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I was thinking of observing stars to verify Einstein's theory of relativity again, but I gotta say, that thing is looking pretty solid at this point.

There were traffic jams for the eclipses in 1970 and 1979, and that was *before* we had the potential for overnight viral social media frenzies.

It's hard to train deep learning algorithms when most of the positive feedback they get is sarcastic.

I live on a torn-bag-of-potato-chips-where-the-tear-is-rapidly-growing fault, which is terrifying.

I would be honored, but I know I don't belong in your network. The person you invited was someone who had not yet inflicted this two-year ordeal upon you. I'm no longer that person.

If it falls below 20% full, my bag turns red and I start to panic.

Since buns range from crepuscular to nocturnal, it's recommended that you enable the scheduled "Do Not Disturb" mode on your phone to avoid being woken by alerts about Night Buns.

There's this idea that emoji are bad for communication because they replace ambiguity and nuance with a limited set of preselected emotions, but it doesn't really survive a collision with real-world usage of the thinking face or upside-down smiley.

This restaurant is great! I was feeling really sick, but then I ate there and felt better!

The captain has turned on the 'fasten seat belt' sign.

"You know lightning, right? When electric charge builds up in a cloud and then discharges in a giant spark? Ask me why that happens." "Why does tha--" "No clue. We think it's related to the hair thing."

Unfortunately, NASA regulations state that Bertrand Russell-related payloads can only be launched within launch vehicles which do not launch themselves.

According to the cable company reps who keep calling me, it's because I haven't upgraded to the XTREME GIGABAND PANAMAX FLAVOR-BLASTED PRO PACKAGE WITH HBO, which is only $5 more per month for the first 6 months and five billion dollars per month after that.

This place has so many demonyms. Northlanders. Fair Folk. Honey Barons. Lake Dwellers. Treasurers. Swamp Watchers. Dream Farmers. Wellfolk. Rockeaters. Forgotten Royals. Remote Clients. Barrow-Clerks. The People of Land and Sky.

For the final exam, you take a screenshot showing off all the work you've done in the class, and it has to survive being uploaded, thumbnailed, and re-screenshotted through a chain of social media sites.

Each particle also has a password which allows its properties to be changed, but the cosmic censorship hypothesis suggests we can never observe the password itself—only its secure hash.

If you draw a diagonal line from lower left to upper right, that's the ICP 'Miracles' axis.

You're saying that the responsibility for avoiding miscommunication lies entirely with the listener, not the speaker, which explains why you haven't been able to convince anyone to help you down from that wall.

I heard they might make the wild card game, which would be cool. Do you know when that is? I have a wedding next weekend, but if it's after that we could try to go!

Strangely, they still celebrate by eating hot dogs. Since they don't have mouths, they just kinda toss them in the air and let them fall back down into their propeller blades. It's pretty messy.

Some other studio should do the Antz/A Bug's Life thing and release The Dingbats Movie at the same time.

Real analysis is way realer than I expected.

I was banned from the airliners.net photography forum by concerned moderators after the end of my lens started brushing against planes as they flew by.

The hardest refresh requires both a Mac keyboard and a Windows keyboard as a security measure, like how missile launch systems require two keys to be turned at once.

I'm not totally locked into my routine—twice a year, I take a break to change the batteries in my smoke detectors.

Luckily for my interpretation, no precincts were won by the Green Party.

Magnetohydrodynamics combines the intuitive nature of Maxwell's equations with the easy solvability of the Navier-Stokes equations. It's so straightforward physicists add "relativistic" or "quantum" just to keep it from getting boring.

I had fun visiting the museum at Dover Air Force Base, unless they don't have a museum, in which case I've never been to Delaware in my life.

In the 90s, our variety radio station used the tagline "the best music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s." After 2000, they switched to "the best music of the 80s, 90s, and today." I figured they'd change again in 2010, but it's 2017 and they're still saying "80s, 90s, and today." I hope radio survives long enough for us to find out how they deal with the 2020s.

"This will take a while, which sucks, because I'm already so busy chiseling out igneous intrusions from rock formations and watching Youtube loops of the Superman fault-sealing scene over and over."

Sounds fine. I looked up the Academy, and it says on their MySpace page that their journal is peer-viewed and downloaded biannually.

On the other hand, as far as they know, my system is working perfectly.

The top search for every state is PORN, except Florida, where it's SEX PORN.

Kenneth Arrow hated me because the ordering of my preferences changes based on which voting systems have what level of support. But it tells me a lot about the people I'm going to be voting with!

Using a classic Timothy Zahn EU/Legends novel is bad enough, but at least the style and setting aren't too far off. If you really want to mess with people, try using Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

It's cool, it's totally ethical--they're all programmed to hunt whichever bird of prey is most numerous at the moment, so they leave the endangered ones alone until near the end.

Gonna feel even dumber when I realize that all this time he's been talking into a bluetooth thingy and we're not actually friends.

That's very exciting! The bad news is that it's a risk factor for a lot of things.

According to these blood tests, you're like 30% cereal.

The pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent.

Technically, both cars are haunted, but the murder ghosts can't stand listening to the broken GPS for more than a few minutes.

WHEN I WAS ON A BOAT I DROPPED MY PHONE CAN U LOOK FOR IT

I take the view that "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches, but all other physical objects are.

GO FOR LUNCH, REPEAT, GO FOR LUNCH.

