Depluralize a movie:

One Angry Man

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

This is so, so well-articulated.

Nice CFOP!

Sun peeks out over the UVA Rotunda

I have a programming joke.

If you want to know
I’ll tell it to you
Else
I won’t

Montaigne would like a word

Theater kids rule

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

I won my 3rd grade Flying Salukis paper airplane contest.

Sometimes I be listening to orchestral performances on YouTube, and I love when they pan to the percussion section and I see they've brought a bigass gong out like aw yeah it's about to go down

On the Street Where You Live Song by John Michael King I have often walked down this street before But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before All at once am I several stories high Knowing I'm on the street where you live

Such beautiful lyrics, made all the more charming if you imagine it’s Godzilla in love

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Photo of me as a very happy kid

This is who runs this account.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Breakfast burrito of leftover meatloaf, green beans and carrots with added egg and cheese. Tame by @scalzi.com standards (2 out of 5 on the Scalzi Burrito Scale), but tasty nonetheless.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

7. Troublemaker, by El Lissitzky, 1913

Haydn is more fun than Mozart

When a research library closes, we lose access to materials for sure, but we also lose access to the librarians, often subject matter experts themselves. Ask any researcher in any field about how much the staff at facilities like this have helped them.

Actually, the plural is “snickers doodle.”

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Kronos Quartet
Pete Seeger
Robyn Hitchcock
Sonny Rollins
Depeche Mode

What’s it do?

Old Man’s War plz

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

Working on a microhistory on the history of microhistories. #microhistory

If the World Series game goes to 2 a.m. it will be 1 a.m. again.