Bob Cradock

Dad, researcher, language geek (and borrower of my great-grandfather's photo). @[email protected]

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

Most embarrassing IT help visit ever.

Me: My passwords aren't working.
IT: Your keyboard's too full of crumbs.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

This Russian general who’s not dead, only “taking a rest”, does seem to have beautiful Norwegian blue plumage.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

Well, great. Cormac McCarthy dies, and leaves the rest of us living in a Cormac McCarthy novel.

https://t.co/ztORwtHC39

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@mightygodking I’m the world’s worst dad, because when my kid started kindergarten at Midvale school, I had her pose for a photo while pushing the door.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@lschmeiser I’d bet that for them - and their intended whistle-ees - the 2nd & 3rd words turn the 4th words vowel to a long one.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

Hanging out with my 2yo step-grandson-to-be before our wedding. He’s into Laurie Berkner’s music, but calls her “Larry Derker”, which flashes me back to my 70s baseball cards.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@hotdogsladies And they brought him back again for the Deadwood movie, as the drunk leading the attack on Hearst.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@magiciansbook BTW, I’m slowly enjoying the heck out of The Magician’s Book. Slowly, since I keep getting whooshed back to my own experience. Like the vivid memory of the twinkle-eyed Brother Dismas, as he led me to the store shelf that had TLtWatW and said “you might enjoy this”. Wow & thanks.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@magiciansbook Yes, the double-N seems like a big, thick clue. Sheesh.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

I don’t care whether “pantless thundergoose” is made up or not. That’s my new name for the bird formerly known as the ostrich.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

This is a thread of some of my favourite literal translations from languages around the world, starting with this one…

In Bengali, the word for a penis, অতিসরল, translates literally to “tyranny trunk”

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@nminow I think even that piggy-bank ROI would dwarf the ROI of college president salaries. I doubt anyone can show a Wins Above Replacement value for those. Dean-level payoffs are more tangible, though, as the recent Stanford law mess shows.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

This right-wing judge’s WSJ op-ed titled “My Struggle” probably sounded better in the original German.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@lschmeiser Nicely done on the generation-spanning meme!

[Hannah Fry @FryRsquared]

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying.

[flglmn @flglmn]

i can't see any problematic incentives in a scheme that pays people 10k per year for each kid they don't send to school

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@puzzledpeaces @gassee @CSMFHT My HS Latin teacher taught us Nom Acc Gen Dat Abl. I mentioned that in college to a professor. He replied, with a pained look on his face, “That’s perverse!”.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@nminow Hell, yes.

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

Thread: All 10 Best Picture #Oscars nominees for 2023 as scenes with @TheMuppets

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Dir. Edward Berger

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@windowseat No freaking kidding. I’ve been trying to use the Twitter app. Btwn what it misses, what it unwantedly adds, & its actively user-hostile interface, it’s cut my time here greatly. Mastodon is getting better, while its flaws (and those of its clients) are forgivable growing pains.

[Bob Cradock @cradock]

@windowseat Thanks for that link, and the a.t.h. memory!