Clarke Geagan

Patched up my shoes with purple duct tape, which my friends have collectively declared the sort of design choice that someone would make for an original character - so of course I've leaned into it and been doing a whole bit about how I even have unusual eyes, the real quintessential OC trait 🤣

I've just discovered HyRiver, and oh my god this is amazing, thank you hydrology nerds who came before me for getting so fed up with the same problems that you made a whole entire suite of python packages about it, this project would have been a nightmare otherwise

It's November, which means it's getting dark early enough now to initiate the daily ritual of 4 PM coffee and a pastry to remind myself it's not even that late yet, and I'm always a little surprised at how well it actually works

Fascinating to learn that I'm apparently"dad-coded" - I have no idea what to do with this information, but I sure do have it now I guess?

Dystopian fiction is NOT A HOW TO GUIDE.

One productive afternoon later, I've learned how to make cipher-cracking scripts in python all because I overdid wanting to solve one silly coded message, and honestly the fact that I now know how to wield the power of stats for a bunch of common cipher types is something I'm pretty stoked about

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

This is How You Lose the Time War has been an absolutely surreal read - definitely one of those books that's made me realize I need to go wander around outside for a couple hours and let the prose sink into into my synapses

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

Unexpected team building exercises for the friend group today at the apple orchard, where we decided if none of us could reach the apples we wanted, we were just going to have to take turns boosting each other up instead.

We've now mastered this art, and have so many apples from
it to boot.

Yeah this is a pretty handy resource

Why I love when the sunset coincides with my bike home:

Listening to the Epic musical soundtrack on repeat so much I'm pretty sure it's actually going to skew my Spotify Wrapped stats in a couple months

spent a chunk of my afternoon helping someone with data retrieval, and I'm so very salty that the education system can't be bothered to teach their STEM majors basic tools like wget commands - these shouldn't be things you have to stumble into learning from your weird interdisciplinary buddy

I think my feelings about the Knights of Guinevere pilot can best be summed up by the fact that after seeing it I spent ten minutes trying and failing to form cohesive sentences while also bouncing around excitedly

Whoever came up with needle threaders is a genius, I'm just getting into sewing and I think if I had to thread my needles without one I would go a little insane

email from potential advisor: "you certainly seem like a well-qualified student with the expertise and background to succeed here"
me: go on???
email: "unfortunately I currently don't have any funding"

and that's basically how almost every other email's gone, too :/ #gradsky #meteorology

people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat

Apparently, cobweb plots are "horrifying" and "math wizardry" and "inflicting cursed knowledge on [my] friends."

left my notebook at home today, and suddenly gripped by the urge to find any scrap of paper I can to jot things down on

Bonuses of helping my art friends with their physics homework:

1) I get to do physics :)

2) My friends get to learn physics :)

3) I get unexpected drawings as a thank you???

I think one of my favorite things ever about playing ttrpgs is sometimes you realize something, cackle like a dork for a solid minute, and then drop a nuke into the entire game with one line.

It's been almost 20 hours since doing this last night and I'm still riding the emotional high.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

TIL apparently at least one company will hire you if can tutor people in Minecraft??

Random guy in hallway, holding up a bleeding hand: "Hey, sorry, do you know if any of the classrooms around here have bandaids?"

Me: "Not sure, but I actually have some!"

Me: *proceeds to whip out a whole entire medkit from my backpack like a totally normal person*

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The curse of realizing I can just animate anything is that now I want to animate EVERYTHING

A couple weeks ago I offhandedly mentioned to some friends that most people follow the same set of protocols for who gets the front passenger seat in any given car ride, and now every time someone who heard this gets in a car, realizing they are in fact doing that apparently deals psychic damage

Two weeks after getting back from Maine, and I've FINALLY gotten around to photo collage stuff:

perhaps just a tiny bit smug about bypassing the giant traffic jam on my bike during my commute home today