davidkwatson.bsky.social
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Mathematician with some statistics. Increasingly Bayesian. Loves science and science fiction.
We had World Book and Child Craft too! AND my parents bought the World Book yearly supplements for years (decades, maybe?) afterwards.
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
We had World Book and Child Craft too! AND my parents bought the World Book yearly supplements for years (decades, maybe?) afterwards.
Calls like that can become a new level of stupid and frustrating like the time I got a call supposedly from my wife while we were sitting down eating dinner together.
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Calls like that can become a new level of stupid and frustrating like the time I got a call supposedly from my wife while we were sitting down eating dinner together.
What are you making with yours? I recently made a small batch of membrillo for the first time in years, and it was so good I wondered why I had ever stopped.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
What are you making with yours? I recently made a small batch of membrillo for the first time in years, and it was so good I wondered why I had ever stopped.
That is my favorite red lentil soup. Instead of using vegetable stock, I use water and add celery, bay leaves and a little extra onion and carrot to essentially make stock in the pot, and I like to use a little lemon zest with the juice.
It's great on a cold blustery day.
It's great on a cold blustery day.
October 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
That is my favorite red lentil soup. Instead of using vegetable stock, I use water and add celery, bay leaves and a little extra onion and carrot to essentially make stock in the pot, and I like to use a little lemon zest with the juice.
It's great on a cold blustery day.
It's great on a cold blustery day.
Out of curiosity, who gets the tongue and kidneys? Or do you not divvy up the steer to that extent?
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Out of curiosity, who gets the tongue and kidneys? Or do you not divvy up the steer to that extent?
One of my email addresses is at least that old and might possibly be 5+ years older. The other is somewhat younger, but still college-aged.
Yay living long enough to have old email addresses.
Yay living long enough to have old email addresses.
September 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
One of my email addresses is at least that old and might possibly be 5+ years older. The other is somewhat younger, but still college-aged.
Yay living long enough to have old email addresses.
Yay living long enough to have old email addresses.
I'm guessing you apprehend villains by enveloping them in giant tortillas, thus creating the criminal burritos you talked about the other day.
I have no idea what your superhero costume looks like, though.
I have no idea what your superhero costume looks like, though.
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I'm guessing you apprehend villains by enveloping them in giant tortillas, thus creating the criminal burritos you talked about the other day.
I have no idea what your superhero costume looks like, though.
I have no idea what your superhero costume looks like, though.
Wait, you wrap criminals in flour tortillas?
I did not know this.
I did not know this.
September 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Wait, you wrap criminals in flour tortillas?
I did not know this.
I did not know this.
Hey, me too! Quite rare for me.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hey, me too! Quite rare for me.
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So, that would make your house Beverfridge Manor? Sounds like the setting for a cozy murder mystery.
Or maybe it's Beverfridge Farms, like the cookie company, except for drinks.
Or maybe it's Beverfridge Farms, like the cookie company, except for drinks.
August 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
So, that would make your house Beverfridge Manor? Sounds like the setting for a cozy murder mystery.
Or maybe it's Beverfridge Farms, like the cookie company, except for drinks.
Or maybe it's Beverfridge Farms, like the cookie company, except for drinks.
Except for the math people, who have mostly gone to mathstodon.
On a side note, I also encounter Ars Technica much more there than I do here, which is strange to me.
On a side note, I also encounter Ars Technica much more there than I do here, which is strange to me.
August 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Except for the math people, who have mostly gone to mathstodon.
On a side note, I also encounter Ars Technica much more there than I do here, which is strange to me.
On a side note, I also encounter Ars Technica much more there than I do here, which is strange to me.
Do you live in a crooked house? Have anything else crooked? If so, I'm sure we can adapt the nursery rhyme to you.
August 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Do you live in a crooked house? Have anything else crooked? If so, I'm sure we can adapt the nursery rhyme to you.
Connecticut does have some really good pizza places.
New York has some really good pizza places (but also some of the worst ones).
Philly has some really good pizza places.
But the best pizza I've ever had has been in New Jersey.
New York has some really good pizza places (but also some of the worst ones).
Philly has some really good pizza places.
But the best pizza I've ever had has been in New Jersey.
August 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Connecticut does have some really good pizza places.
New York has some really good pizza places (but also some of the worst ones).
Philly has some really good pizza places.
But the best pizza I've ever had has been in New Jersey.
New York has some really good pizza places (but also some of the worst ones).
Philly has some really good pizza places.
But the best pizza I've ever had has been in New Jersey.
