I was saying to Kid 3 just hours ago how cool it would be to see a ref do the safety signal and lamenting how infrequently that happens. 🤯🫢🤣

SAFETY!!!

four older teens playing DnD here today!

classic Curt

fun fact about that Rose Bowl in 1917: UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore. The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it. The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.

but if Texas Tech can average 1.5 points per second...

Oregon short by the depth of a Pop-Tart!

Orange Bowl MVP has to be Finney Jr, right?!

OpenAI: We need background music for our commercial showing how ChatGPT can help people do pull-ups. ad company: Let's go with a song by Simple Minds.

fake punts are so satisfying

Oregon playing in the Orange Bowl at 9am PT on New Year's hurts even more after squeezing in the 2-hour finale of Stranger Things

who else watched the Stranger Things finale immediately because they were afraid the foggy fireworks photos of the Space Needle were spoilers?

The new year has been pretty happy so far, I guess.

"The Promise" by When In Rome has been my lullaby to Kid 3 since she was an infant, and I still sing it to her 14 years later. She pretends to fall asleep immediately whenever she hears in other contexts. Which makes its use in a Planet Fitness commercial *hilarious* around our household.

Zeno's penalties in the Iowa-Vanderbilt game

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

At great sacrifice my parents bought our family a current, full set of encyclopedias after my first-grade teacher expressed concerns about what I had drawn on a manila folder at school.

Brigitte Bardot's most memorable role was replacing Ingrid Bergman as Hypotenuse in Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva's remake of THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE.

If both your headlights stop working over a period of a few days... and you replace the bulbs but that doesn't do the trick... and the fuses for the headlights are fine... then the culprit might be the headlight relay! (It's likely in the fuse box too, as well as cheap and easy to replace.) TIL

the AI summary of LotR the brand's founders glanced at failed to mention that Sauron famously met his end at the hand of intruders

Kid 1's gift made me laugh so hard I cried

Christmas status: sitting down for breakfast at 11:45am; present opening to happen sometime after that Have I mentioned lately how *sublime* it is to have teenagers (and a twenty-something)?

This means something.

Search your first name and then ‘glamour shot’ and post a photo. (Ultimate glamour shot?)

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

ATTENTION: Tommy Tutone later recorded a Christmas version of "867-5309/Jenny" youtu.be/TgCdhAIHO3o?...

This is probably going to jinx me, but I've been doing great with Whamageddon so far this December!

"They want to silence me. Zirpola is going mad. He's going to war with Triton for their fuel. ... The people don't know that he's dying of brain disease. They believe everything he tells them. Tomorrow he's going to tell them that they must go to war for fuel to survive." Deathsport (1978)

unintended monolith jump scare

"Memorial Center", huh? maybe there's a silver lining here

*woman leaving Safeway with a small dog on a leash, in a sing-song voice to the dog* Are you allergic to people's bullshit? Are you? I know I am.

"The board is implied. If you show the board, you limit the imagination. If you don’t show the board, anyone could be playing Mastermind at any time. In a limo. In a bunker. On a yacht while plotting the downfall of a minor principality."

what a delightful surprise upon arriving for my third (and last) final exam of the term!

one of the funniest pieces The Onion has done all year, and it's been a GOOD YEAR. theonion.com/oprah-pursue...

I, for one, think it's beautiful that the Georgia band plays "Battle Hymn of the Republic" when the Bulldogs score a touchdown. 🥹

what I would like to be seeing right now versus what I am seeing right now 😔

Moon as an outdoor Christmas tree topper

Wow. The AEA has issued a life time ban against Larry Summers. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

🤯

*bottle of wine optional --area teetotaling YIMBY

You've just died. The 6th photo in your gallery is what kilt you Between a (potentially exploding) cauldron's brew or lack of sleep due to an addictive tabletop game, the latter seems more plausible for me. (unsettlingly plausible, tbh)

"ASSORTED"

Why yes, I would like a 14 hour adaptation of Dune by a mentally unstable surrealist who hasn't read the book

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

Well I was born an original sinner. I was borne from original sin. And if I had a dollar bill For all the things I've done There'd be a mountain of money Piled up to my chin

If nothing else, the LLM revolution is a great opportunity to *choose* to distinguish yourself - schools, governments, authorities of all kinds are telling people to check out, but you really don’t have to.

There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK! COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

scrolling up, my sadness for my country was eclipsed by my relief that this post wasn't about bamboo

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists. #econsky #news #harvard