Look at what I found in my used book purchase today! Both book and boarding pass are from 1983. I am guessing J. Pierce bought it at the airport on his way home to the US from Italy.

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Oh come on! And it would have been a pangram to boot!

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

I guess id be Lloyd Vehicle Emissions Test. Unless I use my grandfather’s nickname. Then it would be Barney Vehicle Emissions Test.

In case you are interested in how bees know things.

Gerhard Richter’s Reader. It’s among the most stunning photorealistic paintings I have ever seen. I think of it often.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Sports have a unique ability to highlight age for viewers. But I’ll add, as somebody who is 45 and not just over 35, I’ve found the emphasis wanes as time goes on.

“One day I’ll be able to catch the squirrel.”

My favorite thing about the release of Independence Day was that it was WIDELY advertised that it would be released on July 4 because… obviously. But then they “unexpectedly” announced a July 2 release with short notice. That way people could “believe” the story was about the current moment.

No disrespect intended to the author, but "Everyone should submit to voluntary keylogging surveillanceware on the blockchain to prove they're human" is not exactly the digital future I was hoping for in 1994.

Has this been done

I have forever thought of John Cusack as older than me (he is), but I saw this photo and thought, “wow you’re young!” Indeed, he was roughly a decade younger than I am now.

One nice thing about being older than all the sports stars is that I now get to pretend that the reason I’m not as good is solely because I’m too old.

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Y’all! Another Xennial marker just dropped!

Setting aside the absurd premise of this op-ed, I love that the WSJ social copy writer felt the need to hedge with "not that has been reported" "No one's reported that one of the most famous popstars in the world dated a man who at the time was a random oyster farmer from Maine, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE"

I continue to believe that the use of shaving cream is among the greatest innovations in soccer (football).

A strange thing is happening. I co-authored a computer science paper titled “Evidence Tampering and Chain of Custody in Layered Attestations” and it’s getting citations in *several* law articles in or about Eastern Europe. Clearly the title sounds relevant, but I assure you it’s not relevant.

It is with no humility whatsoever that I claim credit for naming my friend @sethrfarber.bsky.social's "dad band" Age Against the Machine www.instagram.com/p/DZIblxPgR4_/

Paper accepted to a journal today (finally). A long time coming for this one!

Moral compass implies the existence of a moral magnetic field that can be disrupted by geo-magneto-moralistic storms and I believe I have finally diagnosed the ills of contemporary society.

Slightly diminish a book. Armed Conflict and Ceasefire

There was a Winter Olympics game on floppy disk (the actually floppy ones) that required you to switch disks because it couldn’t all be stored on one disk. I think it was on a Commodore 64

Oh, hey there, Moon. 🌙

He posed! He usually looks away when I try to take his picture.

Add food to a movie title: Cloudy with a Chance of Spaghetti and Meatballs

If you started Dark Side of the Moon when Artemis went behind the moon it would finish just about when they emerged from behind the moon

This is so far from the point, but I had issues parsing this video due to weird perspective issues. Farther objects are usually smaller, but the man in the back is so much larger that he still appears *way* larger. I wondered if it was doctored because of that.

A small thread of flight routes deviating from the proposed/predicted path due to geopolitics.

The only thing worse than ICE doing nothing at airports would be ICE doing something at airports.

Watch for telekinesis

Pi is inherently linked with circles and periodic phenomena. Out calendar is also periodic; we can imagine it as a circle beginning Jan. 1. As pi represents half of a circle’s circumference (half way around the circle) Pi Day is properly celebrated half way thru the year (July 2). That is all. 🧮

I never would have thought I might confuse Van Gogh and Klimt. But I thought this was early Van Gogh, when it is Gustav Klimt.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

“Let them eat steak!”

I sometimes post funny math words that aren’t in the NY Times Spelling Bee, but this seems like an actual oversight.

The day wanes Oil on Cradled Panel. 12" X 18". #art #painting #artist #oilpainting #oilonpanel #lamp #sunset #interior

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

My daughter’s oil painting…I love the colors 😍 #oilpainting #painting #art

The spins in big air events are getting to the point where counting the degrees is useless. Can’t we just agree to talk in terms of number of whole rotations and remaining parts thereof?

Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, finally in an movie together! Just what the people have been asking for!

I'd bet money that someone at DHS has referred to this tactic unironically as a "Good Samaritan trap."

Want to make it seem like you didn't use AI to write? This AI company can "help" you with that! (h/t @jennysaul.bsky.social)

viva los sólidos de revolución

My favorite part of skeleton in the Olympics is that it always has you asking the question, “Was he one of the members of Daft Punk?”

Two things can be true. That's the first one. You're gonna want to choose the second wisely. Actually, hold up. Now up to thr... aww dammit.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: You can make chocolate chip cookie dough, portion it out onto baking sheets, freeze it, and transfer the raw cookies to a container. Then bake them a few at a time, from frozen — warm homemade cookies in twenty minutes or so, whenever you want.