academy award contending tiktok

A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd

wild how Ferry Corsten can still spin sets that take me back to when he started

"when legend's told, nobody's going to believe we were this stupid!" probably my favorite line in all of B movie dreck (Deathstalker 2)

Grigori Perelman stars as Hellboy

neat, today even has a discourse I know something about. (nice try, Satan!)

so tired I fell asleep in the dentist's chair while he was drilling

One of the most important skills you can develop online is understanding when something is Not For You

unread messages 451. the backlog at which my brain burns.

Bluesky discourse tonight reminds me of this Zen story www.kindspring.org/story/view.p...

personally, i will never tire of snark and mockery directed at the man who proclaimed the end of history in the 1990s and yet believes we should still be listening to him even today (standard disclaimer, all posts represent personal views only and not those of employers past or present)

so: my spouse is at a thing across the country, texts me to say that the head of (place where I first fell off the tenure track) is spectacular & spouse is ready to go work there (despite being in a totally different line of work)

This only happens to you once

dinner is triple crème Brie on Ritz, so go ahead and judge me

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases. Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE. Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

Old tweets

Ruin a book with a car: Yugo Make Your Bed

CHOTINER: I see you've used the 'isaac chotiner interview' format for a series of posts ME: Well, I noticed a lot of people getting a fair amount of attention for some clever spins on the- C: Ok, but in 2023 you tweeted "fuck these lazy clout chasing joke trends" in respo- Me: Now, wait a second

CHOTINER: JOHN CAGE: CHOTINER: JOHN CAGE: CHOTINER: JOHN CAGE: CHOTINER and CAGE's ears: ᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉ CHOTINER: Fascinating. JOHN CAGE: Yes.

honestly I don't think I've ever loved a show's intro song like I love Welcome To Wrexham's

look forward to the day when Merriam-Webster posts that the verb "to chotiner" is the newest addition

the energy I bring to icebreaker exercises

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

A riot of color

gratitude, generosity, and grace. some of the guy's best work in years.

"... If you can fill the unforgiving minute With 60 seconds' worth of distance run..."

Technologically advance a band Phasers N’ Roses

technologically advance a band Zooming Wilburys

Keep going. Don't give up.

This lovely lady flew past my head and landed on a metal fence post which she tried to slurp. Gave me time to get right into her business to snap her delightfully frosted ventral details 🔬

technologically advance a band Blink-6502

crossing off to-do list items with the theatricality of a DJ turning knobs on the mixer

Not today, things that I was supposed to do yesterday. Not today...

Welp, updated my "biggest wind turbine in the world" slide again. Last time I taught thermo, it was a 19 MW turbine with 128 m blades. This year, it's 26 MW with 150 m blades. Always offshore, always in China. Context: A Boeing 747 is 71 m long. 150 m is about the height of a 50-story skyscraper.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

My “death of consensus reality” t-shirt is raising questions that nobody else asked because they saw a different t-shirt

There’s a separate phenomenon here where you can measure how online you are by how far you can scroll before the replies stop making any sense

I regret I never got to see these guys live youtu.be/5owZfoGwdAs

1: please cc me on that email 2: of course! what is this, amateur hour?

forget about home runs, kid, you can't even hit *singles* if you're afraid to step up to the plate

"The Costco Amontillado", in which Montresor saves Fortunato's life by bricking in the wine instead

If I could communicate one thing about vintage electronics it's that if something older than 20 years has been sitting around for a long, long time, DO NOT JUST TURN IT ON. There is a chance the electrolytic capacitors have died (best case) or they've exploded and covered the inside with crap.

why'd they call it "bathroom humor" and not "commody" smh

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

personally I think we should hold off on restrictions on mirror-life research until we see a mirror-life Major League Baseball where the majority of pitchers are left-handed

for iOS, it's Accessibility -> Display -> Color Filters flip them on and choose greyscale

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

32 years ago today, Counting Crows gifted us a masterpiece. I am not worried, I am not overly concerned. I am, however, old.

Make a band singular: Joy Division by Joy