Today was a great day for "I should email them. They won't yell at me". I got a clarification that new members need to attend rehearsals. I got a room changed despite the reservations desk saying they can't do it. Just a a win for pushing down my social anxiety.

Another sign I'm getting old. My teeth are close together so Glide floss was a godsend. Last year, Glide was a completely different product. It snags and grips, and tears instead of glides through. Turns out, old Glide had PFAS so they changed it. I'm going to complain bitterly about it forever.

I'm cleaning up my cable basket. Turns out cables take up 90% less space when coiled. Inventory 4 co-ax 1 USB to two chonky ports (In and Out) from Turtle Beach. No clue what this is for. 1 optical audio 2 Serial 2 DVI 2 AV 2 Cat5 3 power 2 USB - mini-USB 3 chargers for ancient cell phones

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I loved this episode.

Me waking from my nap: I just discovered something amazing! The 8 Bridgerton kids are named in alphabetical order! Anthony Benedict Colin Daphne Eloise Francesca G... eorge (it's Gregory 😅) Hyacinth I'm sure other people figured it out, but I feel pretty smart noticing it.

You're not crazy, it really has been a rollercoaster 🎢

Only got accepted to the local state university. Met my future wife there, stayed in the area. I joke that I've lived my life in a 25 mile radius, but I wouldn't change it for the world.

I had a brief stint as a notary public, which is only slightly more professional than this. I had to get my state rep (who I never met) to vouch for me. Then some company cold-mailed me a kit to buy (little notebook to write down things, fancy embosser) Then I could notarize.

I won on "isthmus" (oh hey, I still got it). I also remember winning my school's Geography Bee on which way hurricanes rotate.

Dear Stephen Colbert, You may be no fan of dictionaries or reference books, but we're fans of yours. ❤️ -The Wordinistas at Merriam-Webster

I panic bought tickets mid March. I just checked and one leg of my trip is $55 per ticket LESS than it was when I bought.

My wife pronounces sorcerer as sauce-er and it's adorable.

What is the mathematics of word of mouth? My latest book THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS seems to be having exceptionally good word of mouth, so I found myself wondering...what does "good word of mouth" mean? You know. Mathematically.

Roundball Rock just hits different. It brings back memories about sitting on the carpet of my piano teacher's house, watching Jordan in the Finals.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Yes, calling a liquid "gas" used to bug me no end. Then I discovered that it ought actually to be "caz," not "gas." It's based on a trade name. A thread... 1/6

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

If I had a nickel for every time Mina Kimes was responsible for winning a million dollars for charity on a TV game show, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

As far as I can tell, my alma mater doesn't have a ceremonial mace. <My alma mater> + mace led to a website about campus restrictions on weapons.

If you see this, post a STAR TREK

Slightly increase a band 10,001 Maniacs First to Twelve

“Effed it, lads”

This sounds like it needs to have both been a ubiquitous song and also not a good song, so it hasn't persisted past the initial popularity. We nominate Like a G6 by Far East Movement.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

It's maddening that our elections are state-run, so we have shirtshows like these ones, while my walk to my polling station is as far as it takes to get to the mailbox. I'm never voting in-person again.

This is both amazing and if I tried to replicate it, I'd lose an eye.

She is very lonely

Jet Li, Asian dad confirmed.

Still feel kinds of weird that my freshmen kid is taking an AP test. I had 6 AP tests and that felt like a lot: AP Chem AP Calc AP English AP Psych AP US History AP Computer Science Although, I would have destroyed AP US Government except it didn't exist yet.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only - Avatar: the Last Airbender Arcane Andor Jeopardy! The Good Place Parks and Rec Wonderfalls Star Trek: DS9 Babylon 5 Chernobyl The Expanse Futurama Batman: the Animated Series Mythbusters Plur1bus (tbd)

Classical music has been losing money for people for 500 years. It's not a business. -Mozart in the Jungle

Me in 1991, watching “Darmok”: Communicating by allusion and literary reference? Ridiculous. Wouldn’t work. Me 35 years later: [communicates 50% by meme]

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀

Logging in on time for the annual reference.

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Already seeing the ripple effects out here. County built a brand new high school building, but realized enrollment too low to open as a new high school, so are moving an existing high school into the facility. Next will be elementary / middle school closures. Reminiscent of the 80s baby bust.

Follow-up. Freeze watch tonight, heat back on. This weekend back to the 80s... 🪀

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Nice to hear you say that because like my whole theory recently is that AI is moving coding from a writing exercise to an editing exercise.

I have bought the wrong salt before. Turns out Kosher salt is different than regular salt. (I believe my wife wanted an iodine free salt for pickling)

Gave up and turned on the AC yesterday (high was 90 and we can't open the windows, because the son has really bad allergies). And... are we going to have to turn on the heat again on Monday because it's going to be 50?!

a+++ pedantic footnote

Finally took the EV for a road trip to NYC, which is about a 250-ish mile drive. We have an older EV with roughly 120 mile range at 80%. Had 3 stops each way for 10 min. Wasn't bad at all, with a newer EV with 200 mi range, each charging stop would be roughly around when you'd want to break anyway.