Oh, and Kamasi Washington

Or, you can catch them at King Gizz’s Field of Vision festival in Colorado, where they will (speculation here) likely team up for a set with King Gizz and Billy Strings.

So they are playing Newport Jazz along with… Thundercat, Flea and his jazz band (love his trumpet album, and the band includes Jeff Parker and Anna Butterrs??), HERBIE HANCOCK, and a ton more.

Funny fact. I was a kid in NY when Man Eater by Hall and Oates came out, right at the same time as the local news had (probably lightheartedly) covered a NYC sewer alligator story. I thought it was real, and I was convinced the song was about alligators that could attack when you were on the toilet.

What if there’s an alligator?

They’re nostalgic for the misogyny and racism.

We’d be calling aluminum “aloo-mini-um” and spelling “diarrhea” funny if George Washington hadn’t mandated variolation to protect troops from smallpox during the Revolutionary War.

I believe the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 is often cited as the first war in history where more soldiers died from combat than from disease. Then came WW1 where disease roared back as a top killer.

The only reason ppl publicly become Republicans these days is because they either need a pardon or don't want to be prosecuted for crimes.

Gravity of the Situation by Vic Chesnutt on Apple Music Song · 1995 · Duration 4:09

Did you say “Gravity of the Situation?” 😉
One of my favorite collabs of all time.

When I was in grad school I imagined my career would involve examining all of these scenarios. It turned out not to be for me for a lot of reasons. But it’s a big reason I enjoy following you. You’re like a counterfactual me with more math skills who didn’t get burned out 😂

Did I mention that Obscured by Clouds is Pink Floyd’s best album? Made to order for a crappy movie just before and during their early DSotM sessions.

It’s their Pink Floydiest album.

Contact network heterogeneity is an accelerant of transmission.

I 100% agree with you and also I’m totally psyched to go see this. 😂

French just got tired of making up names for numbers and were like, we’ll just do a bunch of arithmetic in our head instead.

Pie chart showing that 1 in 5 incarcerated people is locked up for a drug offense

This 4/20, we're thinking of the horrific impact that the U.S.'s war on drugs had on vulnerable communities.

Today, drug offenses still account for the incarceration of over 360,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system.

I saw you do the Mikado in Houston (1991?). It was epic. I was in high school and a huge Monty Python fan so this was need heaven. During “The List” you did a shout out to local news celebrity Marvin Zindler’s famous “Slime in the Ice Machine” line which had the theater roaring with laughter.

Regarding the color preference etc… We were just randomly slamming them up there. Actually it was my 13 year old. Some would fly back off the green and we’d have to go chase them down while she tried another one. So that makes it extra surprising on our end!

I totally agree about the “after the fact part.” The fact that something with a 1 in 120 chance happened at all is completely unsurprising. Billions of such events happen daily on the planet. The fact that this particular 1 in 120 event happened to me is incredibly surprising.

I don’t make the rules man.

I caught a grad student at the movie theatre last Sunday. I take my kids there to see Super Mario Galaxy and I see a grad student three rows up. I tapped him on the shoulder and told him he either leaves now no questions asked or I speak with his dissertation chair come Monday morning. He left.

We mostly talk about how the current gas prices just reflect the amazing quality of fuel that we are lucky to be able to put in our tanks. What a blessed times for our engine life.

Later we were puzzling over the clues for the order thinking it was for another puzzle. Dude comes on the speaker and goes, “yeah, so don’t worry about that, you already did that puzzle, and I’ve never seen anything like it.” Afterwards he even verified it was working right. We were just that lucky.

We didn’t even see the clue on the wall that showed what order the colors had to go—we just randomly putted them in—in the correct order on our first try!
Number of ways they could have gone in is 5x4x3x2x1=120. So a 0.8% chance of just getting it at random, and we did! 🥳

Probability nerds, prepare to be astounded! 😮 🤯
Had an amazingly unlikely event happen yesterday. We were at an escape room. One of the puzzles was that we had 5 different colored golf balls that we had to hit in a little putt-putt hole. Unbeknownst to us, they had to go in a specific order.

Don’t sleep on the Tarnished. They’ve got serious potential.

Wow! Bucket list critter for me.

Yay. And also as an aside, I hope that it would be harder to use screenshots from videos of me to make me look like as much of an absolute goon as you can make RFK look from literally thousands of available images.

White printed shirt with tons of little colorful bicycles on it.

Wearing this snazzy shirt out to dinner tonight in honor of tomorrow being Bicycle Day (IYKYK)