They should invent a cantaloupe that doesn't hatch into a tiny dragon who demands that you make your furniture equivalently tiny in the name of what he claims is equity

fifteen years later, one specific puzzle from the 2011 mit mystery hunt is still lodged in my brain and makes me notice when phrases have a lot of alphabetically consecutive letters, like how "quipster" has pqrstu so i'm especially excited for kumail nanjiani (ijklmn) on taskmaster

surely my housemates have to revoke my whiteboard privileges at some point, right

made it to another one

great news everyone, I went back to the antique store to buy the cookbook and the directions for opening an egg from page 34 are even more unhinged than I could have imagined

45x45 Connections: an appropriately deranged game to end 2025 https://thomaswc.com/2025.html

i went ahead and checked national vinegar day is november 1st national baking soda day is december 30th that's nearly two months apart so that should be fine

Important Job Descriptions Librarian: someone who works in a library Unitarian: someone who works in a unit Barbarian: someone who works in two (2) bars Vegetarian: someone who works in a vegetable

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

when personnel must enter the container of tiny tim, who did NOT die, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. at all times, 2 persons must maintain direct eye contact with tiny tim, who did NOT die, until all personnel have vacated and relocked the container

i'm not sure what it says about me that such a high number of my youtube recommendations feel the need to include the phrase "i promise this is interesting" in the thumbnail

this is all part of my fun new trivia game, "is it a mr. beast challenge or a divine punishment from greek myth"

cows cannot fly but then again, flies cannot cow so i guess it is kind of a standoff situation in that regard

as part of my job some days, i need to write an email to everyone working that shift outlining which games have booked, what maintenance needs doing, etc. we like to keep it fun by opening with whatever real-life weird holiday it is so bless you, icelandic yule lads, for two weeks of freebies

My entry into Confounding Calendar 2025 is an all-new Deductopia room! gwenckatz.itch.io/deductopia-s...

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

one of my friends just proposed to his partner with the coolest freaking jigsaw puzzle i have ever seen

my brain autocompletes this with bdg screaming "and i do not CARE if there is a difference"

if they didn't want this to happen, they picked the worst possible name

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

the page for Ķ, the latvian letter, has maybe my favorite disambiguation on all of wikipedia

one missed opportunity with the movie "there will be blood" is that the closing credits music should have been maroon 5 doing "she will be loved" but with the title line changed to "there will be blood" it would have been terrible and not fit the movie at all, but they still should have done it

we're doing hot thanksgiving food takes? okay it's almost all nasty i'll take the rolls i guess and some kinds of mashed potatoes are okay but it really depends

puzzle boat turned twenty this year i still remember how obsessed i was when the first one dropped out of nowhere, doing the puzzles on my breaks at my boring grocery store job the twelfth one's running now, and i've been a playtester for... what, eight years now? time is weird life is weird

i like watching people go from not knowing things to knowing things, and i don't have the people skills for teaching

reading the wikipedia article on teknonymy, the practice of being referred to by reference to your eldest child, like the arabic "abu ___" or the korean "___ eomma" i was not prepared for the "see also" section to contain a link to the song "stacy's mom"

did the thing where you put in 1, 2, 3, etc. into a column in google sheets and drag down to autocomplete a bunch more it gave a bunch of decimal approximations of the numbers i thought google had inserted some new ai thing that failed at the simplest possible task turns out i'd skipped a number

puzzle constructors, please update your wordlists accordingly

this is some zelda trading quest nonsense he's gonna want a xylophone, and the only way to get one is by offering a jar of spices to a fitness instructor who's hanging out in a town you can't even get to until after dungeon six a narwhal has the spices

someone on youtube has spent the past year regularly uploading quick little sketches made by modding celeste i kind of love them, the comedic timing is absolutely perfect, especially the abrupt endings here's one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1S3...

i like it when the things that bad people want to happen do not happen i think it is neat

happy 60th birthday to st. louis's iconic gateway arch The Gateway Arch: I'm Not Sure Why We Did That But Okay™

you know it's going to be a good taskmaster episode when the podcast about it is noticeably longer than the episode itself

amazing but true: the pyramids were built closer to the 80s than to the present day

time to queue up the bit about being an astronaut who brought their wallet

on the one hand, i think it would be incredible if we finally made it into the world series on the other, things famously did not go well the last time a mariner defeated a bird

they should make a new medal that you can only get by finding errors in the work of abel prize winners call it the cain prize

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

i hope everyone has a lovely spreadsheet day may you appreciate the marvel and convenience of spreadsheets, this and every -7 sorry, i meant 0.5882352941176470 ugh where's the setting, how do i turn this off

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

well, it's a big day for ol' projectyl i finally realized the "stat" in the word "statue" is because they're static animatronics should be called dynamues

books should teleport you they should have a little window in the first page that shows a preview video swooping through the world described within except for some of them, which contain trapped evildoers

At the bookstore.

frogs are in their redemption arc and i am here for it i thought for sure the pepe years would ruin their image for a lot longer

i am seldom as invested in taskmaster as i am this season ania keeps bringing in amazing prizes and greg keeps giving them one point when there's always lower-quality and/or less relevant prizes on offer and it is *maddening* hashtag justiceforania, are hashtags still a thing, were they ever a thing