The Prairie View A&M Marching Storm band at Rice stadium tonigh:

Sept 1st, that’s when lots of new laws take effect in TX. One demands the posting of the 10 Commandments in public schools. They need proper annotations. #Labor Day #protests #Htown #50501

@tpwky.bsky.social After listening to your episode about leeches, I was chatting with my dentist and mentioned it. Turns out that he had actually used leeches in the past! He said that when he first picked one out of the jar he could never tell which end was the head. Fun stuff!!

H-town represents. Lots of pop-up storms in the area, but it didn’t rain on our parade!!! #nokings #houston

#handsoff. #houston

A survey for everyone. Which clueless, entitled statement will be our era’s version of “Let them eat cake.”? A) "My question is, have y’all been to space? ” B) “No young person thinks that retirement should be in the in the mid 60's or 67.” Or…

Art Car Parade in Houston today #artcar

Some of the science-themed gingerbread cookies I made for our graduate students’ fundraiser:

I only got "danmcd" on Twitter after a long time of some asshole having it. Right after I reacquired it, Musk bought Twitter. I only shutdown my Twitter accounts after the election (I am NOT on Twitter now!), but perhaps I should have sooner? Regardless: www.politicalorphans.com/forget-tesla...

My Gulf Map:

Baking my way through the WaPo recipe stack- here are the chewy chocolate-raspberry cookies. This is one of the most complicated recipes I’ve ever tried, but well worth it. These are mega-yummy!

WaPo is trying to entice me back. Hard pass. The craven, promise-breaking, bootlicker Bezos selling to someone committed to actual journalism is non-negotiable. So long and thanks for all the recipes.

So are you telling me that this Musk guy isn’t a straight shooter who’s on the up and up? www.instagram.com/alexfalcone/...

The 1st cup of coffee for 2025. Yes, I am a pessimist

Merry Christmas everyone. Here is an ornament I made with a 3D printer and blinged out.

From 10 years ago www.ted.com/talks/nick_h...

Here is a scarlet Ibis I photographed at Moody Gardens #birds

There’s just no bottom to Sean Hannity’s pettiness: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sea...

So I did my first reporting of a bad post (it was really racist), and I’m pleased to see that this place has proper mods.

The first picture I took with my first smart phone. The yellow crowned night heron was voted official bird of Houston, edging out the grackle. #birds

Equal time for my other birdie, Tweek #birds

Testing my addition to the list with this cute and silly little guy. Say hello to Ozzy. #birds