The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.
The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.
When I was a kid, I was terrified of the crocodile 🐊 in Peter Pan, because he was a bad guy AND he was Captain Hook’s—also a bad guy—enemy. This confused and upset me.
This is a post about Maul: Shadow Lord.
No app can interrupt the sound of another app.
If I’m listening to a book and playing a game, book’s sound wins, even if an ad comes on.
Happy 55 years, Lucasfilm 🥳
George Lucas started the company on this day in 1971 🗓️
When I was a kid, I was terrified of the crocodile 🐊 in Peter Pan, because he was a bad guy AND he was Captain Hook’s—also a bad guy—enemy. This confused and upset me.
This is a post about Maul: Shadow Lord.
If they want to blame anyone blame dear leader and Greg Abbott for starting it.
“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.”
greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/h...
Don't know that I fully buy the idea that detailed movie descriptions + transcribed dialog are the same thing as illegal adaptations, but do think that the way people chase engagement by posting spoilers has gotten out of hand
One of my very favorite parts of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking:
..."Well, four times a day."
One of my very favorite parts of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking:
..."Well, four times a day."
At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron
We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...
A chart from the New York Times Who's Winning the Cash Race In Some Top Senate Contests? Texas James Talarico $27.1 million John Cornyn $2.7 million Ken Paxton $1.7 million Ohio Sherrod Brown $10 million Jon Husted $2.9 million Maine Graham Platner $4.1 million Susan Collins $2.9 million Janet Mills $2.5 million Georgia Jon Ossoff $13.8 million Mike Collins $1 million Derek Dooley $648,943 Earl Carter $439,817 Alaska Mary Peltola $8.6 million Dan Sullivan $1.7 million North Carolina Roy Cooper $8.4 million Michael Whatley $3.2 million
I almost always assume Texas dems are in the hole big time on cash, and this a pleasant surprise. No idea if this will hold, but it's nice that Paxton and Cornyn have to waste treasure beating each other up too.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
@grahamdalorian.bsky.social, walking into the room.
Me: So it says here bees 🐝 DO poop!
G: *eyebrows raised*
Me: We had to look up whether bee poop was honey or something else. Someone’s entire honey 🍯 eating future was on the line. Fortunately bee poop ISN’T honey.
G: Thank god.
any advice from writers for when you desperately need to start writing something but you can't because you're terrified of it being terrible
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Good luck!!
AI has almost completely invalidated online instruction, which once held a ton of promise. It can still be saved, but only if faculty are willing to do a whole lot more work for no additional pay.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
At home my marriage strengthened. I discovered that I really am partnered with someone with whom I am very compatible.
I missed social interaction and day to day contact. I missed the rest of my family. Christmas 2020 sucked. I’m glad K was too young to have suffered social isolation.
My life changed fundamentally in tons of ways, and it’s hard to assign the root cause of each change with which event.
I do think in terms of before and after the pandemic at work. But in my personal life it’s more about the kids.
At work, I was in the thick of it, and thrived professionally.
For me COVID was bookmarked by two births: my niece in late 2019 and my son in early 2022.
It started when she was about six months old, and we started emerging when he was about the same age.
I can’t really articulate what changed in my life because of the pandemic because of the kids’ arrival.
Houston has a similar problem.
A small child looks at a hexagon aquarium with a beta fish in it. The aquarium as a pineapple, a treasure chest and some fake grass and white and blue glass on the bottom.
My 4 year old kiddo got his first pet today. He named his new betta fish Cookie and is learning basic responsibility. We made a feeding calendar with fish stickers, and he’s absolutely thrilled.
To be fair, we never actually did go through with the gladiator idea.
Calendars decorated with fish stickers. The top says “Cookie’s Food”. Some fish stickers intended to mark off days are on top of the calendars.
I made some calendars so Kanan can keep track of when he feeds Cookie. Hopefully this will help him with grasping days, weeks, months. He knows them conceptually, but this may be more concrete.
He's pretty thrilled about this. He told his cousin, who immediately also wanted a fish. Her parents had to do some fast explaining about living vicariously through others.
Cookie's predecessors are
🐟Ferdinand, murdered by someone who went on to be a AUSA (put in a freezer during a party and forgotten) in 1999ish
🐟Maurice, (see obit below) died of shame of being put in a pickle jar in 2002
🐟George, victim of Hurricane Rita evacuation in 2005
A purple and pink beta fish swims in a hexagonal tank with blue and clear glass on the bottom, a pineapple house, a treasure chest, and pink fake grass. A little boy gazes adoringly at the fish.
Kanan got his first pet of his own! This is Cookie, a beta fish via the PetSmart across the parking lot from Target. Kanan decorated Cookie's tank yesterday and got it ready for the new arrival and spent a good 10 minutes picking him out.
Welcome Cookie!
She’s gonna own the fence and the rest of their property when this is done.
Tree Law! Tree Law!! Tree Law!!!
(Chant three times for treble damages.)
She’s gonna own the fence and the neighbor property when this is said and done.
