Dan Olson

I'm having a bad time with math this week.

Yeah, for some reason I was like “air go faster” and didn’t think about it but it’s literally the opposite by a lot. Not only would the earthquake arrive first, it would arrive hours earlier.

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

One correction: I fumbled the late-addition math and calculated VST and Twitch moderators at one day rather than one week, so just take their numbers and x8 (it's another ~$100k)

YouTube video by Folding Ideas What's the "Cost" of a Desert Bus?

All righty, we got the all clear this time.

Follow Dan as he explores the "cost" of a Desert Bus:

Is the speed of sound through the mantle and core fast enough for the earthquake to arrive before the wall of fire? 🤔

this is how I found out googling "Chicxulub" will summon a png of a meteor to fly across your screen

Actually, the "new star" thing is debated, since it depends on exact composition. Maybe it was visible for weeks before impact, maybe it was invisible until it was well inside the orbit of the moon, maybe somewhere in between, like only a couple days.

One day there's a new star in the sky. Then over the course of a couple months it gets brighter. Then it's bright enough to see during the day. Then one day you're looking up, and one second it's pretty bright and the next the world has ended and everything is on fire.

You get all these artistic depictions of the Chicxulub asteroid that have it as, like, this big glowing rock in the sky, like the moon from Majora's Mask, and "oh, what would that have been like!? Imagine the stress!"

But the reality is almost worse.

Everyone is vulnerable to believing that their expertise - writing, tech, engineering, philosophy, whatever - is The Most Important One that’s going to Fix Everything, but there’s something unique about gambling addicts saying “what if we tried gambling our way to the truth?”

Very funny how he tries to present “betting on the next head coach at Penn State” as a righteous force cutting through misinformation

Okay, so, I didn't watch a lot of SG-1, but I always wondered why Daniel's wife wasn't on the show, so I looked it up, and wow! Wow! Woooow! What... what a story line they gave her. Wow.

Wow.

I mean, he's both? He takes the guns away from the kids and everyone looks at him like "what'd you do that for?!"

The soldiers in Stargate are shockingly chill about a bunch of bronze age teenagers taking their guns.

When Snake Pliskin freaks out it's just because he's "unreasonably" traumatized by his kid dying playing with his sidearm.

Wild movie.

Nobody but the band knew how many more songs they were going to play. The show's already a half hour overtime, and it's already the second encore. Every song could be the last. And in that head space, Gord singing the final line "it's been a pleasure doing business with you" broke something in me.

August 20, 2016. Gord Downy's final concert. CBC shelved the Olympics to broadcast the entire thing commercial free. The band comes back out for encore number two.

Actually, I haven't been able to make it more than a few seconds into the song in almost a decade now. I've re-listened to the entire Tragically Hip discography in the last couple years. Every song but one.

Feels like a day for putting on Yer Favourites and just crafting away until I bawl by eyes out when Scared comes on deep in disc 2.

PAC had to go into pro wrestling after the bottom fell out on dockside bare knuckle boxing.

Marina’s going to give Mox a gift bag, but inside is just gonna be a Tap Out shirt and then Yuta’s gonna get him with the plastic bag. #aew

Hey Greg, how do you get “Swaggy Jason” out of your head? Put it in the comments if you’d like to join a coven with the express goal of deleting Swaggy Jason from your mind, the internet, and reality.

Oh I’m envious of how crisp that head shape is

The modern world is just pro wrestling and a gambling addiction standing on top of a mechanical Turk.

Crochet amigurumi of Hornet from Silksong, from a pattern by @Ami_amour (Instagram)

GARAMA!

pattern by Ami_amour (Instagram)

NOT ANYMORE!

YouTube video by DesertBusForHope DB2025 - Dan's tour of Miniature World from Kathleen

I had such a good time. What a week. m.youtube.com/watch?v=x-4f...

It’s been a lovely week, I have another half day before I head home.

If you go to Paggliacci’s in November you can skip the line if you choose the outdoor seats, and then they bring you blankets.

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