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Andy Grimm

@a13m.bsky.social

Dad, runner, Scrabble & card game enthusiast, UU, Rotarian, alcohol-free since 2020. Proud supporter of my local Food Bank, Meals on Wheels, Habitat for Humanity, and other such causes. VP of Engineering (Platform/Ops) @ Pendo

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Just how many party balloons were there? 99, perhaps?

14.02.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@petersagal.bsky.social had good coverage of this important topic on WWDTM last weekend

06.02.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

23.12.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 238

here's my 2026 bingo card

22.12.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 577    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 5

I knew I couldn't have been the first to think of this one.

17.11.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me of social media posts where they scramble all the letters in words or leave out all the vowels to show that your brain can still read the corrupted text... which is true for good readers, but is likely something you develop _after_ you have the fundamentals. 3-cueing seems similar.

12.11.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

QotD: "Wealth is like manure: spread it, and it makes everything grow; pile it up, and it stinks." - Djaffar Shalchi

23.08.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good thing they made trades for multiple relievers at the deadline. πŸ™„

16.08.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All these years it never occurred to me that that funny looking arrow was supposed to be a paper airplane. I guess it makes sense. πŸ˜…

17.05.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did they run a whole meet during the banquet?

16.05.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Someday I Suppose
YouTube video by MightyMightyBossVEVO The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Someday I Suppose

This was the first ska song I loved, and I recently got my 12-year-old listening to it. youtu.be/gmOmAuhAQbE?...

10.05.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
One Hit Wonderful

Reel Big Fish still makes me happy. They deserved more than fifteen minutes of fame, but I love that they were self aware enough to write this one: g.co/kgs/ZyyHtfL

10.05.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really enjoyed the Netflix Conan O'Brien special. The comedy was good, but his acceptance speech near the end was excellent.

09.05.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Betty White as Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s music video for Weapon of Choice.

Betty White as Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim’s music video for Weapon of Choice.

betty white in music videos: thread

08.05.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 4

Barn doors are bad, but I think the La Quinta hotels with saloon doors on the bathroom are worse.

08.05.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As I understand it, the evolution went something like Margaret->Margie->Maggie->Mag->Meg->Peg

Not so different from Robert to Bob or William to Bill.

02.05.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That makes sense. Those areas would tend to be more cosmopolitan and left-leaning than, say, Fort Myers or Daytona Beach. (Not that I think you'd have had a bad time in those places). I think the caricatures these days are probably from places like The Villages, which is like an alternate universe.

27.04.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting observations! Thanks for sharing. Of course, the US is a large country, and different regions, as well as different socioeconomic classes within regions, have entirely different ethos. The urban/rural divide is significant as well. I'm curious where you spent your time here.

27.04.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In case you're looking around for your next boycott...

23.04.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This just triggered a song lyric in my head that I'll bet you remember:

...and that's how I got to go to the prom with Geena Davis. But you probably already read about that in People...

07.04.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel old and out of touch today. I took my son to see Minecraft, not realizing that there was a "trend" of people ruining the movie with constant screaming, throwing popcorn buckets, riding on each other's shoulders, etc. I gave up when I got showered with soda about 75 minutes in. 😞

07.04.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Penguin flying off an iceberg

Penguin flying off an iceberg

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

04.04.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2819    πŸ” 522    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 41
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'They belong here': In defiance of Trump, Guster shares Kennedy Center stage with canceled children's musical Guster shared the Kennedy Center stage with the cast of kid's musical "Finn" after its national tour was canceled by Donald Trump's board.

The country needs more of this. www.boston.com/culture/musi...

03.04.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Situation: An Attempted Regime Change The plate tectonics of the current legal and political fights.

Outstanding 40K foot view on where we are, from @benjaminwittes.bsky.social. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

29.03.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
The ruined Ploutonion (temple to Pluto) at Hierapolis.

The ruined Ploutonion (temple to Pluto) at Hierapolis.

One of the world’s most chilling ruins is the Ploutonion at Hierapolis, otherwise known as β€œthe Gate to Hell”.

Here crowds once watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.

26.03.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1250    πŸ” 378    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 76

Coincidentally, that is the approximate length of the song "Tweezer" by Phish.

23.03.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Essay | American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage Major demographic shifts have put men and women on divergent paths. That’s left more women resigned to being single.

Despite the title, this article is not about marriage; it's about women more generally deciding that in the current culture war, they can do without men and be better off. It reminds me of Lysistrata, except that our modern war is over women's own rights. Gift link: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

23.03.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I volunteered at Food Bank CENC yesterday, and boy does that place always have weird projects to be done. Saturday's mission was to sort through and bundle 12,000 Capri Sun pouches, discarding leaky ones, cleaning the sticky mess off of the good ones, and making sure they all had straws attached.

23.03.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, this is a very cool project. Nice work!

20.03.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0