I'll have to take another selfie there after a few more months of growing out my hair...

This Wikipedia page is *amazing*, by the way:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_o...

Romance languages preserve more of these associations.

Spanish, for example:

DOMINGO: the Sun ☉︎
LUNES: the Moon ☾
MARTES: Mars ♂
MIÉRCOLES: Mercury ☿
JUEVES: Jupiter ♃
VIERNES: Venus ♀
SÁBADO: Saturn ♄

The names of the weekend days have other origins:

DOMINGO: the Lord's day
SÁBADO: Sabbath

We retain only three of these in English:

SUNDAY: the Sun ☉︎
MONDAY: the Moon ☾
TUESDAY: Mars ♂
WEDNESDAY: Mercury ☿
THURSDAY: Jupiter ♃
FRIDAY: Venus ♀
SATURDAY: Saturn ♄

The remaining four (Tuesday through Friday) come from Norse mythology:

Tyr/Tiw
Odin/Woden
Thor
Frigg/Freyja

If you're wondering: "Hey, when is *Mars* Day?"

Every. Single. Tuesday.

Since (*at least*) antiquity, each of the seven days of the week has been associated with one of the seven classical "planets" (i.e., things in the heavens that move across the sky with respect to the background stars).

😁

(Admittedly, not my cleverest joke.)

selfie of Mike Urbancic (a bearded, middle-aged white guy) wearing a red button-up shirt over a green T-shir that says "Mars Perseverance". he's sitting in a large open space inside the Erb Memorial Union (EMU) at the University of Oregon. above his head in the background is a large light suspended from the high ceiling in the shape of the Oregon O logo. the position behind his head from the perspective of the photo makes it look like a halo.

Happy Earth Day from office hours at the EMU!

Can confirm.

still from the intro credits of Square One Television, with the logo for the show centered in a '80s motif background of brightly colored triangles and squiggles in an aqua field

Elijah Wood as the character Fritz Garbinger in The Toxic Avenger (2023). in a rural area outside in the sun, a hunched-over man with dark, scraggly hair and a pallid complexion with dark, sunken eyes is wearing a black vest over a long-sleeved white shirt, and gazing at someone with a troubled look while holding a gun in his right hand.

I had that set when I was a kid!

I remember assembling it. 🥰

I kid: it's clearly just a cynical money grab.

Are the screenwriters for Doomsday unfamiliar with the concept of a flashback?

Or a retcon?

Maybe he thinks they're talking about magazines.

Amazing work!

Are you familiar with the Easter egg in the pink panel of the original set?

bsky.app/profile/urba...

A color illustration of 7 labrador retriever dogs, in different poses, around the same size. One dog after the other gets more brown in shade, beginning with a yellow lab, ending with a black lab. The title is "Chocolate Lab Varieties." Under neither each dog it says: 0% Cocoa - "White Chocolate." 20% Cocoa - "Milk Chocolate." 38% Cocoa - "Semisweet Chocolate." 55% Cocoa - "Dark Chocolate." 72% Cocoa - "Bittersweet Chocolate." 85% Cocoa - "Bitter Chocolate." 100% Cocoa - "Baking Chocolate."

A black and white illustration of 7 labrador retriever dogs, in different poses, around the same size. One dog after the other gets darker in shade, beginning with a yellow lab, ending with a black lab. The title is "Chocolate Lab Varieties." Under neither each dog it says: 0% Cocoa - "White Chocolate." 20% Cocoa - "Milk Chocolate." 38% Cocoa - "Semisweet Chocolate." 55% Cocoa - "Dark Chocolate." 72% Cocoa - "Bittersweet Chocolate." 85% Cocoa - "Bitter Chocolate." 100% Cocoa - "Baking Chocolate."

New Illustration: "Chocolate Lab Varieties"

Every lab is a chocolate lab, just with varying amounts of cocoa in its color.

I sub'd this to The New Yorker too, but they didn't bite.

NOTE: Dogs not actually chocolate.

I just greeted two crows by saying "good morning".

I was strolling southward and noticed the Sun wasn't yet at the meridian.

As far as I know, corvids don't observe daylight saving time.

Excellent point!

Vincent would have also survived if he had listened to Jules, recognized the second chance he'd been given, and--like Jules--abandoned the path he was on.

As I waited to pick up Kid 1 tonight at her job near campus, "(It's Not Me) Talking" by A Flock of Seagulls was playing in the lobby from her Bluetooth speaker.

I can't imagine any of the 15+ other college students present had ever heard the song elsewhere.

I smiled to myself: I have succeeded.

As I waited to pick up Kid 1 tonight at her job near campus, "(It's Not Me) Talking" by A Flock of Seagulls was playing in the lobby from her Bluetooth speaker.

I can't imagine any of the 15+ other college students present had ever heard the song elsewhere.

I smiled to myself: I have succeeded.

By sheer coincidence, I happened to rewatch Pulp Fiction last week (after last seeing it decades ago).

Vincent dying because Jules quit seems like an integral part of the (nonlinear) plot.

THE FINE PRINT | The Outer Worlds Song YouTube video by The Stupendium

The posters for off-world colonies look so great when we're kids!

But it's important to read the fine print.

youtu.be/vvANy49Kqhw?...

Be excellent to each other.

Party on, dudes.

a middle-aged white guy edited into Shinji's folding chair in an iconic scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion. he's looking down and holding his head with his left hand (which hides his face). he's holding a smartphone in his right hand, but the angle of the phone suggests that he's not looking at it.

I can't find it, nor can I remember it.

Although I look devastated in the image, when she took the photo I was actually thinking hard about a joke I was crafting about academic travel reimbursements.

Elegantly, this means the devastated look is real--just on a deeper level.

This edit by Kid 1 has since become a frequently used custom emoji reaction on the Discord server we're both on for tabletop gamers at UO:

bsky.app/profile/artm...

Be excellent to each other.

Party on, dudes.

not always...

bsky.app/profile/bril...

I will never stop wondering how the politics of church members would have evolved if McMullin had won Utah's electoral votes in 2016 and the rest of the GOP subsequently (and predictably) reacted with anti-Mormon fury.