Barry (Eternity Boy)

Damn yeah I also did not like 2001

iconic and canonized but just... not a good movie

The post was dead the moment it sold to Bezos - it was only a matter of time unfortunately

It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.

walking around a rural hardware store pretending to give a tour: "this aisle has supplies for 'fly fishing' where people tie this little garbage together to trick, and then catch, the fish"
11 Japanese tourists in my head: "OOOOOHHH, Hai, Hai 🙇 fly-fishingu"

Hey it's me, your fleeting moment of lucidity - you've been compartmentalizing again

could the ottoman army have stopped fusion era miles davis?

don't be ridiculous

I am learning so much about George Washington Carver right now, inventing the peanut is by far the least impressive thing he did

Ms Barich was right, we should all be talking about this - 100 different uses for the peanut? This is the work of genius

I was taught that George Washington Carver was a central pillar of American history and I'm struggling to just let that go - the man invented peanut butter, that's like inventing bananas

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Seeing fireworks as a kid:
"Wow these sure are beautiful and exciting, I love the colors and sounds"

As an adult:
"Our culture is irredeemably deranged"

WC3 custom games was something really special - incredibly fertile ground for experimentation

I have been having the best dreams this week - last night I dreamed I went spelunking in an Airbnb

And before that I was carefully carrying a little bowl that our cat was liquid in - just two eyes blinking up at me from the fur as I tried not to spill him

Saw new kinds of fluorescent lichens last night :) these vibrant blue ones

Was a big hit with the folks on the Olympic peninsula

I actually love love love seeing languages evolve in real time

Family gc evolved into everyone texting emoji strings to the weens who can't read yet - cool shit happening at the forefront of linguistics

Trying to be nostalgic in a small town: "This used to be a rite-aid"

He's the antichrist in, like, a literal sense

There we go, that's the one, thank you

Do you have anything more... "Beetlejuice"

For best results, use a 365nm LED with a visible light filter (a ZWB filter) - this actually makes a big difference & makes things much more vibrant

You can take a black light and walk around in the woods at night and the fluorescence makes it feel like the movie avatar - here's some of the stuff we found the other night

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.

You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

Insane

Hermeto "Brincando de Corpo e Alma" - Mistérios do Corpo YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal

"what have you been up to lately"
me: youtu.be/mAOKGrOAgDw?...

Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985) YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal

Next time you feel neurotic just remember that this is what you're supposed to be doing with your precious life youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

"her" would be a perfect film to parody right now - it's just about losing your job and applying to linkedin easy apply listings for weeks while falling in love with a sycophant grok waifu with a goldfish memory