Set out to tidy my desk and found a receipt I’ve been looking for in the first 5 minutes. … I think I’ve accomplished enough for today.

@dmoren.com Immediately thought of ACP

Arrived at conference. The big talk I have to give on Wednesday is … maybe a 1/3 done. Schedule is of course 95% full from breakfast through dinner between now and then.😬😬😬

Learning from my colleague that there is little agreement on when Diwali is. Based on a lunar calendar? Different in different countries? Seems like an excuse for a week long holiday to me! Anyway, all the best to those who celebrate.

An unexpected martensitic transformation

I’m not sure there’s a cozier BBC title than “Murder Before Evensong”

The fact that “you can spot AI because it overuses em dashes” clearly means it has trained on my writing

It’s Monday and I have an empty calendar today. Plenty of time to get stuff done that’s due by the end of the month. This is a recipe for procrastination.

Hanging at the airport and someone at the table next to us forgot a bag. After it sat there for 20 minutes, we alerted TSA and they’re “checking it out”. No explosives but there was a passport in it.

On the other hand, I’m just fine with delays getting into DCA that are because more safety

Somehow talked into 9 pm dinner reservations at a restaurant I’ve wanted to go to for ages except now I need to figure out how to take a nap today #old

These are DISGUSTING and all over the sidewalks

Sudden urge to listen to the Queen Highlander soundtrack. Here’s hoping they use some of this in the remake.

Definitely. Nudge nudge. Also the comments are priceless.

I have booked my flight to Boston next week. Also booked a car because none of my traveling companions are willing to drive in that city. (Also visiting Worcester so car is unfortunately necessary)

One of my work meetings this week requires long pants and closed toes shoes. Temperature in the high 90s. This is UNACCEPTABLE.

@gnomad.bsky.social This is for you

I wish people would stop telling me how great The Last Of Us is. Of course it’s great. It’s just not for me.

Amazed to learn that Chubby Checker is (a) still alive and (b) has a kid who played for the WNBA and might be my new hero

I mostly don’t understand rewatching culture because there are so many thing yet to watch

I just used stoichiometric in a sentence and I hope it means what I think I remember it means

Excellent bartender at Service Bar who gifted us an extra shot (and did the shot with us) and I did not need that last shot

I’m sorry. It’s not even mid July! Nobody wants this.

Attempting to write a thing today but also clean out that big box of orphan wires and connectors. Or at least get two boxes down to one box.

My bike survived the deluge at 3 pm! And I managed to bike home during a tiny sliver of sun at 5 pm! Now raining again and I’m tucked in all cozy. ⭐️

For everyone disappointed with Pokerface S2: sorry to inform you it is not a mystery/procedural/whodunit/Columbo-clone in any way. It is instead experimental cinema in every way. Nothing else like it!

It’s not fair to post pictures of strawberry shortcake when I don’t have any

Okay now it’s happening. They’re going to move HUD out of their crumbling downtown brutalist building into the new-ish NSF building in Alexandria. And NSF goes … where? #uspoli

I seriously thought “it’s been a long week” this afternoon. It’s Tuesday.

Fun day in the sun yesterday at the World Pride parade in DC with @gnomad.bsky.social It was HUGE, everything was beautiful, so many people smiling and dancing. My fave might be the Canadians with the inflatable (festive) moose or the Brits with the (festive) bagpipers. Or the (festive) chemists!

This is a beautiful vid that I recognize about 10% of. I want a late night con session where people go through it scene by scene and say why each one was great

We are in that “the cork crumbled” stage of trying to sieve the wine through a coffee filter

I have maintained for years that the number font on the Baltimore Ravens uniforms is the worst, but Tottenham is definitely in the running.

I mean, everybody reads books from their own point of view. I don’t remember ever thinking “goofy” reading the books

Landed at DCA just as they closed the airport. It’s pelting!!

Visited the Chicago Botanic Garden for the first time and really wanted this particular blue ball cap. Turns out it was only available to members so I was ready to shell out for a membership - and was then informed this one is only for renewing members. No hat for me, a membership lost for them.

What the…

We have a “problem” employee that no one can seem to work with that also seems to trust me and it’s looking like I will get to work with her now (as many of my colleagues have refused). Can’t … wait.

Yup.

Yes, but have you booped her nose? #snek

I am done with Arthurian retellings (noped out of Moonbound and The Bright Sword, limped through Spear) but definitely into yet another Sherlockian retelling (Sherlock and Daughter, The Angel of the Crows).

I am hearing multiple references to “old man yaoi” for House and Wilson, Conclave… or anyone with Pedro Pascal. This is not right but also exactly right.

These folks really know how to do a Con Suite ❤️❤️❤️

In silver lining news, the cold snap has kept the flowers on the redbuds and double cherry trees much longer than expected!

The administration has done a great job scaring the federal workforce to the point that they’re all ready to take the package. I mean, it’s a good package. But also, we can’t replace anyone who takes it.

I don’t think people read Project 2025 closely enough. They are tired of university education that “teaches people to think”. They want vocational schools, and nothing more. #uspoli

As it turns out, my fruit tier list is solely based on whether I would juice it and put it in a cocktail/mocktail.

I either resort to “where am I with respect to the nearest body of water” or “where am I with respect to the house I grew up in” and then I know.

Ooh. I’m going to Vegas next week and staying in the hotel with the NETFLIX BITES restaurant. The Money Heist cocktail comes in a puzzle box! www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

TFW I order something online with the promise to ship in 24-48 hours and I get it 15 days later and in the meantime get 36 promo emails with all-caps subject lines….