Today we said good bye to Tom Bombadil, who has been my friend for sixteen years and my housemate for six. A font of love, purring, and chill vibes, every day was better for having him in it.

Victoria Harbourcats hosting the Redmond Dudes this evening. Nice out-of-the-ballpark home run puts the Dudes on the scoreboard, 1-0, now bottom of the first. And the HCs just tied it. I never imagined I'd become interested in baseball in my 50s, but here we are.

"I will not be your slave!" "Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks" episode 2 (1967). #DoctorWho

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There have been a lot of bicycle innovations in the past 209 years, but few were more important than changing the saddle positioning.

My bicycle has been stolen. Lock & all. I feel as if some part of me has been taken. The first new bike I'd had since I was a teenager. Cycling has ever been a means of freedom & sanity for me, & I feel strangely aggrieved that *my* bicycle is being ridden by some person capable of bike theft.

Saw someone being offended because they are young and they shouldn’t have been expected to see RAIDERS because “it’s old.” Man, when I was 19 I had seen so many old movies, and I had to work for it. There could not be an easier time in history to pick up on seeing an “old”movie.

The congressional "Matlock"-cosplayer caucus does nothing to dispel appearance of American gerontocracy.

What’s your favorite Canadian sitcom?

"I am the BOSS. I'm all around you..." "Doctor Who: The Green Death" episode 4 (1973). #DoctorWho

Join us in wishing Ume safe travels on her next adventure! It’s hard to believe the tiny calf who arrived looking like a little “watermelon on legs” is now a confident, independent young tapir ready for her next chapter. Over the past year, we’ve watched Ume grow, explore, and capture many hearts. ❤️

Jun 8th 1998 - Peter Gibbons had a bad case of the Mondays and gets reminded about the new cover sheets on the TPS reports. Michael Bolton (not that one) tells the guys he could write a virus to rip off the company. 📽️📅 Office Space (1999)

Emma just said Jason Alexander looks like he’s wearing a Gary Busey skin suit in the Star Trek Voyager episode Think Tank and now I can’t unsee it

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

"BLUE LASER!!!!"

According to analysis of the uniform numbers and the play-by-play commentary of the baseball game shown on TV in the movie, Ferris Bueller took today off in 1985. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Watching "The Fellowship of the Ring," and as with my first viewing of it in the theatre, I'm frustrated by the memory of what's been cut---some of it inexplicable, like the explosion Gandalf adds to cover Bilbo's disappearance.

My planner says our appointment is in Samara.

Totally a GTA move. The driver is clearly a Los Santos veteran.

The world's largest dedicated space for illustration, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, the brainchild of celebrated the British illustrator, is all set to open its doors in London on June 5.

He should be summoned by the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs to answer for this.

"I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' they're out there. Janeway and Paris's space catfish offspring. Takin' 'er easy in the Delta quadrant for all us sinners in the Alpha." #BMovieManiacs #VOYSatNight

They keep trying to build Data Centers, but where are all the Lore Centers? 🤔

A friend pointed out that he and I both are older than Roy Orbison ever was, and I am staggered: I am Travelling Wilbury-old.

Since there isn't a Lower Decks version, I figured that Voyager was the most appropriate for this particular title.

"When they send one of yours a quote from The Hobbit, you send one of theirs a quote from The Silmarillion. That's the Chicago way!"

never relate more to a hockey player than when they lose their stick and continue to skate around pretending to help

Darmok AND Jalad In this economy?

Kahless will return glory to Southdale Mall! #TNGSunNight

"Venusian Aikido, gentlemen..." "Doctor Who: The Green Death" episode 2 (1973). #DoctorWho

There's a ton of data that adding bikes lanes & even removing car traffic altogether increases small business traffic & revenue. Even those businesses that opposed the changes mostly view them as extreme positive once in place.

#MonsterMonday #LooneyTunes Happy Monster Monday and happy birthday to Gossamer Monster who first appeared in the Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies short Hair Raising Hare on May 25th, 1946.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.

Locked in on taco bell

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

May 22nd 2020 - Tech billionaire Miles Bron hosted a murder mystery dinner party for his friends. 📽️📅 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

They named Baby Yoda... Grogu? GROGU?!

GOODFELLAS (1990)

Make this in EV form and take my money

Niche, but funny #startrek

One of the best disguises of all time