Given Crates (of Thebes: delightful, look him up); and also Socrates (also fun: I appreciate his methods, his irony, his awareness of his ⁻⁺daimonion*⁺⁻, etc.); one must imagine there was a Sosocrates, who was probably...fine. * (¹⁰¢🧅? Coulda been the style at the time.)

When I was establishing my residency in the state of CA (as tuition requirement), I did so by making one credit card purchase per week and that purchase was a slurpee at the 7-11 that I walked by en route to campus. It would be amusing to look at my log of charges from the time because that was it.

Despite a lot of scholarship on the matter, I think my favorite hotdog topping is corn-dog batter. Maybe a little bonus mustard but nothing fancy.

I recognize it predates my era of commercial awareness, but simultaneously this feels very Berenstein Bears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX2b...

Did I manifest this episode of HMDK? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhST... The friendliness discourse before a hard pivot was so weirdly charming. (cf. bsky.app/profile/capn...)

For a tic I thought I would be productive this morning, but apparently it's a pace in front of the TV for a couple hours kind of day. ohmanohmanohmanohman

Though however many years back there was an NPR segment on Seven Nation Army as a soccer chant, a plot of its multinational propagation BEYOND 7 nations's fans deploying it would be pretty solid.

Yesterday, after a silly amount of time spent trying to retroactively adjust a 200some page doc to be side-bar navigable--a mess because ~all my headings were in tables--I scraped its table of contents and created a *new* document cutting and pasting from the old one. Lesson Learned: Start it clean!

As I work with elders in hotter places, I've gotten into a habit of ending calls with "Stay cool!" and I gently worry it comes across as 'signing off on a yearbook but unsure what to write'. ...Though what *I* believe I wrote more often was "See you in the car" given all around coolness levels.

Local city put on a J4 drone show and …maybe they were sandbagging 'cause I've seen some "ohgosh the robutts have got us pegged" drone shows. And this wasn't one. Like surely they could've boosted speeds— Anyhoo, as it finished a neighbor shot a single firework and I bounced to: youtu.be/TVkV2oGPM2k

There's not a lotta metascholarship as it's new, but in considering the why Shameus, the Shame Dude on "Adventure Time: Side Quests", sounded a bit like the Shame Wizard on "Big Mouth" (David Thewils), I landed on the gentle delight that the voice is Jon Ronson of "So You've Been Publicly Shamed".👩‍🍳 ͯ

You will know which one is the Plato by dint of the solidity of their arguments.

We're bringing it— We're bringing it— We're bringing it back! `’*-,._.,-*’``’*-,._.,-*’``’*-,. Welcome to the 2026 Reboot of ✨Cagemas in July✨! `’*-,._.,-*’``’*-,._.,-*’``’*-,._ (…Because there is nothing like a professional deadline to induce the squeezing out of more …avocational shenanigans.)

My degree of poking around here's increased now that I've started to actually sit in front of my computer to work again. (Plugged in an external monitor: it's for serious!) Not sure my neighbor loves my ∞¹ song playlist, but surely he soon will enjoy hearing my ♏ harmonies on ♫ the Wind of Change ♫.

"We have perfectly good Angina from Poutine at home," they'd say.

The "convenient to whom?" follow-up query in my mind colocated w/ an echo of "the chicken is involved but the pig is committed" (...which as a non-pig-eater has never had the most the most resonance, and I often nudge it to cow vis-à-vis 'steak and eggs' which is more real). Nevertheless: tangents.

"Maslow down there, cowboy."

I appreciate that it's likely because I'm generally go-along/get-along and he was hoping for slightly hotter gossip, but my old⁷boss's shift and uptick of interest during a science call wherein I alluded to the existence of a scientist of whom I was distinctly not fond was immediate and substantial.

Technically, one can buy slippers with magnets in them, but the sales always seems pointed toward nebulous health benefits as opposed to the fact that you could potentially never lose a single shoe to hijinks of fate (or autonomous vacuum robot action). Get your act together, vendors. xo, Cinderella

I was thinking about how "The Insider" (1997) really holds up and the detail-oriented corner of me was like, "...even though there was a flame-war between Gladiator and Michael Corleone over *fax machine*?" and the big picture seer was like, "EVEN THOUGH CAPTAIN VON TRAPP TOOK A BIT TO COME AROUND."

Yellow (…though really pink. Sometimes carrot depending on recent nutrition and cravings. Maybe According to Hoyle Yellow if it's covered in chocolate if there's company whose happiness would induce metapleasure. But also cheese.) ...in conclusion, I have complex cake feelings. (I like cornbread)

Pro-gif'd Hail Mary

You can miss me with your "No Country for Old Men" nostalgia, but a "No Country for Grumpy Old Men" reboot with the ghosts of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau? For this use could I drop a large sum of money (like the price of a digital video disc) in the desert.

I wonder suddenly to what extent the little guy is in an kinda Ellen James situation where despite verbal limitations he can actually write well.

A few weeks ago at a conference, a prof I met a few years ago was like, "hey, congrats on your new position!" and I responded, "UGH did you knock me outta 1st on the puzzle rankings?" and he was like, "That WOULD be the best way to gloat, but no: your appointment." …But now I think that every time.

