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Kevin Jolly, PhD

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · Nov 15

Good Morning! I’m Kevin and I just wanted to share my interests:

🐶 Dogs
🍞 Baking
🕹️ Retro Gaming (NES/SNES)
📊 Data Visualization
🖼️ Art (Dutch Golden Age)
📖 Reading (Anything!)
👷 Legos
🏃 Running (Half Marathons)
🤘 Music (Indie / Metal)

Hope there are cool people with similar interests here!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21h

Very glad things are getting better for Oscar!

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21h

All things pass, even the bad times. It will get better. Stormy seas make strong sailors, as they say.

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21h

Big congrats - good on you and keep getting better, every day! Big personal W!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 21h

I was watching your struggle and felt so bad for you in it. Hope you did end up with some last minute Halloween costume though. AI queries for basic tracking/logistics or basic customer service should be the simplest thing for big corps.

Sympathy for you, through and through.

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 22h

Good on you for reporting them - our live chickens sat in a Cleveland shipping depot for a full 24 hours before being delivered. Two didn’t survive long after that. ☹️

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 22h

Another small Halloween tradition is letting the chickens carve a pumpkin that has been “started” for them. Legitimately, they did pretty good this year, but they are now sticking their heads in the hole they pecked, like some maniacal chicken dentist. #Halloween #backyardchickens

A brown chicken putting its head in a jack o lanterns mouth.

A chicken contemplating the jack o lanterns it carved by pecking at it.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 22h

Every Halloween, I reread The Whisperer in Darkness. It’s maybe 50 pages but I think it’s the best that Lovecraft wrote. Like so many of his stories, you know how it’s going to end but you’re internally screaming as the narrator follows his natural curiosity to its mind-breaking limits. #booksky

A photo of the first page of the Lovecraft story, The Whisperer in Darkness.

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 22h

Got that Luxray from a Wonder Pick from you, so thank you! I did a 10 pack and only got a single three diamond…nothing better. So I appreciate your luck!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 1d

Early voted the other day for local city and school board elections and let me tell you - if you need a break from US national politics, download the NextDoor app and listen to your neighbors scream about school levies and sewer bond issues. (I’m fine paying + $10/year for working sewers).

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 2d

Glad you’re here and have fully left Twitter!

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a nice collection…what about Ninja Gaiden III? Only played it once but remember it being really good.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a really good book, and your review was spot-on! See Hendrix live, if you can - he’s really entertaining!

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 5d

I gave a pair of Sleep Token albums repeated listens cause I hear they’re popular, but nothing sounded terribly interesting to me. Like it’s fine I guess for those who like it but it seemed just okay to me.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 5d

Graphically, absolutely perfect game at the time. (Everything else about it is perfect but all the little graphical details were something else. The mud that kicked up when Yoshi was running through swamps was my favorite little detail.)

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the best - one of the few holidays I don’t mind creeping (hehe) into the boundaries of the others.

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 5d

Stephenson is a great writer - his Baroque Cycle remains a favorite of mine. Never read Anathema, but I should. Hope it’s good!

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 6d

Went to the Pumpkins A Glow event at the Franklin Park Conservatory last night and had a blast - great seasonal fun and perfect October weather. Bring on Halloween! 🎃 #Columbus #Halloween

Giant green spider with very long legs in a dark field of pumpkins.

Lots of lot Jack O Lanterns in a dark field.

A train display featuring gourds and a little castle.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhh…sorry to hear your favorite shop is closing. That’s awful. Look out for deals, and a new favorite place I suppose. I should go do more supporting of my local game shop.

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

I just fear what would happen if it rains or is freezing cold…if no kids show up the wife and I will be eating candy for months…the dogs can’t have it and I’m pretty sure the chickens can’t either. 😬

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you…yeah, not the greatest but it meant a lot to see the city show up and cheer on the runners. So many more than I expected, and it meant a lot to see them!

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

Wasn’t there some easily missable item that would lock you out of your only healing spell if you didn’t get it before a certain point?

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Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

“Data should always tell a story,” they say. 😬

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

As a data person what’s with those two noticeable spikes downwards? That one is quite pronounced…

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

Haha, can’t blame you…if there are others around I keeping hamming-it-up at a minimum too.

Kevin Jolly, PhD @kevinjolly.bsky.social · 9d

Saw this in the book Top 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die just yesterday and recognized where you were standing.(Personally, I never got into KISS).

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