"Now see, you go back to the 30's, if you were a fan of the St. Louis Browns or the Philadelphia Athletics, or the Washington Senators, you didn't just come to the stadium when Babe Ruth was in town--you were ride or die for the local team."
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"Now see, you go back to the 30's, if you were a fan of the St. Louis Browns or the Philadelphia Athletics, or the Washington Senators, you didn't just come to the stadium when Babe Ruth was in town--you were ride or die for the local team."
Well, if I end up not printing it on A0, does it really matter? ;) See you there!
I can feel no sense of measure.
The conference I'm attending next week offers a service, but the deadline is today. Since the conference is on another continent, the idea of printing it here and schlepping it over isn't an attractive one. So it's either print it there or punt (or print it here as a stack of 8.5 x 11" sheets).
I’d have to have it handwritten in that particular script style that Russians use when writing in Latin characters. I’ll consider it, yeah.
Yeah, @woodney.bsky.social was talking about doing that, too. I was telling her to do it in typewriter font and a slightly lighter than black text color to really lean in. Maybe put a green and white striped background in to evoke the dot-matrix era?
yes, well. that does make the case for getting it done today stronger, at least.
i'm cycling between "i have to get this research poster done by today's printing deadline!", "maybe i could get this printed on-site myself?" and "will anybody notice if i just don't do this poster?". :\
It also is not at all clear that Trump is even physically capable of snapping his fingers at the moment, but I admit that's something of an aside and a whole other thing.
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You're a pal, Larry.
I am insufficiently familiar with GWAR to contribute meaningfully at this point, I'm afraid.
Some of the words first used in my birth year seem like they should be older, some seem like they should be newer, but the most unexpected one is that I'm the same age as the name for my profession!
Some of these sound like the titles of blogs, some of them sound like off-brand Olympic mascots, but we really dodged a bullet as a community by not having to ever deal with Uranus culminating in Turdus Solitarius.
Felis the Cat was a wonderful, wonderful cat.
I'm pretty sure Labor Day is the only one where it's possible, though I might need to think about it some more.
OK, so I have a very long story about going to a random Venice museum that I think I could tell here, but instead for now I'll just ask if that's a Jesú a Latte painting.
Threefer of the Smithereens on First Wave is great, and makes me miss Pat DiNizio all the more. How about I put a bit of them on your skyline, though: youtu.be/vqML7WbOun8?...
Maybe that TV guy will complain about it here. (I know he won't)
My spouse and I were just looking at the b-ref list of Yankees career leaders, and* there's a good-to-decent chance that Judge ends his career top-5 in most of the important offensive categories for the team. *Girardi doesn't want me writing this
He's not allowed to have skin-to-skin contact for at least three weeks following the experimental* hand-enlargement surgery. *and maybe botched? Many people are saying that could be the case.
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
He no doubt told Dave Roberts he should dress classier in the dugout during games, like Connie Mack.
Attn @swordsjew.bsky.social (obvi)
It's probably a willingness to rabidly encourage literal teenagers to risk lifelong consequences like brain damage and other debilitating injuries for the entertainment of fickle townies, alumni, and gambling addicts. Just a guess, though?
Oh, for sure. And it's their own damn fault for undermining any implicit credibility a president should just have.
Look, I think Occam's Razor probably still favors the dude still being above room temperature, but I don't see why the issue shouldn't be pressed. He's alive? Great, prove it in front of the press. He's just fine? Great, let him _publicly_ take the woman/man/camera/TV test he claims to have aced.
Ah, you know. Like a lot of folks, I think--if I could set current events aside and ignore them, things are going pretty well, but I can't just set current events aside and ignore them. :\
Actually, there's a connection to be made here, though I don't know if garden-variety transphobes could be reached by it: We're supposed to believe that these antivax fraudsters who are destroying our public health system are somehow aligned with current medical knowledge about sex and gender?
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I've always wondered if they wrote "The Fantastic Dr. Snippers" specifically to be a bris song, since it's become so entrenched culturally (to the point that it shows up on bar mitzvah playlists as a gag).
May his memory be a blessing.
No recommendations, at least right now, but I wanted to say that’s wonderful! :)
Or someone claiming to be Trump, anyhow.
Who would be the funniest journalist to break the news?
Awry and albeit. Those were my two.
oh snap
Yeah, I guess you could say I’m a bit of a ‘Disney adult’ (unable to climb a somewhat tall wooden pole even if it would be very rewarding to do so).
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Here's what I was thinking.
I was lucky enough to have the same kind of experience with The Police--they broke up when I was 14 or so, and due to various teenage misunderstandings I missed their 1986 reunion while many of my friends got to go. I made certain to see their 2003-era reunion. I wish you all the fun you need! :)
Counterpoint (not that I think it's needed here): If not for people developing expertise and others trusting it, humankind would all still be scratching out subsistence-level existences and dying young due to preventable causes. I think that's this psychopath's goal for us all, though.
I'm considering the vibe here last night something of an amuse bouche.
Well, or Melania’s double will.
The Great American Rage Quit (The Great American Table Flip?)
If/when it happens I could maybe be persuaded to lower a flag to half-staff, but only if I were able to raise this one above it and full-staff for a month.
pitchfork humor?
I've been saying it's experimental hand enlargement.
Even if nothing's going on, I can only imagine it'd be greatly demoralizing to see hundreds of millions (billions?) of people around the world, tens of millions (hundreds of millions?) of whom are fellow countrymen, rooting for a particular negative outcome for oneself.
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These are like the names you get if you ask AI to name Snow White's dwarf companions.
Or maybe that's not what you meant by a request.
I want you to post the remains on a pike outside your office as a warning to OPAG.
This is the second time* I've been moved to use this gif in the last 20 minutes, but I needn't necessarily bust out a long, vibey-from memory thread if unwarranted**. *the first was on work slack **the work slack situation also may not have fully warranted it, tbh
There's winners and there's losers, and she's south of that line.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to avoid it. Pirkei Avot, Chapter 2:16
Look, when scientists tell you that you shouldn't look at the sun without eclipse glasses, we're not kidding.
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Tom Clancy's DSM-5.
I am not Christian, but I am very confused as to what prayer "working" actually means in this context. It seems like it would be heretical for a Christian to think that their post-murder intervention would change a soul's destination. Do they think they're making these murders less frequent?
Others have said Abbey Road (my #1 overall pick), so I'll go with the White Album for my Beatles pick. Quadrophenia by the Who. Led Zeppelin II. Ziggy Stardust. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, and also Wish You Were Here by Badfinger. Layla. There's 7. :)
SPACE IS BIG IT'S COLD, IT'S DARK IT'S HARD TO FIND A PLACE TO PARK BURMA-SHAVE
OK, I type too slowly. :)
@whstancil.bsky.social I am curious if you think this (particularly the last paragraph) is similar to/adjacent to the theory of social media that you've been developing.
Well, not the _same_ way exactly, unless there are also Particular Harvard Professors in other star systems, but yes, in the same way dynamically I'd expect. ;)
Consider this skeet to be my encouragement to do so. :)
Which is why these things are so interesting, of course! Here's something that formed around another freaking star, blew that popsicle stand without (probably) being altered much, and then picking us to shed its volatile skin with.
I can't think of any, which is a subtly different answer than no. ;) It's very, very slow compared to c, of course, so even a freak, low-probability encounter with a micrometeorite wouldn't really affect something that size at a global scale, I'd think.
So, whether it formed at 5 km size, or is a fragment of something bigger that was collisionally disrupted in its original system, this seems very likely to be the first time it's experienced non-trivial mass loss due to being heated. I think it's probably been 5 km since leaving its system. 3/3.
This takes their work suggesting that the probabilities of one of our spacecraft encounters with a star look about the same as the probability of the Sun itself encountering a star, and assuming that also holds for other stars and natural objects, which seems like a reasonable assumption. 2/
It seems very statistically likely to me that this is ATLAS's first encounter with a star since its formation (and possibly its closest ever encounter with a star including its formation) based on this work by Bailer-Jones and Farnocchia: arxiv.org/pdf/1912.03503 1/
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It’s official. September 6th. From all across this nation. We march in D.C. Join us.
Appointments two weeks from now appear to be available here. We're going to be traveling, so grabbed one for a few days after our return.
Is that the story I think of as the "the fact the universe won't last that long isn't the problem" story?
COVID vaccine appointments are live on the CVS website.
I'd considered something along these lines, but I'm not sure it would actually _ruin_ that book.
I think this is the one, yeah.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy's Emma
It's much, much easier to deflect an asteroid away than hit a target with it. This is 100% for the best.
I am grateful for colleagues and friends around the world who are participants in planetary defense and planetary science. I am hopeful that American scientists will continue to do our part, but I can't predict the future. Either way, the asteroids will keep orbiting and folks will keep watch.
My condolences. May their memory be a blessing.
I was today years old when it hit me that the band name was "England Dan & John Ford Coley" not "England, Dan, & John Ford Coley" and I internalized that it only involved two people instead of three, four, or even five.
Pears.
I’m not going to disagree or try to change your mind, but this is also the right place to drop this for when you next have a half-hour to kill if you haven’t already seen it. youtu.be/kSwUzM_nTGM?...
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Helter Skelter in the streets, Honey Pie in the sheets.
Hear from mission scientist Colin Snodgrass in his interview with @earthskyscience.bsky.social talking all things Comet Interceptor 🚀☄️
OK, this is only tangentially related to this post per se, but...what if this is all side effects from experimental hand enlargement surgery? Or a targeted, but also experimental, hand enlargement gene therapy? That's what it is, right? Some experimental "medical" attempt to make his hands bigger?
Honestly, it's been Borderline almost continuously for the last 42 (!!) years. Holiday, True Blue, Secret, and Dress You Up have taken their turns, and Like a Prayer is an all-timer, but I think my favorite is Borderline.
Good for them. Mazel tov.