Desperately disappointed I never saw Danny Kaye’s Columbo

Yeah I just don't remember if it was a permanent exhibit or temporary when I saw it there a few years ago

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient. The ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences.

The SixTripleEight: No Mail, Low Morale On February 3, 1945, the US Army sent over 800 Black women overseas to England aboard the SS Ile de France. Their mission was unknown to them.

The US WW2 museum has (had?) a wonderful exhibit on the "Six Triple Eight", an all-black women WAC unit that cleared a 2-year backlog of undelivered mail in three months

www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Listening to the Artemis II livestream today there were multiple points where the only voices I heard were from three different women. The moon mission passed the Bechdel test with extra credit.

Truly one of the greatest characters ever written.

"I dreamed last night that I was clambering up a creek bank, which is often required of a drunk."

The very notion that a signature is somehow still considered a high accuracy identification today is astounding. It’s documentary phrenology.

I love Terry Pratchett more than any author that ever lived but if he was actively doing what Rowling is doing I would burn every book. I would be heartbroken and angry but the smoke would reach the heavens regardless

See also flamboyant traffic directing

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok

Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Image from Simpsons episode of George HW Bush at the Krusty Burger drive through asking "What kind of stew do you have today?"

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support HP rescinds European support call strategy due to "feedback."

The hardest working quotes you’ll see today are these quotes around “feedback”

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I don’t think it got much notice nationwide but Ruzevich in my district tried something that felt similar against Casten and did not do nearly as well at it, which I think could be comparatively notable as well

This is such a great under appreciated point of “cancel culture”.
I don’t think someone who does something like Biss did should be in prison, or jobless and homeless, but there must be SOME consequences, and “you have to work regular schmuck jobs like the rest of us” is such a minimal consequence

He also feared and loathed poor rural whites, I was fascinated to discover when I read through his collected works

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.
He looked at me as if I were stupid.
'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

Probably my favorite stretch of dialogue ever written. And to this day I’m unable to see the word “eddies” without internally giggling. And he hits it again like ten chapters later

RIP Rosie 💙

Said job was a Silicon Valley software company around the first tech bubble era

Over the course of 10 years at one job I had three coworkers who later killed or were killed by their spouse.

also Chris Hemsworth as Thor sometimes but extremely Chris Hemsworth in Ghostbusters

With slop bowl restaurants so popular, you'd think someone would catch on that stew is just a hot wet slop bowl

1. Tailgunner, Lumberjack, Janitor, Draftsman, General Contractor
2. Volunteer Firefighter (I'm sure he had other actual jobs but I never knew what)

Me: I tappy-tap on a keyboard with ample coffee supplies and grumble when the office is chilly

As of a few days ago I was still seeing some warnings like that in some episode descriptions

I also started a rewatch and have been cursed the number of times I’ve thought “is this vore?” against my will

Certainly could just be my bubble

I have a feeling that the left at large is also increasingly uncomfortable with the openly religious

What are the pipelines for these oratory skills today? Churches? Black churches?

If I was a governor I would be asking myself what Trump would do if Federal law required him to proclaim Obama Day