Back in the late 80s, two things in particular were foundational to my PhD thesis: the IRAS satellite and the Arp Atlas. I loved just sitting and flipping through the Arp Atlas and trying to make sense of what I was seeing.
Haaah, I think it might have been your class where I decided to give up on making Apollo 11 references....
How many times have I seen just insane parameters derived from fits where half the data is measured values and the other half is -999 or 0 or some other non-data flag.
this is truly primo Tom Izzo Eats His Liver time
Phil's a theorist, amirite?
Poor damn Tom Izzo -- he's so mad right now....
sqrt(1-sin^2-par)
The look on my dog's face when I put kibble in her bowl at the same time I'm roasting a chicken....
Agreed, a one hour time change twice a year is really not that big of a deal.
When my Elderkid first got a bank account I asked her "so do you know how to write a check?" and she replied "no.... but I know how to cash them." 😂
University of Louisville football coach Bobby Petrino looking sour-faced while being interviewed on his football show "Inside the Cards with Coach Bobby Petrino", while the chyron underneath scrolls "Breaking News: University of Louisville Football Coach Bobby Petrino Has Been Fired....."
Kristi Noem stepping up to give a speech to a law enforcement conference at the same time that Trump posts on social media that he is shit-canning her reminds me of my all-time favorite moment in TV chyron history....
Watching me try to navigate Slack workspaces must be much like watching a cow try to do quantum mechanics.
My problem with texting is that if I keep autocorrect on, it changes half my correctly spelled words into garbage, but if I shut it off, the other half of what I type are fat fingered misspellings....
Sigh.
Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right." "Then, Dad," asked Will, "why aren't you happy?"
Still have never had a gut-punch while reading a book that's been as hard as this passage from Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes...."
Umm, aphelion is what?
(And yes, I get that I'm probably the only person in the world who routinely downloads monthly statements, but that's a different issue....)
OK, in the scheme of things this is minor, but I do appreciate when, downloading a monthly statement, I get a file that's named something like <company>-<acctid>-YYYYMM.pdf instead of hfebYUsg1.pdf.
An AI-generated image of a jack-o-lantern in front of some haunted houses with bats and a full moon in the sky....
Important public service announcement: Only 242 days until Halloween!
Haha, responding to a feedback poll from AAS Publishing. The poll has a preamble that says "We will not collect your name or other information unless you provide it yourself".
Then question #1 is "Please enter your name (*required)".
I'm just not a fan of it being dark until fuck-all AM.....
I'd rather keep switching than be stuck on permanent savings time.
Just re-watched "Sinners". My gosh, that was a spectacular movie.
A big batch of tuna noodle casserole, covered with parmesan cheese, in a white casserole dish, with a pasta ladle sitting next to it...
Why yes, I did just make tuna noodle casserole for dinner!
Post a jedi,wrong answers only.
Look, I’m not a pacifist. I genuinely believe that some wars are just and necessary (although they are always still horrific and no amount of justification lessens that horror or the moral weight that attaches to it). But this doesn’t meet any of the just war criteria. For anyone who wants a quick…
M dwarfs, the cockroaches of the Milky Way.
I am reminded of the 70s-era SNL Weekend Update episode where Garrett Morris delivered a special segment of news for the heard-of-hearing -- by putting his hands around his mouth and shouting.
"OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT....."
Spent the morning sawz-all-ing out a fence post to remove a dead deer stuck in a gap in our backyard fence. I'll spare everybody the pictures....
I hope everyone's day is off to a better start than mine!
