Doug Cook

(Computer, wine) geek, drummer, linguaphile. CTO @thirstylogic. Ex-(Twitter, Inktomi, SGI). Raising @nebbiolino & @fiatlucien. Warning: there be dad jokes.

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@dbasch But the pangram is obviously UPLOOTED, meaning "ransacked a particularly nice house"

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@dbasch Interesting. It's also a thing to build data centers near nuclear power plants, presumably because energy is readily accessible, and power plants are often built in depressed areas without the political power to resist them, just like data centers.

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@robertjoseph Antoinette, in Lyon

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@wblakegray There hasn't been a single time when LeBron James has come up to me at a party and hasn't said that.

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@ntoddpax Definitely for the house with the pool, can't remember for the big house with the loft...

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@ntoddpax That number rings oddly familiar, as does [phone]

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@dbasch @audible_com Try Storytel - don't know about their watch app, but they have been a great audiobook service in general.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is absolutely infuriating and completely idiotic.

An estimated 95,000 scientists and researchers have left federal agencies since Trump returned to the White House. These are the people tracking hurricanes, studying pediatric cancer, and modeling the climate tipping points that determine whether we can still prevent catastrophe.

We lost them because this administration defunded their work, shuttered their offices, and made clear that finding out the truth is no longer a government priority.

NASA’s own administrator just said studying climate change isn’t part of NASA’s mission. The agency that first warned Congress about global warming in 1988 now treats that work as a distraction.

Meanwhile, China and Europe are recruiting our scientists, funding their labs, and making long-term bets on the industries of the future while we gut the research infrastructure that took generations to build.

We are surrendering global scientific leadership voluntarily, deliberately, and one resignation letter at a time.

https://t.co/zYjiKOeSkX

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@ntoddpax @TiminTX1967 Just hoping the species will be around in centuries to study it.

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@EricAsimov @wblakegray It's rare, but it happens. I still remember the somm at (Michelin-starred!) Terra, in Saint Helena, who insisted a bottle of corked wine was fine, refused to replace the bottle, and when I politely insisted, refused to taste the (delicious) replacement bottle next to the first.

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@ntoddpax @iamAtheistGirl I think Lawrence pretty much wrote the story because he couldn't resist the prurient double-entendre of the man saying "I have arisen!"

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@ntoddpax @iamAtheistGirl In the fiction of DH Lawrence, anyway: https://t.co/3d2tvIetbM

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@dbasch Knew you were going to say that

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Donald Trump is the worst president we've ever had.

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@bruceschoenfeld Need a button other than "heart" to respond to that. Why can't we have a button that means "I agree, it's totally f--ed up?"

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@wblakegray Let me know next time you’re out this way on a wine junket, and I’ll keep you posted when I am next on the west coast!

[Doug Cook @ablegrape]

@wblakegray Might be a while, as I’m in Lyon these days!

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@BillJelavich @Hmitchell French vanilla is vanilla, but when you use your tongue?