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One Take Karaoke

I get three listens, then hit record and post whatever happens. I really wanted to rerecord this one, heh heh.

pdlcomics

how’s life?

beaunydoorin

strong contender for pic of all time

agardenandlibrary

keithius

Keith's Belated Guide to Mastodon (for Twitter Exiles)

Keith’s Belated Guide to Mastodon (for Twitter Exiles)

There are a ton of “what is Mastodon” or “getting started with Mastodon” or “what is this Mastodon thing, really?” articles out there already, but this is my blog and I wanted to write my own guide, so here we are. Let’s go! What isn’t Mastodon Mastodon isn’t Twitter. Let’s get that right out here to start with – in fact, let’s say it again, but louder: Mastodon isn’t Twitter. It has a lot of…

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m1=33.4 m2=40.4 m3=54.0 (solar masses) v1x=-0.379 v1y=0.663 v2x=3.657 v2y=3.32 v3x=-6.23 v3y=2.849 (km/s) x1=-3.0 y1=25.0 x2=-6.0 y2=-25.0 x3=31.0 y3=24.0 (AU from center) Music: Moonlight Sonata (1st Mvmt) – Beethoven

osakajack

What a beautiful ballet this one is.

keithius

Burned by Mastodon, AGAIN

Following on the heels of my last post about Mastodon, unfortunately it seems I’ve been burned again. Much like how when I first tried Mastodon a few years ago and the instance I joined just up and vanished without warning, today I tried to log on and found that my account just… didn’t exist anymore? I tried to log in but my credentials were rejected. I went to look at the status for the site,…

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thewintersoldier

HORROR MOVIES + Titular Line

Scream (1996) The Ring (2002) Halloween (1978) The Exorcist (1973) Jeepers Creepers (2001) Insidious (2010) As Above, So Below (2014) Get Out (2017) House on Haunted Hill (1959) The Wicker Man (1973)

thesuperheroesnetwork

itsvondell-deactivated20180104

you can take one man’s trash to another man’s treasure but you can’t make it drink

Fun fact: the blending of idioms or cliches is called a malaphor.

My personal favorite is “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.”

chromalogue

I’m rather fond of “It’s not rocket surgery” and “not the sharpest egg in the attic,” but my all-time favourite is, “…until the cows freeze over.”

bowtochris

You’ve opened this can of worms, now lie in it,

petrichroma-blog

These are fantastic My submission is a play on the top one: ‘I will drag this dead horse to water and beat it until it drinks’

osakajack

Birds of a feather are worth two in the bush.

falseknees

2 extra panels on my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/falseknees

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m1=85.4 m2=26.6 m3=23.2 (solar masses) v1x=0.067 v1y=-4.985 v2x=-1.606 v2y=6.154 v3x=5.506 v3y=-4.621 (km/s) x1=11.0 y1=1.0 x2=-10.0 y2=29.0 x3=13.0 y3=29.0 (AU from center) Music: Waltz of the Flowers – Tchaikovsky

agnesandhilda

star trek actors are so strong for doing technobabble with a straight face. if you asked me to talk about how the technicron particles are mainlining the quantum blorbonator I would fall apart immediately

trillscienceofficer-archive

ANDRÉ BORMANIS (science consultant, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

An important lesson on technobabble came to me courtesy of Terry Farrell. I was at my first Deep Space Nine wrap party at the end of second season, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been to wrap party so it was like a pretty big deal to me. I’m walking around and talking to the people I know. And I see Terry Farrell standing off by herself. I’d never actually met her, so I sheepishly go up and introduce myself to her, and I said, “Ms. Farrell, I’m André Bormanis.” “Oh, nice to meet you. What do you do on the show?” I’m like, “I’m the science consultant. I’m the guy who puts all that technobabble into your dialogue.” And she literally grabbed me by the lapels and lifted me off my feet. She’s six feet tall. She’s a very tall, striking woman. She’s, like, “You fucking asshole!” And she starts shaking me, and I’m, like, “I’m sorry, it’s my job!”

— “The 50 Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman

sarkos

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m1=70.0 m2=70.6 m3=65.9 (solar masses) v1x=5.8 v1y=-3.38 v2x=-5.773 v2y=5.577 v3x=4.89 v3y=-2.335 (km/s) x1=1.0 y1=-30.0 x2=17.0 y2=33.0 x3=9.0 y3=15.0 (AU from center) Music: Memories of Green – Vangelis

judiciousimprecation

Elon wyd

I genuinely wish I could see inside Musk’s head or at least get an explanation for how he was thinking his plans would work out.

Like it’s clear now he is fantastically out of touch with reality but I still really wanna know like, to what degree. Did he think people would accept his ultimatum? Did he genuinely think it would only take like 300 people to keep Twitter running?

numberonecatwinner

I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller company — after Elon got hair plugs, but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have some insight to offer here.

Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn’t have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.

Not Man Skying

I enjoy the game No Man’s Sky. I have not played it for some time, but I think the bug will hit me before the year is out. Just to remind myself, here are some screenshots with my old... integrated graphics card. I fully expect the next time I play to look better.

falseknees

The Honkerer

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m1=28.9 m2=7.9 m3=8.6 (solar masses) v1x=4.921 v1y=2.047 v2x=2.593 v2y=-6.472 v3x=4.895 v3y=6.637 (km/s) x1=15.0 y1=0.0 x2=1.0 y2=32.0 x3=-25.0 y3=29.0 (AU from center) Music: First Step (Interstellar) – Zimmer