Did you know Stan Getz was the guy who invented 2FA and the European hotel lightswitch system?

It's that point of the semester where every conversation with faculty and fellow students goes something like,

"Hey, how are you?"

"Oh........... you know..........."

* thousand yard stare *

"Yup."

"Yup."

....
....
...

"Okay, well, hang in there!"

"You too!"

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Do people like scrapple, though? I know they eat it & feel some perverse sense of loyalty to it, but is that liking?

Don't put off your homework 'til the last minute, kids, especially if your homework involves significant computer processing time. My laptop sounds like it's about to take off into low earth orbit and my homework is no closer to being done than it was an hour ago.

A photo of a YMCA class schedule. One of the offerings is AQUA AI CHI

Man, they’re pushing AI literally everywhere these days, huh?

When I worked in a rat lab, we indexed depression by how long it took them to stop swimming when you put them in water. Rats are neutrally buoyant; when they give up, they float. 15 yrs later, I wonder how many trials w/a given rat will be valid. At some point, won't they figure it out & have fun?

A confederacy of dunces is RIGHT THERE

Today in nominative determinism, the electrician who came to the house was named Sparks.

Wild! The Mandela effect strikes again!

Wasn’t it a rabbit?

Riotous pink tree blossoms against the blue sky

Annual photo of the prettiest corner of campus

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Depluralize a movie: Crow, She Wrote

A screenshot of an email. The text up to the cursor says, "Sorry, I've been off my" and then in greyed out text, the predictive text next word reads "meds"

What I intended as I was typing: "Sorry, I've been off my computer all weekend."

What Outlook predicted I wanted to say:

Re-read the original Harry Harlow paper and it reminded me that when my daughter was an infant and absolutely captivated by lights, we called the elaborate light fixture in our kitchen The Wire Mother because it was the first thing she started to smile at.

And Sid Caesar, I think.

If you had asked me to guess what decade Sidney Crosby played hockey in, I would have guessed the 1930s. That is not a 21st century name.

Is your day $*&%(🤬?

Reminder that Cornell ornithology lab has bird cams to keep your desktop 🪷😌

www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/all-cams/

Nope. Loud.

The hill I will die on is that the muppets are a niche cultural phenomenon and if you missed it, they are just loud.

Thursdays are singles night - billed as Fail to Reject

If this grad school thing doesn’t work out I’m opening a nightclub called Voxel where the dance music is recordings from inside an MRI machine.

One of our lab members was talking about her dog who she suspected had a stroke - she said his bark changed.

Me: Oh no! Did he have dysARFria????

I tried to make a joke about Grice’s maxim of relation but the male duck billed platypus has venomous spurs on its hind feet

Hope you’ve got a cardigan and a 45 minute monologue on the pros and cons of all the area grocery stores

Really? I don’t speak Yiddish but they have the same vowels in English for me!

So the thing about the leprechaun trap that grinds my gears (in addition to its existence) is how it's just a blatant pyramid scheme -- you have put out a little money to lure the leprechaun in, and then when you catch it you're supposed to get its gold in return. Teach 'em young, I guess.

Today, from the prof: "Well, Socrates was certainly being ANNOYING..."

A screenshot from Canvas that reads “Code looks great -- maybe for aesthetics homogenize your font selection (e.g., use all Helvetica) so your output doesn't look like my Yahoo Geocities webpage from 2003”

A kid’s drawing tablet. It is black with a handwritten note in rainbow colors that reads “YOU are SO men”

A banner day for feedback tbh 😂