DoctorDave
@doctordave.bsky.social
Physics professor and Department Chair. Tormenter of Internet crackpots.
Listening to Steely Dan on my vintage 80s stereo like a real asshole
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Listening to Steely Dan on my vintage 80s stereo like a real asshole
If you aren't spending your Friday nights on stage in front of a thousand or so people dressed like you've been rooting through Steven Tyler's bag of Goodwill donations... you aren't enjoying your 50s as much as I am...
September 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
If you aren't spending your Friday nights on stage in front of a thousand or so people dressed like you've been rooting through Steven Tyler's bag of Goodwill donations... you aren't enjoying your 50s as much as I am...
Smuggled these refugees out of Scotland last week before Trump's visit
July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Smuggled these refugees out of Scotland last week before Trump's visit
(first 15,000 years)
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and help us hunt and kill all of these other creatures!
(next 15,000 years)
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and stop trying to hunt and kill all of the other creatures!
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and help us hunt and kill all of these other creatures!
(next 15,000 years)
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and stop trying to hunt and kill all of the other creatures!
July 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
(first 15,000 years)
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and help us hunt and kill all of these other creatures!
(next 15,000 years)
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and stop trying to hunt and kill all of the other creatures!
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and help us hunt and kill all of these other creatures!
(next 15,000 years)
🗣🐕 Please be a good helpful friend and stop trying to hunt and kill all of the other creatures!
About to spend the summer diving into the literature on "Human Robot Interaction" (#HRI) because I guess I have a robot now.
May 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
About to spend the summer diving into the literature on "Human Robot Interaction" (#HRI) because I guess I have a robot now.
Experience that one only has at a local music festival with ±50 other musicians in attendance: All three guys standing at the urinals joining in with multiple harmony parts to “Higher” by Creed.
April 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Experience that one only has at a local music festival with ±50 other musicians in attendance: All three guys standing at the urinals joining in with multiple harmony parts to “Higher” by Creed.
How come the Chem profs are always trying to schedule meetings at 8AM? Is it the f u m e s ?
March 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
How come the Chem profs are always trying to schedule meetings at 8AM? Is it the f u m e s ?
They were calling for snow today and the Governor of VA was on the news last night giving some speech like... "Virginians are resilient, we will get through this..."
Dude, it's just a foot of snow, we don't need Morgan Freeman's speech from "Deep Impact", for fuck's sake.
Dude, it's just a foot of snow, we don't need Morgan Freeman's speech from "Deep Impact", for fuck's sake.
February 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They were calling for snow today and the Governor of VA was on the news last night giving some speech like... "Virginians are resilient, we will get through this..."
Dude, it's just a foot of snow, we don't need Morgan Freeman's speech from "Deep Impact", for fuck's sake.
Dude, it's just a foot of snow, we don't need Morgan Freeman's speech from "Deep Impact", for fuck's sake.
February resolution to engage with fewer dumbasses is going pretty well.
Unfortunately I am not 100% in control of such engagement. But I'm doing what I can.
Unfortunately I am not 100% in control of such engagement. But I'm doing what I can.
February 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
February resolution to engage with fewer dumbasses is going pretty well.
Unfortunately I am not 100% in control of such engagement. But I'm doing what I can.
Unfortunately I am not 100% in control of such engagement. But I'm doing what I can.
help i have had pink pony club in my head since the grammys
February 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
help i have had pink pony club in my head since the grammys
In an empty house, just stood up and boldly declared "I'm gonna have a hot cocoa, muthafuckas" out loud to nobody in particular
January 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
In an empty house, just stood up and boldly declared "I'm gonna have a hot cocoa, muthafuckas" out loud to nobody in particular
(innocuous sentence in a work meeting...)
"... you can come ask me, or go ask Dave, or go ask Alice..."
(my brain...)
"... you can come ask me, or go ask Dave, or go ask Alice..."
(my brain...)
January 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
(innocuous sentence in a work meeting...)
"... you can come ask me, or go ask Dave, or go ask Alice..."
(my brain...)
"... you can come ask me, or go ask Dave, or go ask Alice..."
(my brain...)
