Joseph White Jr.

Hiker and adventure guy who runs @GoCranberry in Staunton, Va. Drop by for a smoothie and we can debate board games and favorite musicals.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

One of the better essays about the subject that I've read.

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

The REALLY COOL thing about that is that if #DarkMatter really is invisible it’s also untouchable. Invisible means “doesn’t interact with electromagnetism” & when you touch something, it’s electromagnetic repulsion between you & it that makes it feel solid https://t.co/ofM7fhif8W

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

Katie Mack for president!

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Sitting with a friend and reading books:

• erudite
• wholesome
• companionable silence

Sitting with a friend and staring at phones:

• rude
• soul-destroying
• symptom of collapse of society

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

Sitting with a friend and reading books:

• erudite
• wholesome
• companionable silence

Sitting with a friend and staring at phones:

• rude
• soul-destroying
• symptom of collapse of society

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@apschuyler Good thing they never put me on the national baseball beat. I would have been a real rebel writing about the autumn meetings and winter training.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@PIacobelli_AP But it's not fall.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

Falling like a klutz doesn't make for a better ending, but it does make make for better copy.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

What a challenging definition to write.

[Peter Sokolowski @PeterSokolowski]

CONGRATULATIONS to Emily Brewster @eabrewster on her promotion to Senior Editor and Editorial Ambassador at @MerriamWebster!

One of her definitions identified a previously unrecognized sense of the indefinite article 'a'--a huge accomplishment for a lexicographer.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

This. 100%. (Yeah, except for the typo.)

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Twitter is it's own bubble, but it's a bigger bubble than the DC cocktail party circuit, and I find it pretty enjoyable when people from that scene (or NYC equivalent) are forced to reckon with it and can't handle an environment where their social status doesn't buy them respect.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Twitter is it's own bubble, but it's a bigger bubble than the DC cocktail party circuit, and I find it pretty enjoyable when people from that scene (or NYC equivalent) are forced to reckon with it and can't handle an environment where their social status doesn't buy them respect.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@notlarrysabato Ah, didn't know they finally made it somewhat convenient to get there by bus. Still will take a lot of convincing for me not to think of it as a surburban monstrosity.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@MikeAlphaOne @AstroKatie Also, please note that the guy who claimed he didn't have time to read the article somehow found time to tweet/retweet at least a dozen times today.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@MikeAlphaOne @AstroKatie Please, Dude, for the sake of your own reputation and to avoid wasting our time, never never never again comment on an article that you haven't read.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@BobbyBancroft Stop speaking those foreign languages.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

Should I have a cast party?

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

First time watching a movie at a drive-in. Hikers get to camp and watch for free, even the one with a broken wrist!

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

New York sure is a wrist-breaker.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

@JimVertuno I was a film critic for a radio station at the time it came out. I gave it a so-so review. One of the most overrated movies of its time.

[Joseph White Jr. @JGatlinWhite]

OK, so New Jersey wins the Appalachian Trail.