It's like a half-solved cryptogram where the solution is a piece of FORTH code written by someone who doesn't know FORTH.

A good lifehack is to use messy and unstable systems to organize your photos. That way, every five years or so it becomes obsolete and/or collapses, and you have to open it up and pick only your favorite pictures to salvage.

"We TOLD you it was hard." "Yeah, but now that I'VE tried, we KNOW it's hard."

Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.

'The mountains near here formed when the ... Newfoundland ... microplate collided with, uhh ... Labrador.' 'Ok, now you're definitely just naming dogs.' 'Wait, no, that's actually almost correct.'

I guess it's also the right setting for pictures of the Moon at night.

They say you can't argue with results, but what kind of defeatist attitude is that? If you stick with it, you can argue with ANYTHING.

No, tell the park rangers to calm down, it's fine--I put a screen on the front. I just want to get the birds a little closer.

Really, the only honest 24-hour stores are the ones in places like Arizona and Hawaii, and many of them are still wrong in certain years.

Be careful—it's breeding season, and some of these can be *extremely* defensive of their nests.

Elon Musk finally blocked me from the internal Tesla repository because I wouldn't stop sending pull requests for my code supporting steering via vim keybindings.

ISSUE: If we wait long enough, the Earth will eventually be consumed by the Sun. WORKAROUND: None.

My trash can broke recently and I had to get rid of it. When I picked it up, I suffered a brief but harrowing existential crisis.

Never give your password or bank account number to anyone who doesn't have a blue check mark next to their name.

Every year I make out my bracket at the season, and every year it's busted before the first game when I find out which teams are playing.

If you ask "why are leaves green?" the usual answer is "because they're full of chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is green," even though "why does chlorophyll scatter green light?" is a great question too.

They're really the worst tech support team. And their solutions are always the same. "This OS X update broke something." "LET'S INFILTRATE APPLE BY MORPHING APPLES!"

I pronounce epitome "EPPY-tome", but EpiPen "uh-PIE-pen".

There's a compromise bill to keep the notification bar but at least charge the battery.

♫ When the spacing is tight / And the difference is slight / That's a moiré ♫

My favorite might be U+1F609 U+1F93F WINKING FACE VOMITING.

'So we just have a steady flow of metal piling up in our server room? Isn't that a problem?' 'Yeah, you should bring that up at our next bismuth meeting.'

I recognize that chocolate is its own thing on which reasonable people may differ. Everything else here is objective fact.

I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway.

The phone will be collected by the toll operators and mailed back to you within 4-6 weeks.

The dump also contains a list of millions of prime factors, a 0-day Tamagotchi exploit, and a technique for getting gcc and bash to execute arbitrary code.

Sure, you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host gift thing.

If used with software that could keep up, a scroll wheel mapped to send a stream of 'undo' and 'redo' events could be kind of cool.

If you must know, I'm currently researching how to save this emailed tax form as a regular PDF so I can print and sign it. Our work isn't a lock for the Nobel, but we're in the running.

"So, like, sexy news videos?" "No, people have tried that--it's still just video content. We need to actually inform people THROUGH making out. I would call it 'Mouth Content,' but I think that's already the title of a Neil Cicierega album."

Google and Yelp keep deleting my scathing reviews of the Mariana Trench, the Chernobyl reactor core, the jet stream, and the equator.

[*disables social networking accounts*] [*social isolation increases*] Wait, why does this ALSO feel bad?

Good point--making no decision is itself a decision. So that's a THIRD option I have to research!

I've decided to score all my conversations using chess win-loss notation. (??)

This is probably the first projection in cartographic history that can be criticized for its disproportionate focus on Finland, Mongolia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

You have to be careful doing this. Sometimes, when you push the whisker down, dynamite explodes.

I have accidentally watered virtually every person and object in Pelican Town.

Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation.

After my absent-mindedness resulted in a bad posterboard-related stomachache, I learned to do the sign-making place last.

Billy Joel briefly detained

The key is portion control, which is why I've switched to eating smaller cans of frosting instead of full bottles.

You can apply special translucent films to your windows to help keep birds/Superman from accidentally flying into them.

On the other hand, the refractor's limited light-gathering means it's unable to make out shadow people or the dark god Chernabog.

With the right 90-degree rotation, any effect is a side effect.

Texting should work. Unless the message is too long, in which case it gets converted to voicemails, and I think I'm locked out of my voicemail.

My life goal is to launch a barge into the air and have it land on one of Elon Musk's rockets.

Dvorak words may sound hard to pronounce, but studies show they actually put less stress on the vocal cords.

Plus, time's all weird in there, so most of it probably broke down and decomposed hundreds of years ago. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to get in touch with Yucca Mountain to see if they're interested in a partnership.

Further out to the right, it works correctly, but the reason it works still involves the word 'firmware.'

This map preserves the shapes of Tissot's indicatrices pretty well, as long as you draw them in before running the resize.

Hey Rob, sorry it took me a while to get back to you! Sure, I'd love to see WALL-E opening weekend! Are you still doing that, or...?

2078: He announces that he's finally making the jump from screen+irssi to tmux+weechat.

I didn't even realize you could HAVE a data set made up entirely of outliers.

[holding up a three-phase motor] As you can see here, the problem is that the humidifier I took this from is broken.

Things are looking good for the eclipse--Nate Silver says Earth will almost definitely still have a moon in August.

Sometimes, parts of a slowly-rising mountain suddenly rise REALLY fast, which is extra interesting.