There are few things I hate more than reaching the last paragraph of a long and complicated email I've been putting off writing, only to hear the *ping* of another incoming email arrive before I get a chance to click "send" 📨
January 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There are few things I hate more than reaching the last paragraph of a long and complicated email I've been putting off writing, only to hear the *ping* of another incoming email arrive before I get a chance to click "send" 📨
Just listened to an album I thought I used to really like in the early 00s, and I didn't really enjoy it very much... then I realized the one I really liked was the other one.
Welcome to my impending dementia.
Welcome to my impending dementia.
January 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just listened to an album I thought I used to really like in the early 00s, and I didn't really enjoy it very much... then I realized the one I really liked was the other one.
Welcome to my impending dementia.
Welcome to my impending dementia.
Now comes the difficult part of every Xmas Eve where I have to try very hard not to ruin some of my kids' presents by walking around the house absentmindedly humming various songs from the vinyl albums I just wrapped. 📀 😗🎶
December 24, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Now comes the difficult part of every Xmas Eve where I have to try very hard not to ruin some of my kids' presents by walking around the house absentmindedly humming various songs from the vinyl albums I just wrapped. 📀 😗🎶
Vanity and ambition are fine... go to Mars, be the first. Good job. Build a permanent science base with your name on it. The "colonizing" angle is just silly though.
December 16, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Vanity and ambition are fine... go to Mars, be the first. Good job. Build a permanent science base with your name on it. The "colonizing" angle is just silly though.
Band has a gig tomorrow night. I don't understand people who go to bars the day before #Thanksgiving, but apparently it's a thing? The crowd was nuts here a few weekends ago. All signs point to an absolute banger of a show...
November 26, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Band has a gig tomorrow night. I don't understand people who go to bars the day before #Thanksgiving, but apparently it's a thing? The crowd was nuts here a few weekends ago. All signs point to an absolute banger of a show...
I think if i really liked The Cure and didn’t just kinda-like The Cure, you would not be able to get me to shut up about the new album.
#thecure
#thecure
November 26, 2024 at 12:19 AM
I think if i really liked The Cure and didn’t just kinda-like The Cure, you would not be able to get me to shut up about the new album.
#thecure
#thecure
Bald, puffy, slack-jawed dude walked by me today and I was all alone, so I had to say out loud to nobody in particular...
"More like 'Vin RegularUnleaded'..."
"More like 'Vin RegularUnleaded'..."
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Bald, puffy, slack-jawed dude walked by me today and I was all alone, so I had to say out loud to nobody in particular...
"More like 'Vin RegularUnleaded'..."
"More like 'Vin RegularUnleaded'..."
Fuckin' fall, man… i would pay money for a cologne that smells like campus does this morning
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Fuckin' fall, man… i would pay money for a cologne that smells like campus does this morning
Yeah Dave... put on an album that makes you cry while you grade... that's smart
November 25, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Yeah Dave... put on an album that makes you cry while you grade... that's smart
Hmm... would I rather teach a Python course in-seat next semester, or a Java course online?
Part of my brain says "You could record all of your lectures over break, then you'd just have to grade papers & manage Canvas in the spring", but... come on... will that really happen??
#CSed #TeamCompSci
Part of my brain says "You could record all of your lectures over break, then you'd just have to grade papers & manage Canvas in the spring", but... come on... will that really happen??
#CSed #TeamCompSci
November 24, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Hmm... would I rather teach a Python course in-seat next semester, or a Java course online?
Part of my brain says "You could record all of your lectures over break, then you'd just have to grade papers & manage Canvas in the spring", but... come on... will that really happen??
#CSed #TeamCompSci
Part of my brain says "You could record all of your lectures over break, then you'd just have to grade papers & manage Canvas in the spring", but... come on... will that really happen??
#CSed #TeamCompSci
So just how not-allowed is "misinformation" here?
Can I just tag every flat Earth post as "false information"?
Can I just tag every flat Earth post as "false information"?
November 24, 2024 at 5:03 PM
So just how not-allowed is "misinformation" here?
Can I just tag every flat Earth post as "false information"?
Can I just tag every flat Earth post as "false information"?