*chuckles nervously in “needed to hear this in 5th-8th grade”

And that, dear reader, is all three of the physics jokes I learned 20 years ago when my wife was in graduate school, applied to the relatively current state of the Strait of Hormuz.

Inspired: Assume a spherical Strait of Hormuz.

Tired: Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz (The market can’t tell if it’s closed or open unless it observes it, which it refuses to do.)

Wired: Heisenberg’s Strait of Hormuz Uncertainty Principle (We know exactly where all the ships say they are right now but we have no idea where they are going.)

Danhausen is the best thing going in many, many categories right now. The silliest and brightest light in a dark time.

Spurs gonna Spurs

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…”

[laudatory]

Oh my. The Flea album has a Wichita Lineman. Sung by Nick Cave. Oh my.

new_testament_final-FINAL.docx is the good one, I hear.

In my personal experience, ancestors who got married in a third location with worse records than the first two places I looked simply did it to mess with me.

Voted so hard today! (First day of early voting on a weekend at multiple locations in Loudoun County for the Virginia ballot initiative.)

5-0, so much winning. Except for the $1B Total payoff. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Let’s take the win.

I understood this reference.

Yay science

I mean, other than this website.

I need a note taking app where anything I write down is immediately deleted, is not stored anywhere, and no one ever sees it, just to quickly cement things into my brain and then move on.

Verification!

Promotional image for the event described in the post.

Advanced Electricity Data to Decarbonize the Grid, hosted by @electricitymaps.com, @gridstatus.io, and CleanCounts, at Station DC. I'll be there along with @waldoch.bsky.social and James Critchfield to lead the conversation, share data stories, and talk about what we can learn from the grid.

Do you like electricity data? Do you like measurement that leads to action? Do you like bagels and coffee? Will you be physically located in or around Greater Metropolitan Washington D.C. on Thursday April 23, 2026 at 9:00am?

Join us for a round table session at DC Climate Week: luma.com/6vih3q0v

Cognitive dissonance in space

I can still smell the Holsum bread factory tour.

Alabaster DePlume - "Don't Forget You're Precious" YouTube video by International Anthem

youtu.be/rXE2WceZCsQ?...

NASA’s Artemis II crew experience total solar eclipse from space From the perspective of the Orion capsule, the moon will fully block the sun’s disk for nearly an hour

I never use this phrase, but I'm making an exception:
JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

Whatever happens next, we’ll always have that jar of Nutella.

Was kinda hoping there was an Interstellar-style light speed docking ship thingie behind the moon, but then again, maybe there was and they managed to get back to the same time in that 40 minutes and are bringing back something cool?

I am a Wilco (The Song) enjoyer, but Red Headed Stranger lurking there in the middle is going to mess you up. Bring tissues. Maybe whiskey, if that’s your preference.

“Good news, kids! It’s Infrastructure Week!”

Do you want Germany and France in your mentions? Because this is how you get Germany and France in your mentions.