do well to review it and some of our other founding documents.

self portrait of the top half of my head showing my extremely sparse eyebrows and a shiny new headband that'll serve to keep the sweat out of my eyes when I'm working on projects

I'm not a particularly sporty critter so it only just now occurred to me to get a headband to keep the sweat out of my eyes when I'm working on things...

Cafe latte with milk foam vaguely resembling a smiling face with a large head of hair.

Today's accidental latte art

"Maybe, Maybe not. You don't know! Shut up!" does not seem like the appropriate response to the question of bombing Iran...

A mannequin in Target has suffered a wardrobe malfunction with a pair of drawstring shorts having fallen to just above the knee...

Whoopsydoodle...

A rather.. uh.. phalic sample of iron pyrite on display in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum mineral collection.

This iron pyrite needs to calm down...

At the Spy Museum last week... Vladimir Poopin'

Weather radar image of the Washington DC area on the afternoon of Saturday, June 14.

I hate to rain on your parade... except I don't.

Obligatory Unicorn Selfie..

Mr. Motion Detector is happy to see me.

A miniature Jesus standing on a firehose cabinet below a no smoking sign at the airport.

Found him....

screen capture of a quiz question type post from YouTube asking the question: What is a diode?

screen capture of a quiz question type post from YouTube asking the question: What happens to a diode if operated beyond its maximum reverse voltage?

screen capture of a quiz question type post from YouTube asking the question: which type of special purpose diode is formed by a metal and semiconductor?

YouTube keeps feeding me quiz type posts about diodes on my suggestions feed...

diodes. over and over.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, it seems like your "alpha mindset" isn't letting you hear a thought outside your own head and you have therefore completely missed the point... And maybe this doesn't even affect you... but, y'kno... keep up the good fight all the same. 👌👍🍻😜

Now I'm getting sponsored posts for psilocybin chocolate on Facebook... I suppose that's better than the ads from Wish for cocaine...

I realize that us human critters have a tendency to filter our perception through the scope of our own experience, so I'm disappointed but not surprised.

"I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."