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I don't know why I didn't think of that. Every seat available for every showing tonight (5 pm, 7:45 pm, 10:30 pm) and every seat available for every showing Saturday night (1:30 pm, 4:15 pm, 7:45 pm, 9 pm).
February 4, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I don't know why I didn't think of that. Every seat available for every showing tonight (5 pm, 7:45 pm, 10:30 pm) and every seat available for every showing Saturday night (1:30 pm, 4:15 pm, 7:45 pm, 9 pm).
toilet WITH NO VISIBLE HANDLE. Yes, really. You had to know where the proximity gadget was inside the tank and wave your hand over the correct corner of the tank. Worked on four AA batteries that lasted about six weeks per set. That dark spot in the picture is just a sticker!
February 4, 2026 at 12:42 PM
toilet WITH NO VISIBLE HANDLE. Yes, really. You had to know where the proximity gadget was inside the tank and wave your hand over the correct corner of the tank. Worked on four AA batteries that lasted about six weeks per set. That dark spot in the picture is just a sticker!
This is Hitler's Triumphbogen, planned by him and Albert Speer, deferred because of concerns whether the marshy soil of Berlin wouldn't support it adequately, and ultimately never built.
January 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM
This is Hitler's Triumphbogen, planned by him and Albert Speer, deferred because of concerns whether the marshy soil of Berlin wouldn't support it adequately, and ultimately never built.
I think Donald Trump would be well advised to drop the "Sleepy Joe" insult.
January 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I think Donald Trump would be well advised to drop the "Sleepy Joe" insult.
No. Or cap credit card interest rates at 10% effective January 20th, 2026. Or "settle" the war between Russian and Ukraine within 24 hours. Or kill congestion pricing in New York. Or get the NFL to roll back their new kickoff rule. Or institute tariffs on movies.
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
No. Or cap credit card interest rates at 10% effective January 20th, 2026. Or "settle" the war between Russian and Ukraine within 24 hours. Or kill congestion pricing in New York. Or get the NFL to roll back their new kickoff rule. Or institute tariffs on movies.
to claim it as related to structure of DNA, which it of course isn't. Wait, the film is from 1954 and Watson & Crick published in 1953 so maybe he WAS hinting at that.
January 27, 2026 at 12:27 AM
to claim it as related to structure of DNA, which it of course isn't. Wait, the film is from 1954 and Watson & Crick published in 1953 so maybe he WAS hinting at that.
I guess it wasn't "effective February 20th" after all.
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I guess it wasn't "effective February 20th" after all.
Today is the day our credit card interest rates get reduced to 10%. Trump said.
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Today is the day our credit card interest rates get reduced to 10%. Trump said.
It's nuts. A bunker made sense in 1941 when the old one was built. Not today. Marshy Washington D.C. is not Cheyenne Mountain.
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 PM
It's nuts. A bunker made sense in 1941 when the old one was built. Not today. Marshy Washington D.C. is not Cheyenne Mountain.
Meanwhile, by Wednesday, January 21st, the interest rate on my Capital One card will be either 18.40% or 10%, one or the other, yes or no, no ambiguity, no fudging. If it doesn't happen, we need to make sure people notice.
January 19, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Meanwhile, by Wednesday, January 21st, the interest rate on my Capital One card will be either 18.40% or 10%, one or the other, yes or no, no ambiguity, no fudging. If it doesn't happen, we need to make sure people notice.
Which reminds me: whatever happened to
January 18, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Which reminds me: whatever happened to
Countdown time. Don't let this be forgotten. Trump's 10% credit card rate cap becomes effective in two days, January 20th, 2026. When I wake up on Wednesday the 21st, my Capital One credit card will either be showing an APR of 18.40% or a reduction to 10%. Yes or no. True or false. No ambiguity.
January 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Countdown time. Don't let this be forgotten. Trump's 10% credit card rate cap becomes effective in two days, January 20th, 2026. When I wake up on Wednesday the 21st, my Capital One credit card will either be showing an APR of 18.40% or a reduction to 10%. Yes or no. True or false. No ambiguity.
I dread how Trump is sure to politicize this. When and if US astronauts set foot on the moon again, I don't expect there to be peaceful rhetoric this time.
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I dread how Trump is sure to politicize this. When and if US astronauts set foot on the moon again, I don't expect there to be peaceful rhetoric this time.
I saw an F-150 Lighting in the wild a couple of days ago, and it looked like a real working truck. I've only seen maybe half-a-dozen Cybertrucks ever, and not one of them looked like a working truck.
January 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I saw an F-150 Lighting in the wild a couple of days ago, and it looked like a real working truck. I've only seen maybe half-a-dozen Cybertrucks ever, and not one of them looked like a working truck.
This is the first EV pickup truck, of any make, that I've seen being used as a truck. Not sure how a Cybertruck would carry a couple of ladders...
January 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
This is the first EV pickup truck, of any make, that I've seen being used as a truck. Not sure how a Cybertruck would carry a couple of ladders...
I'm not sure it is all THAT different than it ever was. But bless you for teaching middle school.
January 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I'm not sure it is all THAT different than it ever was. But bless you for teaching middle school.
Actually there's a reason for this, although it has been self-serving and deceptive for ~40 years. In the beginning, they didn't know how to make a rectangular screen. TV screens were actually circular, mounted in a cabinet that masked off the top and bottom. The obvious way to measure the size of
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Actually there's a reason for this, although it has been self-serving and deceptive for ~40 years. In the beginning, they didn't know how to make a rectangular screen. TV screens were actually circular, mounted in a cabinet that masked off the top and bottom. The obvious way to measure the size of
???? Minutes ago. I click it right here in Bluesky all the time. To return "home" after I've been in Following or Science or something.
January 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
???? Minutes ago. I click it right here in Bluesky all the time. To return "home" after I've been in Following or Science or something.
OED also thinks "Welsh rarebit" is a variant or alteration of "Welsh rabbit."
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 AM
OED also thinks "Welsh rarebit" is a variant or alteration of "Welsh rabbit."
Spellings vary, and "rabbit" is well-attested as one of them. "Rarebit" doesn't make any better sense anyway, who's ever heard of "rare" cheese? And in what sense is there only a "bit?"
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Spellings vary, and "rabbit" is well-attested as one of them. "Rarebit" doesn't make any better sense anyway, who's ever heard of "rare" cheese? And in what sense is there only a "bit?"
We're now in the third or fourth iteration of "AGI is a solved problem, in theory, all we need is to throw more computing resources at it and we'll have it in practice." W. Ross Ashby built this machine in 1948, and said it could "think," although he acknowledged that it wasn't very intelligent.
January 5, 2026 at 12:46 AM
We're now in the third or fourth iteration of "AGI is a solved problem, in theory, all we need is to throw more computing resources at it and we'll have it in practice." W. Ross Ashby built this machine in 1948, and said it could "think," although he acknowledged that it wasn't very intelligent.
Think this would be more terrible if you included a compass rose.
January 4, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Think this would be more terrible if you included a compass rose.
One of innumerable examples of overpromising and underdelivering that happened to catch my eye:
January 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
One of innumerable examples of overpromising and underdelivering that happened to catch my eye: