Kent Brewster

The Golden Gate.

Sunset against clouds in the tropics with some volcano-generated haze. Half the sun peeks out from behind a dark cloud, causing a sharp delineation in the sky.

On Kaua'i sometimes at sunset it becomes possible to see the joint between two adjacent map tiles.

Same; depth perception (any sport involving catching a ball) was a serious problem growing up.

$1BN = one hospital. We are dropping a hospital on them every day.

Mom's side: 35-year Pan Am airline pilot; dad's side: Stanford professor. (Dad's mom also taught at Stanford, which was a nine-day wonder in 1934.)

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* Robinson was 6'7" when he enlisted.

Given the Trump family's tendency to lie about their height and weight I will guess Barton's not actually 6'9".

Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral WASHINGTON—Carefully weighing the implications of his presence at a particularly tense moment in relations between Iran and the United States, President Trump told reporters Monday that he remained on...

“If I go, I think it’ll really make me look strong, like I’m fully in charge of this whole operation,” said President Donald Trump

Datapoint: we live on Kaua'i and the army of folks that usually fly in from Alberta have been absent this winter.

... and the root domain at littlegreenfootballs.com is timing out.

charles.littlegreenfootballs.com is returning a 403 error.

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

"A kratt was a creature formed from hay or of old household implements by its master, who then had to give the Devil three drops of blood to bring life to the kratt." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratt

Yep. Silicon Valley took shape around us over the years, gradually pushing out all the apricots from one of the two or three places on the planet where you can grow them commercially.

People ask if it was terrifying. It was, but it never actually happened, and there was nothing any of us could have done about it. School shootings, on the other hand, happen weekly, and could be ended if we would just vote to do so. I do not envy the current generation of kids in the USA.

Grew up in the 60s in Sunnyvale, CA a mile and a half from the Blue Cube, which we were given to understand was Ground Zero, the very first thing the Russians would clobber.

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I love this but I wish she'd quit Twitter. It's not good for your soul.

... and they're already running autonomous weapons.

More: we need to be the author of and first signatory on the worldwide no-autonomous-weapons treaty.

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@weratedogs.com this is Jack, our new little guy. He really, really, reeeeeealllly wanted to help collect eggs, so he took that basket right out of Mom's hand.

... and if it's not confirmed, it is canceled. None of this silence-equals-assent bullsh!t.

Tick tock, motherfuckers.

If you're writing anything for publication you should be using a monospaced font. (Also: e-mail has a dash, and Web site is two words, with a capital W.)

There Is No Antimimetics Department, by Sam "qntm" Hughes. Originally released in chapters on scp-wiki! scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics...

WTF GOOGLE!?!?

If they do screw around with PreCheck it will be in blue states only.

Also: Oxford comma, two spaces after a period, all punctuation inside the closing parenthesis.

Yes. Food should not smell like soap, and soap should not smell like food.

Can you please talk to Cory Doctorow about this?