Upbeat Former Prof

Oh, but you who philosophize, disgrace
and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face
for now's the time for your tears

four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

in Chicago, we called this the work of the winter poop elves!

the end of that routine was bananas

Olympics pairs ice skating to Meat Loaf, i love this so much

(day 1 Olympics ads)

UFP: you know, the 1st person i dated used to enjoy referencing Deloitte and Touche as Toilet and Douche

spouse: ??! hush

(day N Olympics ads)

spouse: great. now *i* always read that as Toilet

Nebbishferatu

also
Lynn Conway 💻
Katharine Johnson 🚀

Grace Hopper 💻 (but 🪲would also work:)

A picture of Jacques Ellul with a quote taken from the International Jacques Ellul Society website. The quote reads, “When we become conscious of that which determines our life we attain the highest degree of freedom.”

Thinking about Jacques Ellul again for obvious reasons and this quote goes so hard

my posts go the way of actual combat in XCOM2

AQUAMAN: this is my best watercolor painting yet

[later, back in Atlantis]

AM: no no no noooooooo

Demon core experiment

roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do

what if after getting out of the hot tub, you did a cole plunge (jumping into a giant tub of coleslaw)

🤣😅😫

current count:
Mammalia 2
Passeriformes 1

call me what you will -- a naif, a dreamer, a starry-eyed idealist -- but i think that there *is* an ideal number of dead animals to find in your Valentine's day getaway beach house, and that number is zero.

definitely less than three.

this reminds me of The Amazing Race episode where Rex Ryan simply could not yodel

sold out theater (Kendall Square, Cambridge).

nobody stood up at the end.

nobody talked while the credits rolled. we all just sat there.

when the lights came on, everybody stood up and walked out in total silence.

opening night of Requiem for a Dream

yeah, *that* version

One of the all-time wildest conclusions of a 'Jeopardy' episode

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

this was spectacular. i actually jumped off the couch and yelled

this is amazing

You're breaking my heart, Jim!

Next thing you know, someone will be telling me that hackers don't look like Chris Hemsworth in Michael Mann's film Blackhat

"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

let's hear it for 2^N -1 backchannels

logging and telemetry?

more like

logging and tell 'em, a tree

then: grilled cheese and tomato soup

now: grilled cheese and V8 low sodium

great piece. thank you!

Peacock's interface to the Olympics is utterly atrocious