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tonight is an important learning opportunity for all NC State undergrads. one should never ever hope NC State sports will do the comprehensible thing, let along the right thing. “should” and “NC State” are terms that are fully incompatible.

@edsbs.bsky.social hey Spencer wheel route’s open

in this edition of the weekly occurrence when The Onion posts real things on accident: my secret to doing my job is that I can derive a linear mixed model and I have three reliable preparations of gray squirrel

bought a recliner at the ReStore, brought the taxidermy from my parents’ house, and presently fermenting several pounds of chilies. living the dream.

a missed call on a (very clear) PI is immediately followed by a large punt return allowed by NC State careful analysis informed by decades of accumulated data has provided insight about the appropriate fan response: it is time to switch to another game and pretend It Does Not Exist

every now and again I think about how NPR got Juvenile to do a Tiny Desk and briefly change my opinion that the Internet was a mistake

I have desperately missed the sweet audio integrity of LinkedIn live podcasts

happy 5th anniversary to the "a drive to deep left field by Castellanos" call, possibly one of the great inflection points in modern civilzation

Bluey doesn’t come with a content warning and after the moving/wedding episode that frankly should be a criminal offense

top five all time Dudes Rock clip

say what you will about the tenets of Northern European hyper-secular utilitarianism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos

end-of-vacation report: I still haven’t learned to French braid but I’ve learned a lot about styling the hair of a three year old with hair too fine for traditional braids. also it’s possible I don’t have a job in 3 weeks because I’m supposed to return to my office, which is ~535 miles from my house

I’ve thought about it a lot and I’m comfortable in announcing that Billy Strings in the greatest living guitarist www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwH5...

was reminded today of why I grew my hair out a few years ago (the spectre of time and my destiny for a minimum 8-head instead of a forehead) but then I looked to my daughter, who goes to school every day with some banging styles/braids. some things work out right even for the wrong reason.

mid-vacation report: my three year old got frustrated I wasn’t pulling her fast enough on the tube so she resorted to her first attempt at wake surfing (successful) and discovering the joy of jumping off troublingly high ledges into water (3’ but still)

I want to know who has sponsored the “my friends think I’m on ozypic but actually I’m drinking vinegar and baking soda then dipping my face in a fruit juice bath” ad I keep getting on YouTube because that person deserves a laurel and a hearty handshake

taking leave for the entire month of July, for all inquiries please contact someone else

have had this in my head for several days - my grandpa’s best friend had an accent so strong that my dad had to translate what he was saying for my mom despite my mom growing up 5-6 miles away. this was the case from when my parents met to when Alden passed

LinkedIn is good for two things: 1. providing remarkably high-fi audio for @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social After Dark streams and 2. serving up some of the most mud-butt slop imaginable from the least interesting people you could conceive of

I regret to inform everyone that Hose Posting is back

As I’ve been saying. (I may be ageist, but so is biology.)

just happy that Kerry, Kelley, and Dale Jr. clearly have done some good work in therapy. watching through a second time in hopes it wouldn’t be quite as emotional, but they should really put in a content warning if your childhood area codes were 828, 336, or 704

lots of press coverage on this, which is either a postdoc doing something stupid or committing the most incompetent bioterrorism attack on human history. not a lot on the USDA getting their teeth kicked in on extramural funding capacity to enable research on this stuff

we are racking ‘em up this week, another 2-alarm call for what can only be presumed to be another defective smoke detector

I have been cooked to a cinder. help

having an existential crisis as I sip on the iced coffee I got from Taco Bell this morning

moved into a townhome community about a year ago. in that time I there have been somewhere between 10 and 15 2-alarm fire calls. seems like a lot of fires for new construction?

persistent thought about how in the video for Mystikal’s “Shake Ya Azz” a henchman hands him a note that says “gumbo”

hating Charlotte is the bare minimum you would expect from any person you'd be willing to shake hands with. only valuable insofar that it collects people who want to be there, none of whom I want living close to my family.

Andor did what Righteous Gemstones couldn’t, which is make us sad for bad people. best two series since Better Call Saul, love them both immensely. but Andor made me hope Dedra gets to jump into a reservoir one day.

possibly the most easily profile-able family on earth for Disney because my “next up” bar is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Frozen 2, Andor, Moana (sing-along version)

I’ll just say it because it’s true: there was no good way to end Righteous Gemstones because we were always gonna chase the dragon of “God bless this cocaine” but the ending was bad, worst episode of the series by a wide margin

inhibiting my daughter’s intellectual development because the u-pick strawberry farm across the road from the house has an inflatable man thing she calls a “balloon man” and I can only call it “b’loon man” to the tune of Soundgarden’s “Spoon Man”

this is Cruella de Vil, not Sarah Palin. sorry.

setting aside the incoherent gibberish of the leveled accusation, Ms. Rachel is un-cancellable because the only demo who *could* walk away is parents of young children, all of whom hold her sacrosanct

spring is awesome (/s) for sourdough because it will take 36 hours to bulk ferment. reckon it has to do with it being warm outside to turn off the heat so it ends up being net-cooler in the kitchen than either summer or fall.

please let me know if you find some forbidden mac n’ cheese pines - our group is working on genetic resistance. our Fed colleagues seemingly aren’t continuing fusiform rust research but we are. (pic courtesy of Tania Quesada, h/t to @treephys.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention)

if you were born between 1985 and 1995, basically nothing can prepare you for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFl_...

today my dad celebrates 40 years at his job. he’s had the same role since 1985, turning down who-knows how many opportunities to become a manager of more. I’ve learned a lot from him as a dad and husband but I have learned from seeing him do that specific thing.

fully understanding I’m shouting into the void, someone please tell me they saw the Stetson-Florida baseball review situation and that I wasn’t hallucinating

not sure there’s ever been a wider delta between line reading (or writing??) and quality of overall product than Ginger saying “get the gear, mates” in S1E4 of True Detective

please enjoy Noqu Masu as a timeline cleanse

great, now I have to sit in the garage and listen to Aja tonight

the Todd Golden situation is quite the potent Rorshach test

Dale Jr. has made a good football tweet

nothing more humbling than when your 3yo is wilding out and you begin to shout “why are you being such a chi-“ and realize that you are the one not meeting the normative expectation of age-appropriate behavior

there are many words and phrases in forestry that can be hard to parse, even when we get 15-20 PhDs together to discuss our most straightforward sub-disciplines. "tree equity" is super easy to parse: the person uttering this has not touched a tree (or grass for that matter) in far too long

several weeks late but Christiaan from series 12 of Bake Off should go to jail until he gets a different accent.

this is why it's hard to be super interested in the LeBatard universe any more - both the base immorality embraced by ostensibly justice/empathy-oriented people and the tsunami of inane programming based on gambling