Scott Purdy

Cocktail is muddled lime in gin and tonic. (6) @[email protected]

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@smotus Oh, just one more thing. The victim was laying on his back, his belly baking in the hot sun, beating his legs trying to turn himself over, but he couldn’t, not without your help. But you didn’t help. Why didn’t you help, Leon?

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@tcarmody

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@drfarls I might suggest “a woefully underdeveloped definition of the word ‘innovation’ based more on management jargon than a coherent goal,” as a starting place. Though that can apply to a lot more than DOD.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Oregonians know

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@tkfocht I definitely used “touching” as opposed to “share a border”. My other four were WI, VA, GA, and DE.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@tkfocht If I’ve counted right (did this all in my head and with a blank electoral count map), 8 US states have names with 6 *different* letters and 4 of them (all west of the Mississippi) form a touching chain, with no others touching.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@AthertonKD I don’t even know how to answer this question. Like, how do you compare the best episodes of Cheers to the best episodes of Breaking Bad? They’re good in completely unrelated ways.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@DLind Like, would I wear these in a meeting with high-ranking military officials? Probably not. Would I wear them in a regular work context? Yes.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@megmccarron Also, someone isn’t responding to texts, so can you DM me your address so I can send something.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@megmccarron All kinds of woodland creatures on the onesies. Many of them with body horror zippers running right through the middle of their faces.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@LeighGiangreco I’m surprised there weren’t more men who took it as an opportunity to explain dating.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@hels I loved the first two, but have had a really hard time getting into Nona, for precisely this reason, even though figuring out what’s going on is usually something I enjoy in books.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@jbview I think my two favorites, both of which I saw value in, were lobsters on treadmills and Did Jesus Die For Klingons Too?

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@PuzzleTrip My first guess was correct for all of these lengths except for 8, where I had to really run through the list

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@Vrauldt @AthertonKD Well, it depends what you’re trying to show. China spending a constant percent in a growing economy versus in a shrinking economy has different consequences for what I’m thinking of as “trajectory,” especially to compare to other countries, but the %GDP line would be the same.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@AthertonKD I’d have to actually plot it to see, but I imagine it still would have been better to normalize a base year and make the comparison that way.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@AthertonKD I mean, it can be useful to compare the trajectories, which is the only thing I can think this is trying to do, but you don’t then just drop that chart on an unsuspecting audience.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@DrCourtneyShah The one startup I briefly contracted for was both bewildered and angry that I insisted on being paid with money and not stock. Our relationship did not last long.

[Scott Purdy @scottlearns]

@megmccarron I’m so sorry and also congratulations, I guess?