Upbeat Former Prof

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.

1. babies' smiles
2. the quiet just before dawn
3. OK Go music videos

i was told it'll be fine if tomorrow's is Metamucil!

tried drinking the recommended 72 oz of liquids a day and i have to say, ugh

the discourse deserves its own Bristol Stool Chart

just once i want to hear Johnny Gilbert introduce Gerard Depardieu

What's Hannibal Lecter's favorite sandwich?

Leg salad

"Clarisse."

"Doctor Lecter."

"Have the lambs stopped singing 'Never Gonna Give You Up'?"

TFW you look at your Outlook calendar and realize it looks the work of Piet Mondrian

is this because someone pointed out that Pretty Hate Machine dropped in 1989? 🤣

Bow down
To Leonardo’s oeuvre
You’re on a day trip
To the Louvre

I have no idea if the new F1 cars are actually *good*, but the teams clearly haven’t optimized battery strategy yet and that means for now we have a new element of chaos to make racing more interesting!

I had to resign from my job at the law firm because I'd get a flare-up of eczema every time I touched some paperwork.
Luckily it's not serious; the doctor said it's just contract dermatitis.

(working on impedance matching Office365 with Obsidian)

hahahaha take THAT, Microsoft Power Automate!

yes, you made me stay up all night just getting the basic idea working.

but on the other hand, i stayed up all night and i have the basic idea working.

(in my head this sounded like a real, "YOU'RE locked in here with me" bit. Alas!)

@vortexegg.com "the slop comes from the heart" is exquisite

i once led a trivia team to nationals but before the event the organizing company filed for bankruptcy so we never got to go.

The cover of Enigma's first album, MCMXC AD

could be worse! for example, here's mine

and people who like computers have a way of thinking that they can see everything in the world through a computer

the night before D-Day, British and American airborne divisions went on a big ponti raid

this has gotta be a potato bun, right?

yikes, this discourse is staler than last summer's potato chips in the beach house

if i had to make a list of "books whose impacts on me have been far greater than i could have predicted,"

Goldratt's "The Goal" would be near the top of the list

Stephen Colbert's commencement address to Knox College ends with: Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying "yes" begins things. Saying "yes" is how things grow. Saying "yes" leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say "yes." and that's The Word.

Stephen Colbert's 2006 commencement address to Knox College

Congratulations to them both! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.

agree. the lessons in the ones i took still inform my actions 25+ years later. i wish I'd taken more.

i want this television show so much

37 million years old whale spine found in the hot dunes of Egypt. This is a complete skeleton, the first-ever find for Basilosaurus, a large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale uncovered in Wadi El Hitan, preserved with the remains of its prey.

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