While uncertain it's the right gameplan, my natural response to very languid paced speaking customer service reps is apparently to go at it all at MarmQuick (slower than the micromachines guy but faster than default) to get as much detail out per any individual verbal volley and preempt questions.

Per the origin story of the Mister in Mr. T°, I do feel like you gotta put some respect on that Doctor in DR Congo. °https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T

As far as weasel words go, every time I see the word "coinsurance" used instead of the words "you pay" I understand non[•(chemical)//√(mathematical)] radicalization a little better.

I am not sure if it says a bad thing about my tendency toward suspicion, but given the number of times I've entered my apartment after a trip and worried maybe raccoons got in, it is amusing to enter and wonder if someone broke in and cleaned the place (...I still assume raccoons, just tidier ones.)

Occasionally I'll reremember that in 2004-2009 I did a stint as a project manager that led to my subsequent inclination to set up projects in ways that are remarkably friendly to re-immersion. (I found a spreadsheet, the original assets, AND stubs for next steps I had forgotten about!) JULY REBOOT!

I called someone a "dumbshit" last night in front of my parents and realized that though my mom heard me swear before (the 1st time being in Newark area I-95/turnpike traffic, sometime in the last 10 years,) my dad maybe had NEVER and he looked at me and said, "Dumb what?" and I was like, "Nothing!"

It is not that science fights are ALWAYS petty, but I must admit that in my heart an hour later I am feeling it.

The question is less "did I just get scolded for retrograding up a down bound escalator?" (yes) so much as "did I just get scolded in front of the grandson of my old boss, who saw me see him and double back to say hi?" (Also yes). I'd say I will never live it down, but once I stopped I kinda did.

YoungProfMakingIntros: Do you know Mariam? ScientistW/GentlyAgedBeef: ...I know you by reputation. ME: Yeah you do. (It was a perfect conference interaction.)

The science posting upticks with conference season is upon us and I an here for it. (It really is like one saturation unit difference between a sassy and staid membrane bound molecule.)

I feel like 80% of my still masking up at corporate events is just for polite subtlety in looking askance when a more open version of myself would absolutely be unabashed about pulling some faces about my BS detector being saturated with signal.

Favorite Liminal State Between Death and Rebirth: Bardos of Canada. (I imagine you can still smell the maple syrup.)

🚨 ᴛᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ɴᴇᴡs! 🚨 I have seemingly transitioned my schedule back to waking up in the proper morning in advance of an AM flight and a week of morning conference sessions. (I regret having to note that it involved the banal method of...just starting the process of going to sleep well before 3AM.)

A tricky problem I have with Douglas Hodge is that he was so weirdly charming in "The Great" that every time I've seen him in ANYTHING since, regardless context, I stage whisper the very salty appellation that came out of Nick Hoult every time he discussed DH=Velementov and then I feel bad about it.

It feels gently momentous--though I mean that more like a harbinger of maybe some inner positive momentum more than being precisely important--but every so often I wake up with Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" playing somewhere inside me. Not a bad feel. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMTk...

Ed Gamble talking about his Aluminium Foil giftwrap phase with Armando Iannucci (on the Taskmaster podcast) was nigh as weirdly validating as Brett Goldstein's disclosure on the efficiency of storing clean clothes in dryer, worn clothes in washer. (I also highly rank meeting Sesame Street muppets.)

"Less talk, more rock."

Are "open concept" dental offices a broader thing now or is it just a localish architectural trend? (I feel like in IN/TN/PA/the past one was in more of a room with maybe an open door but not listening to the sucking noises in the mouth of some guy 6 feet away on the other side of an Xray cabinet.)

ADVENTURES IN ECONOMICAL VINDICTIVENESS: given a $2 off coupon at the grocery store for a bakery item, I planned a morning around walking to the grocery store to get a donut, only to learn at checkout that the system couldn't handle "a negative number" and since donuts cost <2, they were a no go!

In terms of easily accessible technojoys, I submit to you: The Pizza Hat Info Generator. As a postdoc I became superfriends w/ a German colleague with whom I'd quickly drop uncertain terms into wikipedia, swap languages, and back-translate articles to acquire all internationally siloed knowledge.

The "Amazing how fire exposes our priorities" adjacent moment I just had really set things up well for a corollary on troubleshooting pipelines and not *necessarily* defaulting to assumptions about problem inducement by moral failure. My jumping to conclusions mat remains here, for what it's worth.

"Ohh! Cognitive Warfare JUST took out Reddit. Booyeah!", is a thing just said in this living room*. (I also recently have stated that "I've got a solid B in wikigatcha," as 43/50 trophies feels quasi-respectable.) *I will neither confirm nor deny if a Final Fantasy III mp3 was playing, but, yeah.

There's something very "cat looking you in the eye while it poops in your shoes" about some jabronies citing your work in a paper in which they are doing it wrong and claiming...novelty? C'mon. Like you can't outright hate the cat, but...it is what it is. I am a halloween. makeagif.com/i/kqqblW

[Dr. M's Rx TV: CCW s2] As someone who holds her tongue any time she sees food served w/ complicated eating instructions, I have thought about the apotheosis of perfect competition serving that was the silent serving of 3 spoons of pre-selected components in CCW for months. Also: Demolition Man.

A "One Trip Pony" usually has more than a few tricks.