the Lone Futurist
@thelonefuturist.bsky.social
Sleep No More is ending in July, apparently. Pity.
It is, to date, the only Shakespeare adaptation wherein an actor spoon-fed me tea.
I think that's acceptable, given the frame story for the season of an older Riker viewing a record of the events in the holodeck.
(He got his honorary doctorate from IU NW; I'm only guessing he gave a speech.)
Imagine going to a satellite campus of IU and having him as a commencement speaker.
I'm not impressed with many honorary doctorates, but I'm happy Captain Sisko got one.
My commencement speaker was the widow of the former governor, whose speech seemed to mainly consist of "Wow, technology these days. Lots of stuff we didn't have when I was growing up."
Sir, we're going to need photos and/or descriptions if you've a cat.
John Green saying that his high school essay ragging on The Great Gatsby was probably him screwing up as a reader reminds me that in high school I wrote an essay declaring that 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was self-contradictory pablum. Sometimes we're right, even in high school.
This would be interesting if it comes together. From sea to shining sea.
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(Quick Wikipedia crawl) Ah, I see.
Had Purdue in mind, but apparently that's changed a couple years ago.
Novel use case for LLMs. (To me, at least.) @theophite.bsky.social
*extremely* closely monitored creation of "wrong" answers for multiple choice questions is the home-run answer for me.
i imagine this is what a great deal of your conversations look like
This song and music videos are both a Swedish.
ionnalee VS iamamiwhoami - GONE remix
ionnalee VS iamamiwhoami #educationalnew album EVERYONE AFRAID TO BE FORGOTTEN released feb 16 http://www.ionnalee.comspotify https://open.spotify.com/artist...
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Hmm. Menomena is back with music after 12 years off, with all three members again.
Good to hear them again, fingers crossed for a full length album.
As far as I've seen, current devices that do multi-point usually only pair twice, but there's at least one device that pairs to three.
I want my next set of earbuds to have Bluetooth multi-point for like 10 devices. Let me contact them to everything I might need to listen to, then let them decide which audio to play based on what's in range and what's playing sound.
Grandpa Simpson told the story about tying an onion to his belt in 1993. Today, the equivalent would be talking about the time Grandpa Simpson recounted tying an onion to his belt.
Chive cakes in every Thai restaurant.
Hanami Dango in every Asian market.
There was an article written once warning business owners that there are people out there who'll passionately love a thing and evangelize it, but no one will listen to them and there won't ever be sales outside that niche.
That's me, again and again.
Give me back Runa Guayusa bottled teas.
IIRC, the author had lived abroad in Japan and claimed to have heard the story from a Chinese person living in Japan near her.
The story isn't known apart from her telling and doesn't seem very Chinese... so maybe she made it up herself or the guy did or it's a Japanese story about China.
Also, Venus is (from what I've heard) easier and faster to travel to.
What about Venus cloud cities? From what I understand, you can get basically normal temps, pressure, and normal-ish gravity on a Venusian airship. You must have to deal with drifting sulfuric acid mist.
But Paul. They popularized Tang. Think how much scurvy was prevented.
Shapes of Fear, Maynard Dixon
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Shapes of Fear - Maynard Dixon - Google Arts & Culture
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Some good paintings.
The Painter of the Hole I, George Grosz
It's in my old neighborhood, albeit in an earlier era! But the whole characters - main characters! - are just unidimensional stereotypes and that's the joke every time they wander into frame.
And the laugh track is painful.
It is good, but it also has a nonlinearity problem towards the end, where I think the episodes were shuffled or dropped from continuity altogether.
Found the USGS's take on things: apparently unconvinced yet not wholly dismissive.
USGS says: People are probably usually mistaken when they report booming before/during earthquakes, but people keep reporting it and it usually happens in the northeast for some reason and possibly maybe shallow earthquakes could be audible somehow? 🤷♂️
USGS says: People are probably usually mistaken when they report booming before/during earthquakes, but people keep reporting it and it usually happens in the northeast for some reason and possibly maybe shallow earthquakes could be audible somehow? 🤷♂️
I also heard the booming of the original quake a few seconds before and after I felt it.
Obviously some of this must be based on my location/surroundings (the aftershock was just a generic jiggle of something, though I've no idea what was rattling enough to make noise).
But what was the sound of the original quake from?
Is it strange that I heard the quake and its aftershock?
Like, I felt the quake, sure.
But it also sounded like the booming of a car passing with the bass up?
And the aftershock sounded like the audio they play in the first few seconds of an earthquake in movies?
Once had a cabbie that swore he could tell political affiliation by what someone called DCA. "It's always either 'Reagan' or 'National'."
Told him I've always called it "Reagan National". "Ah, bipartisan!"
Time to put sulfur back in the fuel of the capitol subway.
About half the ads I get on Twitter these days are meant to benefit Republicans. But for some reason, "political ad" is still a category for reporting an ad there, so I report every one.
(I assume it's not enforced, though, at least not against Republicans.)
I have "a favorite band" in the following countries:
1) Japan
2) China
3) Sweden
4) South Africa
5) Ireland
6) France
That... might be it. Several bands I like are international in membership, but I mostly bucket those as American, as that's where they tend to meet.
Anyway, today they've been a band for 10 years. You shouldv have a listen.
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