I had a chem professor who randomly brought his (then 12 year) old daughter to the lab and required his students explain their bench work to her. His notion was that if they couldn’t explain it to her they didn’t understand it themselves. That threat regularly put noses in books. Very clever.

After reading her VF excerpt I suspect only the tip of the proverbial iceberg is in view.

How are oven manufacturers ever going to collect marketing data? Are you sure all you want is a box you can heat up to a stable temperature and put stuff in to take out later? Maybe you would like it to post status updates to Twitter, maybe you want AI to recommend recipes. You could miss out!

Squirrels are MAGA of the backyard—consumption driven, carelessly destructive, and arrogantly entitled. They should all have little red hats.

I have this t-shirt. My layperson caveat is that if you inked any document that declares late fees exist that might serve as legal notice.

JD, full stop—good doctors don’t go into politics. What he understands is how to leverage ignorance polemically.

The hand will heal but the Cholula is forever lost. Thoughts and prayers.

But if you really want to change things, learn to 3D print 3D printers.

One can 3D print all the parts for the enigma machine and assemble one of your own.

JFC that’s awful haiku, I mean epically bad.

Present in my room
Cultural appropriation
Tone deaf, disturbing.

The eponym is “Mel” in commercial kitchens. Came with a name tag. Let everyone know to not expect you to know anything. Only lasts a month.

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Brings to mind “The place to improve the world is in one’s head, and heart, and hands, and work outward from there.” -Robert Pirsig.

Wow, BlueSky really is full of pornography, and no, that’s not my mom.

I was eligible for AARP when they were both there.