yellowstoneten

a basketball game on a court with four 3-point lines: —a black line, which is so short it intersects with the free throw circle, i think for high school play —another blue line about a foot farther, which i think is the old women's 3-point line that isn't used anymore? —an orange line about a foot farther than that, the actual 3-point line used for this game —the white NBA line about 2 feet beyond that, it almost interferes with the game's giant mid-court logo

It's time for the MEAC championship game and its unrivaled variety of 3-point lines.

I think the orange one is the real arc for this game but i personally think they should all be worth slightly different values (2.2 points, 2.7 points. 3 points, 3.5 points)

[Cueball is standing in front of a whiteboard with both arms raised holding his palms up towards and unseen audience. A person from the audience talks to him from off-panel. The whiteboard shows an Euler diagram with two large circles overlapping in the middle and a third smaller circle overlapping only the top right part of the right circle. There are lots of illegible text on the board. Three lines of text are in the left circle only, one line is in the shared part of the two circles, two in the bottom part of the right circle, two lines in the overlap with the small circle and one line only in the small third circle. Above the circles are two more lines of illegible text and above those a large heading and one readable word below that, just above the first illegible text:] Venn Diagram of Off-panel voice: Actually, that's an Euler diagram, because- Cueball: Come onnnn. Cueball: Everything is named after Euler. Euler's constant, Euler's function. Cueball: Can't we let John Venn have this? Off-panel voice: No. Off-panel voice: Also, numbers are now "Euler letters."

relevant xkcd:

why are bees doing brutalism

is it someone's cousin named Tom who is teaching the archery? or are we learning archery because of Tom (who, presumably, we might need to hit with arrows)?

"heavy cream: *technically* it's not butter!"

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

i've been fortunate enough to have one flight upstairs on an LH 747-400 (from FRA to JFK, in 2022) - it was funny, i almost forgot that there were another 300+ people downstairs flying along with me!

(also, the only time in my life i've eaten goose)

it's okay, they deserve it

"my most atheist phase"

so... your athiest phase?

(sorry)

I don't care if Monday's bad
Tuesday, Wednesday, makes me sad
Thursday how'd I get this mad
it's Friday I'm online 🎶

i have not, i'll have to check him out!

it would be interesting to see research on how accurately musicians can play various N-uplets. like, evenly-paced triplets are easy, but quintuples are harder, and tbh i only ever guessed at a septuplet...

tangent - one case that comes to mind where height *did* matter - the composer Rachmaninoff was 6' 6", with a hand span to match, and he could cleanly play *12ths* on the piano

apparently some of his pieces are *very* difficult for small-handed pianists

A woman in a light purple wig sits in passenger seat of zamboni, holding a banner which states "no ICE, no more, no kings, no fear" in same font and colors as Minnesota Frost team iconography.

Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game.
No ICE
No War
No Kings

No Fear.

i have to get on a 747-8 soon, after my a340 jaunt last weekend it's the one still-in-service 4-engine airliner i still need to log a flight on

Enough is enough, is enough Give the fascist man a gunshot Enough is enough, is enough Give the fascist man a gunshot Trying and trying again to get this damn thing done It can't done, come shoot the fascist with a gun 'Cause it's stopping us from unity, we cannot see reality Just vanity insanity, fusion cannot stand it see No man fascist man will ever get me outta the land So understand Fusion plan to stop them with a bang We sang and sang to make the people all unite Not fight but fight because the leaders don't think right You burnt us in the past, you know it won't happen again So black and white take a stand and all try to defend All of the people and the children who are living in the past Just blast and blast don't make the fascist man last

from Chumbawamba's previous highest-performing single, "Enough is Enough" (with Credit to the Nation):

"An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion."

snrk

i hope we all have a good weekend and our enemies get struck by lightning

i'm just a big fan of trains for travel, you know? t4t as the kids say.

a hight split-flap display board in Terminal 1 of Frankfurt airport

i flew out of Frankfurt last Sunday, and they've got a *massive* one

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote

but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

a car being loaded onto a cargolux 747 through the nose door

a car being loaded onto a cargolux 747 via the side door, aft of the wing

sometimes car go cargolux

bsky.app/profile/djmo...

type i or type iv? 🤔

Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

🎵... a man whose allegiance / is ruled by expedience 🎵

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 69 (nice): THE CRASH AT CRUSH YouTube video by Well There's Your Problem Podcast

relevant @wtyppod.bsky.social episode:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4W...

Trapped moose running past us YouTube video by accrho bob

thinking of this classic from early YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEh...

They're going to fuck the oil

On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

It's about 1 km tall.

If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

what's the best place to grab a meal at seatac?