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Yes excellent sub plot...

Well spotted!

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

It's a cracker tonight

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Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

St John x LRB has honestly made my Autumn

Third time lucky...

I've been there and I still didn't get it til the last guess! Annoying.

That's beautiful. A true Labour of love.

recipe for pasta with 40 cloves of garlic

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

Well this is excellent news!

An amazing day! Really wonderful news.

I was afraid of that and am regretting my decision to get rid of my TV...

How do you actually watch Dmax though? Is it possible if you only have internet?

There seems to be some meltdown happening with Parcelforce just now.

The question is where is the tipping point where the chocolate biscuit transforms into a bar of chocolate with biscuit.

I think this has been the most wonderful of all your trips. A worthy note to end on before your hiatus. Good luck with the new arrival when they come.

100%

One for the ages. And the Paternain third was brilliant.

I am at least resisting staying up overnight. So far...

It's been brilliant so far. I fear all my plans for the week will need to be condensed into the afternoon hours so I can watch it all.

Pretty handy on the track as well. Has been a truly excellent day two of the athletics.

I met @evandunfee.bsky.social on the metro during the Paris Olympics last year, he was very nice despite being accosted by random athletics fans. Thrilled to see him win today - it was emotional.

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On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision

This is Jude. He had a long day and just wants to relax with his tunes. Which he can notably turn on all by himself. 13/10 (TT: heyjudethebeagle)

This is a fascinating nugget of general knowledge. Ideal fodder for a future pub quiz.

In Memoriam / | brodskyquartet

What a gift this is, from the Brodskys to us. Available until September 9th. Thanks so much for the heads-up on Shosto's deathday, @leerandall.bsky.social

www.brodskyquartet.co.uk/memoriam

Queuing for Jaws, Halifax, 1976, photo by Martin Parr.