Scott McKuen

Accidentally broke LinkedIn's Crossclimb puzzle ("change one letter at a time to form a chain of words" game). Final goal words = "synonym for agreement". Lead-in words were "pack" and "dear" - so real answer is "pact" and "deal". I tried "pace" (Latin-derived) and "hear" (like "Hear hear!").

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Like a cartel?

Hot take: "Interstellar" is "A Wrinkle in Time" from the father's perspective, but instead of a malevolent Evil, there's just the cruelty of an indifferent universe. No Mrs Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, no IT, no Charles Wallace - just Meg/Murph and her Dad.

Superman Vol 1 330 "The Master Mesmerizer of Metropolis!": Superman super-hypnotizes all of Metropolis to keep its citizens from falling under the control of the Spellbinder. Superman #330 is an issue of the series Supe...

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Also, modern university statistics departments were born from state and land-grant schools needing to manage all the crop data, because agriculture is *complicated*.

How is this issue “unclear”, exactly?The President doesn’t appoint the board or the leadership or do anything else! The Chief Justice is the nominal head of the governing body, and the Vice President is one among equals there. What is the reporter trying to communicate by “unclear”?

I love how he’s obviously that friend who only shows up to about half the sessions.

Especially as claw marks

Is anyone working on de Rham?

Gail force wind-up

Dent: it’s Rent but with techbrohemians, and Benny is the hero.

Anglos In America

DOGEy and Musk

A Crummy Thing Happened on the Way to the Orbit

It’s just a terrible revival of Urinetown.

This morning my child used the phrase "value over replacement father", as in not-sure-how-much-VORF-she's-getting.

Stay strong!

Singapore and Quito don't agree on the order of events that happen less than 39 ns apart.

It’s doomed to alternate: odd number generations get the shaft - Lost, Silent, X, Z, Beta; even number generations get to be Greatest, Boomer, Millennials, Alpha.

Our two great heroes of performative befuddlement brought low by the actually clueless.

I knew a kid who got himself to school each day by dumping two heaping spoons of coffee grounds and some hot water into a styrofoam cup.

Ravin’?

Look, I’m as onboard for the Ea-nasir boycott as anyone but my neighbors walls are running low on wire and they’re looking at me funny….

Anyone remember “Special Bulletin”? Nuclear terrorism movie in the form of a fake news broadcast.

Did you also “learn” (as I did) that the cotton gin was a great antislavery invention because Agricultural Productivity? Or was that just an Iowa thing?

My sister maxed out happily at 11.

He has a golf course about a mile west of the big landslide problem in Rancho Palos Verdes.

Exploring Shor's Algorithm, Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Description** Shor's algorithm is a quantum algorithm for integer factorization, discovered by Peter Shor in 1994. Often considered the "killer app" of quantum computing,

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Canonically it’s just two Turtledoves.

Not an item but start keeping a list of little fixups that are needed, like doorknobs or outlet plates, that filter that isn’t quite wedged into place right, the sticky gate latch. You’ll notice them all in the first week, then promptly forget them when you acclimate. Ask me how I know….

Does anyone else remember “Trump the Fragrance“?