It's an Italian squash variety called tromboncino or zucchetta rampicante, depending on whether you care more about how it looks or how much the vines spread. I recently harvested 3 and need to figure out what I'm going to do with them.
August 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It's an Italian squash variety called tromboncino or zucchetta rampicante, depending on whether you care more about how it looks or how much the vines spread. I recently harvested 3 and need to figure out what I'm going to do with them.
The chest hair perfectly frames the pendant.
August 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The chest hair perfectly frames the pendant.
Ooh! Thought of another. On a plane to Florida, my wife sat next to and chatted with the game show panelist Kitty Carlisle.
June 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ooh! Thought of another. On a plane to Florida, my wife sat next to and chatted with the game show panelist Kitty Carlisle.
This reminded me of the Christine Lavin song "Harrison Ford."
One of the most innocuous 3-second celebrity interactions ever, immortalized in a 5-minute song.
One of the most innocuous 3-second celebrity interactions ever, immortalized in a 5-minute song.
June 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This reminded me of the Christine Lavin song "Harrison Ford."
One of the most innocuous 3-second celebrity interactions ever, immortalized in a 5-minute song.
One of the most innocuous 3-second celebrity interactions ever, immortalized in a 5-minute song.
At a D.C. bookstore, Ralph Nader and I approached the cashier simultaneously. I waved him ahead of me.
Got an ambush handshake from then Wisconsin senator William Proxmire at the Capital square farmers' market in Madison.
Got waved at by Roy Rogers in between the filming of his last movie.
Got an ambush handshake from then Wisconsin senator William Proxmire at the Capital square farmers' market in Madison.
Got waved at by Roy Rogers in between the filming of his last movie.
June 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
At a D.C. bookstore, Ralph Nader and I approached the cashier simultaneously. I waved him ahead of me.
Got an ambush handshake from then Wisconsin senator William Proxmire at the Capital square farmers' market in Madison.
Got waved at by Roy Rogers in between the filming of his last movie.
Got an ambush handshake from then Wisconsin senator William Proxmire at the Capital square farmers' market in Madison.
Got waved at by Roy Rogers in between the filming of his last movie.
Well, vive la difference, as they say.
June 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Well, vive la difference, as they say.
Speaking as someone who heard "Eat It" well before hearing "Beat It", I heartily agree. Weird Al could do a parody of Enya and it would be hilarious.
May 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Speaking as someone who heard "Eat It" well before hearing "Beat It", I heartily agree. Weird Al could do a parody of Enya and it would be hilarious.
Alternatively, he can slide naked down a razor into a vat of alcohol (a phrase I remember from my adolescence that I haven't had occasion to use until now).
Between him and Joe Rogan, the roided up meatheads are doing a lot of damage.
Between him and Joe Rogan, the roided up meatheads are doing a lot of damage.
April 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Alternatively, he can slide naked down a razor into a vat of alcohol (a phrase I remember from my adolescence that I haven't had occasion to use until now).
Between him and Joe Rogan, the roided up meatheads are doing a lot of damage.
Between him and Joe Rogan, the roided up meatheads are doing a lot of damage.
On the song record single, the flip side song was Put the Bone In, supposedly about a girl asking a butcher for scraps for her injured dog. It's so bad you can hear a studio musician making a disgusted noise at one point.
March 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
On the song record single, the flip side song was Put the Bone In, supposedly about a girl asking a butcher for scraps for her injured dog. It's so bad you can hear a studio musician making a disgusted noise at one point.
Brand New Key by Melanie ("You've got a brand new pair of roller-skates…") and Toni Basil's Hey Mickey do that for me. Fortunately they don't get a lot of circulation anymore, but this was not the case for a couple of decades.
Oh, and Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun as well.
Oh, and Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun as well.
March 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Brand New Key by Melanie ("You've got a brand new pair of roller-skates…") and Toni Basil's Hey Mickey do that for me. Fortunately they don't get a lot of circulation anymore, but this was not the case for a couple of decades.
Oh, and Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun as well.
Oh, and Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun as well.
You think you have a drinking problem?
a man in a trench coat and a green shirt is standing in front of a tree .
ALT: a man in a trench coat and a green shirt is standing in front of a tree .
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March 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You think you have a drinking problem?
Kinda like the original Night Court comedy series, where Judge Harry T. Stone got his judgeship because he was the only one on a list of lawyers to pick up the phone on a big holiday weekend.
February 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Kinda like the original Night Court comedy series, where Judge Harry T. Stone got his judgeship because he was the only one on a list of lawyers to pick up the phone on a big holiday weekend.