Colleague hit an error with decades-old code that calibrates MODIS on Terra. An array access was suddenly out of bounds. Turns out that when the code was written in the early 90s developers sized an array for monthly updates with 300 rows. No one imagined it would be on orbit longer than 25 years.

I just injected a Tylenol capsule with the COVID vaccine. Now we wait...

Good foggy morning to you.

Please, no. l'm old, and I don't think I can survive another Boris Becker Shorts epidemic.

Nemesis doesn’t appreciate my latest joke purchase 😜 #catsky #cats #funny

"Stop calling us Nazis," said the Nazi nazingly.

Focus on the light. #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling

1975: Computing in a Catholic High School Teacher: Fill in these cards using pencil. Each card is a line of a Basic to be fed into the computer. Results are printed here. Me: Here's my first program. Can I put the cards in? Teacher: No, not until the Vatican assigns a patron saint for computers.

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

Despite my not great start, it was worth seeing the predawn sky being extra again.

Your coffee mug tells me everything I need to know. SHOW THEM

for more details, contact your local congressman

“I’m really good at this stuff; your countries are going to hell.” I'm reading this as he's really good at making a country go to hell.

Share your favourite black and white movie

Nice shoutout to satellites by Melania today, as her husband and his henchmen gut NASA and NOAA... and word on the street has it that the passage was plagiarized. #NASA #NOAA

The goodest cake.

i said, stress free, motherfucker!!!! on the ground, now!!!!!

“Did I miss the Rapture?!”

September 1st: Soon it will be pumpkin spice season. I can’t wait. First Day of Autumn: I’m sick of pumpkin spice.

I was raptured this morning but I managed to come back. So, what’d I miss?

1yo’s catchphrase is currently “I did it!” Stacking blocks and making a tower? “I did it!” Climbing onto furniture she shouldn’t be climbing on? “I did it!” Spitting food at me and getting it directly into my mouth? You better believe that’s an “I did it!”

Happy Bi-Visibility Day! 💖💜💙 David, the 🇲🇽 MMC from my novel Specimen, is bi from page one, no awakenings, tho does share 1 early bi confirmation: *that* Bond scene between Daniel Craig + Javier Bardem. "OH Mr Bond!" David in Tijuana artist 🎨 @kholbatar.bsky.social

Bookish Thoughts 📖🤔: 3.5/5 ⭐ Gives very reworked fanfic vibes. 🚨MIND YOUR SQUICKS🚨 #BookSky #Romance #SFF #Queer #Achillean #Polyamory 💙📚🌈📚🌶️📚🪐

Just thinking about translators today for some reason. . .

If you block me, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

The Outrage by @whusseyauthor.bsky.social is a dark and gritty dystopian vision of a police state Britain where being a degen (LGBTQ) is outlawed, and brilliantly depicts the struggles of the two MCs, Gabriel and Eric, to come to terms with themselves in its shadow. Highly recommend it!

Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave this world, Thou cacodemon, there thy kingdom is.

Grandbaby arrived prematurely in wee hours (Amman, Jordan). Little guy had transfusion & was intubated (told that's not uncommon for premies). Mom & baby are comfortable 🙏 In Judaism, being born on Rosh Hashanah is a special blessing. Our son looking down at his son ❤️👼

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Was there a rapture? Well I did see a man go out at night eating cars. He ate Cadillacs, Lincolns too. Mercurys and Subaru. And he didn’t stop. He kept on eating cars. I think that counts.

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off." 'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.' We hope neither carries you off today.

11 Harrowhouse (1974)

The AKC Dinner: Hotdogs and hush puppies.

Ta da, finished Apple-Honey cake. Hub said, "That's what Simmy used to make!" She was his best pal's mom, a great lady & cook. Her cousin was Mel Blanc. Every Rosh Hashanah he'd call & wish kids Happy New Year as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. May this year bring sweet moments & cherished memories.

Hey folks, tomorrow’s the last day to enter this humongous giveaway featuring a bunch of rad writers plus me. Get thee now-ish to bit.ly/enchanted-september and put your name in the digital hat!

Tylenol causes autism the same way that hanging with Epstein causes brain worms.

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish when the missile vaporized him." -Ernest Hemingway revised

1/2 This encouraged me to do something I've wanted to do for awhile: give away (small) box of mystery books (mainstream, few cozies). Have a bunch from contests I've judged, hardcover, darn near pristine. Respond w/ 👍 if interested US only. No addresses! Will select name & get addr via private msg.

Happy First Day of Fall! 🍂

Calling everyone and everything I see “autumnal” for the rest of the day

If we don't get a full rapture, can we at least have Heaven's Gate 2 as a treat?

And I still won't make the cut.

Don’t let the Equinox get you down! 😆 You know, because it’s the Fall Equinox. Fall like in gravity? Sorry. I’ll wait over there.

I had a prophetic vision last night. On September 23rd, those people who can correctly identify traffic lights in a grid of 16 images will be taken up as part of the Great Captcha.

Comic books ask for a suspension of beliefs regarding outlandish ideas. Lois Lane is an example. Like we’re supposed to believe in a thing called a “journalist”: someone who relentlessly pursues the truth, does research, asks difficult questions, confronts the powerful, and exposes the corrupt.

The photographer, the camera, and the photo.

Welcoming the rapture