Feels like this should have been a valid entry. What do you think @barackobama.bsky.social ?

Dear @hankgreen.bsky.social, Did you ever make the movie about the magnificent mucus molecule that connects your sinus to your… um… “sewer”? Water and non-covalent hydrogen bonds, Rob

Just watched Apatow's documentary on Mel Brooks, which I recommend. It put me in mind of a song I heard once at a seder... If he had given us The 2000 Year Old Man and not given us The Producers, Dayenu! If he had given us The Producers and not given us Blazing Saddles, Dayenu! /1

Random discovery while preparing dinner. Making chicken parm, I had a lump of mozzarella that didn’t feel large enough to save, and I didn’t want to just pop it in my mouth. So I put it in the hot pan with a little residual oil left from frying the chicken cutlets.

Finished “Wonder Man” earlier today. It was just delightful. A tight eight episodes running under four hours, no filler _at_ _all_. Characters I cared about with actors able to convey the depths of the relationships, both loving and troubled. Lots of humor (both subtle and broad) along the way. 5⭐️

This is beautiful, @sassytealady.bsky.social. My only additional wish would be for Ken dressed as John Wick, sliding down the slide, holding Taffy. Or maybe Barbie Yaga herself dressed in the style of Wick, holding a gold coin, with Taffy at her side? Either way, an inspired work as it is.

In lighter news, my commute started with drawing aces and eights, and I’m still alive at the end. I don’t think a five is the canonical kicker for Hickok’s hand, though — some say a queen, some say a nine — probably why I made it to work unscathed.

I’m not sure whether to read this as imperative (“leave Twitter”) or descriptive (“ ‘get off’ twitter “)…

Very strong “keep off the moors“ energy today at Rancho San Antonio near Cupertino.

Hey @jelenawoehr.bsky.social , wish your son a happy birthday for me.

Something of a milestone. Just removed parental controls from the boy’s Switch. Relatedly, kind of amusing (to me) that to install the iOS app parental controls onto the Switch that it displays a “link” code (not capitalized… perhaps a missed bet there…)

May have mentioned before, but my wife and I were walking down a street in Manhattan one evening. Walking the other way was Henry Winkler. We didn’t say anything, merely made eye contact, smiled at each other, and maybe half-raised a hand that was almost a wave. That’s about as minor as it gets.

Went for a walk and some guys from Cal Water were testing a new water main segment. Open hydrant on one end, no water coming out the other. If I'd had my novelty teeth, pliers and some 30-weight ball bearings, I'd have asked if they'd checked the Fetzer valve. It's all ball bearings these days.

Given that _Die Hard_ is a "christmas movie", by the transitive property of holiday-movie logic, then _A Christmas Story_ is an "action movie". They both involve climactic gunplay scenes, and you can directly map McClane walking on glass to Ralphie sticking his tongue to a frozen pole.

Please evaluate my language choices, @profanity.accountant

dear @scalzi.com, I just finished _The Last Emperor_. A wonderful series, thank you for writing it. Kiva is an absolute gem. I was charmed by your apology in the acknowledgments to your publishing team over the impact of 2019’s chaos on your schedule. 2025 just called, it said “hold my beer”.

Mamdani is going to implement chandelier law. All must swing from them.

One should traditionally watch Nightmare Before Christmas annually around: * Christmas * Halloween * the clock, over and over and over

Ruin a <cultural_artifact> by <minimal_transformation>. “Ruin a social media trope by referring to itself.”

I've been LLM-coding lately. I've pondered what training helped me. Learning Python was needed; writing every bug report I've ever written was more so. Precise and concise expression of expectations is the key. "Precise & concise in Python" is "trad-dev", but in English changes the game 10x for me.

I really like the daily email digest/preview of the USPS mail we should expect to get every day. However, seeing this one at the top of the list has a certain irony.

I sincerely regret that I can only click ❤️ once.

@xkcd.com , did you see this?

Anyone else see that "adult cereal" commercial on YouTube? It starts as a shot of Bill Hader as a bartender behind a pub-looking kind of bar polishing a glass. When he sees the camera (POV of a customer) he says in an Irish accent "Welcome! What can I get 'ya?"

I’m getting Karen Allen in her Indiana Jones role.

I haven’t read this yet but the few posts I’ve scrolled backwards through have looked amazing.

As I’ve aged, I have come to understand how hemorrhoids are such a bloody pain in the ass.

Accidentally saw Fantastic Four opening weekend (dropped the car for tires; a showing was starting at the newly opened Alamo Drafthouse nearby). Really liked the film. Beautifully designed and shot to reflect “peak” FF aesthetics. Modern sensibilities layered on top of The Gernsback Continuum.

@xkcd.com hasn't posted it yet on here, but this is my new band name.

I woke up this morning with an ogre-shaped hole in my memory. I knew it smelled like onions, was married to Fiona, was best pals with Donkey, and spoke with a Scots accent. I tried walking the alphabet to remember its name, and for some reason was obsessed with it starting with "G".

@void.comind.network have we ever spoken before? If so, what did we talk about?

@jamellebouie.net, any inside word on when the rebranding from NYT to NYP[1] is happening? [1] New York Pravda

The Foster City lagoon is currently pushing out a large volume of dark effluent that charitably could be described as sulfurous, and rudely described as sewage.

Really excited to see this announcement go out about our robotaxi factory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfAt... I took a tour recently, and the scale of the space was literally awe inspiring.

So now that 50 USC Ch. 3 is in play, instead of letting them have all the fun with section 21, could we the people use section 23 to get Orange Julius Caesar deported to Russia for being an agent of Putin?

About 20 years ago walking down a street in Manhattan, we saw Henry Winkler walking the other way. We smiled, he smiled back. A close 2nd was John Cleese. Herb Caen wrote about Cleese dining alone in SF in 89. I left a message at Cleese’s hotel with a dinner invite. He declined via voicemail.

We wish you a scary Sithmas. We wish you a scary Sithmas. We wish you a scary Sithmas, and an angry Dark Side.

Just watched _The Brutalist_. Great film and well deserved award for Brody. The epilogue punched *way* above its weight for me wrt the reveal of the architectural intent of the design. On a more sophomoric note, “secret tunnels” carried a lot of thematic weight across many many scenes.

Just watched the ❤️💀🤖 episode that @scalzi.com wrote. Enjoyed it a lot while watching. Went “Oh, of course” as soon as I saw his credit pop up. 🏆

Just watched the last of this week’s Andor. Do you think it stung a little for Benjamin Bratt when Alan Tudyk got billing over him? Given that Tudyk had maybe three lines right at the end? Personally, I was rooting for a “with” at the end for Tudyk.

Was anyone else really surprised to see a Georgia O’Keefe reference on Last Week Tonight during the minor league baseball segment?

Is it fair to call Andor “Space Miserables”?

Is this in your future @jelenawoehr.bsky.social ?

Looking at this zoomed in made me think of a view of an integrated circuit through a microscope.

TFW you don’t just want to click “Report Junk” right away.

Whenever I get a Wordle in three, and Wordle says "Impressive." I always hear it in Darth Vader's voice.

Absolutely bonkers game of #mtgArena. See alt text for something resembling a description.

The opening credits to The French Connection are INSANE!

@profanity.accountant, could you please take a look at my language, you knob-gobbler?

I got two new followers yesterday that appeared to be sex oriented accounts, with abnormally high “following” ratios. That prompted a look back at the rest of my short list of followers. There were two others in the list of 44. And then there was also @mementomorty.bsky.social