Not cozy in the conventional sense but here she is

Guess we finally cracked that old chestnut from Zhuangzi

thinking about this anthony bourdain quote

Is there a museum where you can see and touch a beaver hat? I want to see what all the fuss was about

I wish maturity for me meant "not dropping my phone all the damn time" but I guess I'll settle for "having the foresight to buy a good case and screen protector"

The Scrooge of Wrigleyville is a new spin on A Christmas Carol. set in Chicago's Wrigleyville, a miserable middle-aged man is visited by three inebriated spirits and learns to find the joy in the shameless nostalgic holiday pop-up bar experience. coming this Christmas to Paramount Plus.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

I hate Wrigleyville, it's the worst neighborhood. Full of bros and yuppies plus there's excrement everywhere. Plus it's the home of the Cubs, the enemy of any northbound commuter with self-respect. Didn't think I could hate it more but then all the bars are currently renamed to be Christmas-themed.

One time I took a mathematical physics class from an emeritus professor and all I remember was that he was very fixated on how quantum physics happens in a Banach space and not a Hilbert space and I just remember thinking "Buddy I barely know what a Hilbert space is what am I doing here"

Grateful for Liebnitz so generations of physicists can treat dx/dy as a fraction

No Liebnitz they’ll kill you, your calculus too hard, your statistics too rough

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

Even the Gorilla Channel can't resist making some easy Christmas money

Every time I see a large residential building with solar panels on top I am furious with jealousy.

Today I'm Building Character (going outside)

The Grinch has passed away. His Tesla Cybertruck left the freeway at a high rate of speed and was wreathed in flame almost immediately, where The Grinch was incinerated like common refuse. He is survived by his brother, The Grunch, and his much younger live-in "protege," Maximilian.

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Illinois, which has a very liberal gambling environment, did a needs assessment in 2022 and estimated that one in ten adults were either addicted to gambling or at risk of becoming addicted to it

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Cool post on how Google's TPUs work. It's part 2 of a series, part 1 has the history of them and is linked at the top but you don't need it to get this post open.substack.com/pub/thechipl...

cookie monster, crying, as the body of christ just crumbles and falls from his mouth

Lake Superior, Minnesota.

I'm still thinking about the absolutely wild intro to this LeBron fancam I found last night

I like my fun how I like my diabetes: type 2

The fun part of using Linux is hating the computer. Every time you use it some simple thing breaks and it opens new frontiers in hating both technology and yourself

Hell yes. Every bike is a cargo bike.

All those posts about solar panels, heat pumps and batteries? Yeah, you might say I'm

Do you think God stays in heaven because he lives in fear of what he's created on earth?

I colored the Mari Lwyd x St. Lucia drawing I did a year ago, no reason.

Greetings From Chicago 🎅🚂 2200 N. Milwaukee

Millennials thought we'd have to work till we dropped dead because of the student loans but it turns out we'll have to do it because we're the last generation to know how to read

One of my most memorable movie experiences was seeing Get Out at the New 400 (so glad it's reopening!) with a very vocal audience in a small theater

Important note: This is funny!

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”

Doesn't solve the fundamental problem but I think we should have civilian traffic enforcement and they should get a $50 bonus each time they cite a cop

What if the wsj and the trib editorial boards had a competition who could have the worst take? It'd be the Olympics of having shitty opinions

HBD Maxwell's Demon

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

easy, greasy, beautiful 🧈

The only hope we have for taking back the Senate is BMW making even shittier cars

This thread is perfection

Brad Bradnder

It would be impossible to count all the examples of Republican's complete disinterest in actually governing, but "promising to have a better healthcare plan than Obamacare for more than 15 years and never actually doing any work to make one" is up there

Someone is enjoying their new cat tree