Back at this after not having a ton of free time this week with Tomb Raider 4 Remastered and hooo boy this one was rough for me.

New #humblebundle monthly is out so going to try to get through those next.

Got given a subscription to @humblebundle.com monthly bundle this year which has inspired me to play through more of my backlog as well. Goal is to play a new game a day (if I play any games that day) and post about it here.

And this is not just a problem for academia. Many colleagues who were NSF fellows - federally funded grad students - now work for start-ups, pharma, tech, etc. Graduate students are current and future innovators in all spaces. Drying up training pipelines will dehydrate our industries. 🫗#SaveNSF

This is what is getting me about the current sweep of Musk stories. The damage "DOGE" did is astounding - he didn't fail at chain-sawing. Was it a failure at cutting costs? Absolutely. Was it incredibly destructive and demoralizing in ways we will only come to terms with over years? Absolutely.

Since we’re in a golden age of new Star Wars tv shows, I’ll again pitch “David Attenborough style nature documentaries but of fictional Star Wars creatures.” No empire. No Jedi. Like, what the Jedi would watch on tv to relax after a stressful mission.

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Congress should hold hearings on this but it’s hard when you can only ask him five questions

Tepid take: Cantaloupe is a trash fruit that ruins fruit salads. If you want a melon as the largest volume, use watermelon.

🚀DEEP SPACE DISCOUNTS🚀 Ep 1: The First Of Many is LIVE

ADVENTURER: Dragon! We are here for your gold! Prepare to die! DRAGON: My gold? ADVENTURER: Yes! We climbed this great mountain, swam it's flooded caverns and- DRAGON: Fair enough ADVENTURER: Wait, what? DRAGON: It's yours ADVENTURER: DRAGON: How are you carrying it out of here? ADVENTURER: Um... /1

Started lifting weights while waiting to get back in the pool after surgery. Felt like every lift was way harder today until I realized I’d added 15 lb instead of 5… My whole job is math…

My “I don’t want to kill executives” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt

Happy Thanksgiving - hope you are surrounded by love this holiday. I’m thankful for the invigorated spirit in this online science community, as cliche as it is.

And it’s done! My part of Thanksgiving is done. At least until it’s dish time.

Every holiday has an urbanism angle and Thanksgiving is no exception. Time to take stock of the national spare bedroom reserve! slate.com/business/202...

Being a panthers fan means getting excited that you have any points when highlights get shown during other games.

Starting prep on the turkey for the main event, Thanksgiving at my in-laws. First time we are doing the turkey so hope it goes well.

First real turkey of the year for my wife’s lab thanksgiving!

Another weird music day at the pool with a 60s soul playlist. “Can’t Help Myself” may be a classic wedding song but it’s terrible pump up music.

How is it that none of the "smart" devices/services I have are smart enough to be useful about holiday closures? Every M/W/F morning I get up at the same time to go to the county pool, you'd think that this morning Apple or Google could pop up a "Hey the place you are going is closed" message

Maybe the most terrifying DIY I’ve done so far due to the raised bits on the wall. Find myself tiptoeing around it while cleaning up.

It's fall

Seeing an “Anyone But Biden” yard sign mangled to add a “2.0” really undercuts the original message.

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how many squid facts you knew - if you offered others squid facts - how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

Extremely confusing day of music in public. Pool was playing some sort of commentary version of Across the Universe by the Beatles. Documentary voiceover is not good workout vibes. Now I’m giving blood and they are playing an R&B version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I’m so baffled

"Imagine if idling your car produced solved sudokus you could trade for heroin" THE PROPHECY IS FULFILLED

Time zones are criminal conspiracies. They are RICO.

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

Hey! Are you a Democrat in North Carolina? We made you a spreadsheet with all of the endorsements for all of the state-level races. They all link back to primary sources, as well. triangleblogblog.com/2024/02/14/e...

The CIA has one hell of a special teams unit

Now would be the perfect time to rob one of Terry Benedict's casinos

wait… revolving but similar casts of uniformly funny noncelebrity celebrities endless weird bantery gameshows where nothing is actually won or lost my wife doesn’t get it no matter how many times i show her DROPOUT TV IS JUST BRITISH TELEVISION FOR AMERICAN NERDS