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Pseudo-public out-of-lab-notebook. Displaced Arts & Scientist / Notional Reference Librarian / (Ad hoc)²Everything ‘til I get out of Dutch. Formally yours, etc.

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“I do a lot of very interesting work with a microwave.”
https://t.co/vCKArZmGfI
Revisiting a delightful @capnmariam/@terryborder conversation, wherein a conversation Re: competitive food programming is ever derailed and Terry suggests I’ll not sell many cookbooks w/ my “recipes”.

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@hotdogsladies Did you see the recent AMC show where he plays an English professor? 👩‍🍳 ͯ

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As someone who long leaned on both, every once in a while I have "Music" and "Podcasts" open on the same screen and am furious anew about the encrappening of the world by the native app dissolution of iTunes.

Oh, that the mandate of "Don't Make Things Worse" were broadly shared.

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It’s kinda wild to realize that Kevin McCallister, Lydia Deetz, and David Rose all have the same (step)mother.

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@hotdogsladies Pointing out the danger here is complex inasmuch as I could see myself getting very into optimizing those machines that turn plastic bottles into 3D printer filament toward completing the meowroboros.

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@madmup arfsolutely not

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@hotdogsladies OMG, his jumping on the bed was wild.

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@Leticius depends on the vitamin!

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(He put it together when I said I'd been on the East Coast for 2 weeks and looked around and pointed.

I had not realized it was him either but he speaks at a normal human volume.)

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A wild situation of being a visitor on another branch's site is suddenly realizing that you are on the same call as someone 10 feet from you, who you normally talk to from 3000 miles away, is compounded by being a loud talker and watching him looking for why he is getting reverb.

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@aronchick I was just telling the story of a work site wherein we were analyzing flavor crystals in gum, lipids on oreos, glycation products on cookies, and oxidation on chocolate to a friend’s kid last night and she asked if I worked at a bakery. 💕

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@madmup …And yet would anyone call Marmchelangelo a party dude?

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I approach all interactions with insects with a “you come at the king you best not miss” energy, which, considering the limitations of my aim, may explain why I will cede the occasional corner to the ones that are clearly spider-kings from among spider-men. It’s their party now.

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Once, in a rental car, I worried I damaged an old phone battery by being plugged in as I hit the ignition BUT as the outboard brain had been struggling to come back online today, I figured why not try Johnny5’s boost, and Lo!
TechnoJoy!

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Being asked by a boss to tender an apologetic explanation toward ‘being the bigger person’ is wild.
Like I don’t think we need to go through a whole Archimedean displacement exercise to even just know that at a glance: like it’s not a subtle difference.
They’re very small!
[sɪɢʜ]

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(I always have the quarters: “Die Hard w/ a Vengeance” is maybe the best one.)

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I appreciate the grift that FasTrack can charge a $5 ‘toll evasion penalty’ despite the fact that I would have happily chucked 20 quarters into a bucket, Turnpike style, or handed the cash to a collector if the option had not been removed for financial reasons I assume.

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I thought my scofflaw days were behind me, but I guess not.

https://t.co/rOi55xqOoO

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@jaybarnes Slappr!
🧤 (Bring Your Dueling gLoves)

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Jᴜɴᴇ – 2023
Mᴀɴ ɪs ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ᴏғ Eᴜʀᴏᴘᴇ⁽⁺⁾
Oɴʟʏ ᴛʜᴇ Mᴀʀɪɴᴇ Mᴀᴍᴍᴀʟs sᴡɪᴍ ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ ʜɪᴍ
Oᴄᴇᴀɴs ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴡ ʙᴀᴛᴛʟᴇғɪᴇʟᴅs

[CNN @CNN]

Around 30 killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay over weekend -- with no clear explanation why so many had gathered.