why does the "please provide a phonetic pronunciation of your name" in the graduation ceremony registration scare me more than my actual dissertation?

me: has literally never been ice skating in my life me seeing the winter olympics: that (figure skating, speed skating, etc.) looks like something fun to try

i want to thank whichever nerd it was that introduced me to the portmanteau "jarlic" for jarred garlic

so glad that this doesn't appear to have been necessary tonight #p4a2026

not me explaining the jarrod advance notice rules in discord in terms of weather watches and warnings like jarrod is a tornado or a hailstorm or something #p4a2026

being a science nerd watching #p4a2026 is wanting to make the over strong p4atorade but boiling the solution so that more of it can dissolve because there is no way that much sugar and salt is going to dissolve in that little water at room temperature

this science and grad school talk is such a niche vibe but as someone in the last semester of their PhD in meteorology, I'm here for it #p4a2026

please tell me this parody is in the ddb #p4a2026

so what do we think the odds are of floor confetti being a perk again this year because I really like the frame I made with it and the postcard prints last year and I want to make another one #p4a2026

i am so proud of this #p4a2026

Unrelated to p4a, I think I'm having a minor crisis about whether I can actually finish my dissertation this semester even though I've already got the defense scheduled and it will break other paperwork things if I don't finish

Hank I can't have you being this ridiculous this early in the stream I'm still trying to get some work done in my office I can't die laughing until after dinner #p4a2026

john saying he's worried about if we'll use up all of the matching funds has me thinking he's underestimating the power of nerdfighteria #P4A2026

P4A bingo cards get your #P4A2026 bingo cards! Use any (or all!) of 'em, or reply here for your own custom card!

and if you use firefox mobile, ublock origin works on there, and therefore so does this filterlist. Be free of the ai summaries!

Me: made up a disappearing star for a story I was writing back in 2020 where it vanishes from most forms of detection but is still kinda there by ✨ magic ✨ The universe: hold my beer

Seeing as we already broke the P4A website yesterday... Presenting: Project for Awesome 2026 Bingo Cards #p4a2026 As in years past, I can re-run the generator to create custom cards on request! New this year, I can also turn the colors off for printer-friendly B&W cards.

So when should I start making and posting the #p4a2026 bingo cards? Besides maybe adding a few more color combo options or trying to add little decorative fishies around the borders, the code updates for this year are done (automatic txt files of alt text is my proudest upgrade this year)

Whether or not Jarrod returns, the bingo card generator is ready with so many past p4a mascots

today's new tessa violet song is healing something in me this afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm8u...

Shout-out to whoever spray painted "Ice melts" and "fudge ice" onto some of the piles of snow in the median on one of the main roads here

One of my animal crossing villagers asked me for a new catchphrase the other day and I couldn't resist...

there's something really fun about reading romantasy (currently Throne of Glass series) but coming from a fantasy adventure reading background rather than a romance one, and being able to predict so many of the big fantasy adventure twists (and using that to guess how the romance will evolve)

I am now convinced that my heavy winter jacket is only appropriate for -20°F or having minimal layers underneath because I just went for a walk in 10° F (-5° wind chill) with snow and by the time I got back to my apartment I was desperate to strip off my jacket and layers so I wouldn't overheat

(to the "years start coming" bit from All Star) Well, the snow starts coming and it won't stop coming

curious nerds need to know will Honk and Bonk be back for #p4a2026 (it's me I'm curious nerds)

My uni in the face of snowmageddon: classes are cancelled tomorrow after 12pm and the university will be closed until the weather improves Also my uni: but come to the gymnastics meet tomorrow afternoon!

how long can it possibly take to rm -r my old anaconda directory so I can reinstall conda finally be free of this research group server update mess that started almost two months ago

a little bit of hyperfixation this evening and I've got updated colors and automatic creation of text files with the alt text so I don't have to type that out myself this year, giving me plenty of time to see if I can integrate in some other visual elements

just got my abstract acceptance emails for the academic conference I'm going to later this semester and I'm already excited about the session my talk is in like the titles and speakers look like it's going to be an absolutely 🔥 session

the other day I was talking about putting characters through the wringer in stuff I've written, and so I started rereading some of my writing, and apparently I managed to fit sneezing is not normal into a writing prompt response the other year

you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

so the 2026 p4a website is up and p4a is basically a month away which means it's time for me to start updating the bingo card generator, so if there's anything you think should be added to the pool, drop it in the replies!

now taking bets on whether my carefully crafted auto-delete rules on my uni email will cross 1000 emails before I graduate (as of right now, they've saved me from reading 944 emails I don't care about, like for the skydiving club)

Today in "pokemon go is a very functioning game", I went for a 7km run, did routes for the whole time, and got 300m of credit for my buddy and eggs 🫠 It's a good thing I like running for the exercise because otherwise I'd be real mad instead of kinda mad

I'm calling it now this is going to be my anthem of 2026

I hated during p4a last year when bdg was like "I can't blink but my eyes are dry so I'm going to hold them open and roll them around" but this actually works great when I put eye drops in my eyes

so I decided to stay on main campus after an appointment I had this afternoon and just got jumpscared by the "attention: the library will be closing in 30 minutes" announcement

I thought that my perception of time was extra messed up this afternoon and was initially chalking it up to the adhd but turns out I actually forgot to change the time zone on my laptop back to US central time after getting back to grad school land from the holidays (in US eastern time)

now taking bets on whether I can read five books in the next six days and meet my reading goal for the year

it appears that the "zotero separate the family and given names correctly" challenge remains impossible, leaving me to go manually fix them every time I download papers

in a really weird full-circle moment, I am using a few lines of the code from these bingo cards as a basis for code for a figure for my dissertation because these are the things I've made that do the most plotting of text

Spotify wrapped is here and am I actually fine if my top song this year was "I'M FINE!" (I'm writing a dissertation no I'm not fine)

Just lost whamageddon because it came on the radio in my roommate's car tonight

I was so close to making it to December before turning the heat on but the next cold front comes through on Saturday and I think my roommate will be very upset if we don't turn the heat on by then

Signs you may be a nerd: wishing you had a data logger for your temperature probe so you could track the exact rate at which the turkey stock is cooling (to get it to a temperature where it won't make the fridge too warm)

can I put "proficient in using wasp spray on office wasps" on my CV?

how am I supposed to lock in on my work this afternoon when it's office wasp season and they keep crawling around in my peripheral vision?

I desperately wish that the music industry understood that I don't want to listen to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving but alas new Christmas music is already coming out and so I've had to start this year's edition of my new Christmas music playlist on Spotify

it constantly bugs me that the plural of potato is potatoes and the plural of tornado is (usually) tornadoes but the plural of zero is more commonly zeros (no e between the o and the s) because it means when I'm writing code I have to constantly remind myself how it's spelled