Jeff Davidson

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

He reminds me a little of Chris Davis, although I doubt that his O's career will be that horrific, or of Gary Sanchez, who thought power was all he needed. I don't see him lasting as long as someone like Adam Dunn, who could survive the decline into low averages because he walked a ton.

Please give if you can, and share widely whether you can give or you can't. RCCS focuses its outreach in the Jewish community, but they help patients of every background with things from helping pick the right doctor to covering costs to arranging needed transportation. They're truly lifesaving.

I think you could do a calendar of these shots and quotes.

I'm relieved you chose the right Scrooge.

[Pushes glasses up]: it's actually pronounced 'jifted'

Assuming you're talking about Paxton, do you think they'd vote for her over Cornyn?

Love you too Marty!

We'll all disagree on how much credit/blame she should get. Your view isn't unreasonable - it's just not mine.

doing research for a pitch to be the devil's advocate and it looks like bro always appears pro se wtf

Who called them ex-girlfriends and not yesterbaes.

That wasn't your question. I might give her credit for a year or two of experience, but it's not like she was the VP or ignored all of the traditional FL duties. By 2016 she was certainly a well-qualified candidate, but her time as FL adds very little to the more substantive parts of her resume.

No. I don't think it would have helped qualify Pat Nixon or Nancy Reagan - why would it qualify her?

Um

I heard Boston was trying to make a new law making playing leapfrog illegal.

I believe the term they used was "strictly proribbited."

The Reality of AI Animal Content – Sedgwick County Zoo If you spend any time on social media, you’ve probably seen them – bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or “rescued” wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to be…

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.

scz.org/blog/the-rea...

Hey, whether you did hundreds of artworks this year or one artwork this year, you are an artist, and you're doing your best. Be proud of whatever you created this year. Life ebbs and flows.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

They make less money now than they used to. Air travel was really, really expensive years ago and airlines weren't going out of business. I grew up near a decent sized airport. The biggest airlines there (TWA, Pan Am, etc.) are all gone now.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode- no Star Wars, Marvel, etc.

“Inoculation” training assumes misinformation behaves like a stable virus, but doesn’t. Narratives mutate, communities adapt, and many denialist groups treat the inoculation attempt itself as proof of manipulation. The model breaks once identity enters the picture.

Happy birthday! I hope the year to come is one of blessings and joy. We are blessed by your presence here.

Could you share a couple of them? The ones I've seen, when used draft or review contracts, or to draft legal briefs with citations and supporting reasoning, have been pretty poor.

This looks like something from the Fiend Folio.

Because Trump's a Boomer.

Historians will look at how far we've fallen, and come to the conclusion that it all began with the rise of Reality TV in the 1990s. Giving huge platforms to people with no real talent or expertise created a unique era – one that soon gave birth to a political movement based on idiocy and ignorance.

Also, Origen was all about allegorical interpretation.

A kitten on a chair holds another kitten by one leg as they dangle from the chair.

"Say it!"
"No!"
"Say it, Hans."
"My name's not Hans!"
"I WILL drop you."
“Fine, okay, you win!”
“I need to hear you say it.”
"Die Hard is a Christmas movie!"

This. I think I get what he's trying to say although he steadfastly refuses to say it, but Origen isn't responsive to your hypothetical.