Rick Coogle

Engineer. Game player. Dungeon master. Meadmaker. Post-post-modern Prometheus. Possibly The Dude.

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@TychoBrahe It is legitimately an amazing sentence.

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It is incredibly difficult for me to avoid singing along with Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia."

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Renaming something in a large-scale program is always great because there's always one more thing you forgot to change the name of.

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(The program I used to generate this had some...uh...quirks.)

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In celebration of the teaser, because it was one of my favorite movies growing up, here's an attempt at statting out the Ghost with the Most I did a couple of years ago.

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καὶ σὺ τέκνον τῆς ἀρχῆς ἡμῶν παρατρώξῃ.

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We truly lost one of the greats with John Romita, Sr.'s passing.

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Reading proofs in computer science papers is always amazing. "Theorem: Thing. Proof: Thing works."

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the song "margaritaville" is actually about odysseus of the odyssey realizing his failings. in this essay i will

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Well, time for this classic, I suppose. https://t.co/Ns7Tg6con2

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Basic calculus: dy/dt is a symbol: it does not represent a division, and you should not treat it that way.

Differential equations: lol...lmao

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@AaronBPrince You have to install a specific font locally - Cyan's original D'ni font. The page pointed at it at one time, but it looks like that link died. Here's where you can get it now: https://t.co/oOZ0WRA60T

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Me: why can't I remember anything anymore
Me: ooh, let's listen to this album from the 90s.
Me: *able to remember every single lyric*
Me: ah, perhaps this is why

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The best part about the latter is it's more like "See you in hell!" than a pleading question.

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Another fun fact: "Et tu, Brute?" is not what Caesar said after he was turned into a Senate pincushion. What he is believed to actually have said was either a) nothing, or b) "καὶ σύ, τέκνον?" ("You too, child?")

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Caesar: "And then he went, 'Beware the ides of, yadda, yadda, yadda.'"

Portia: "Did you just 'yadda, yadda, yadda' the soothsayer?"

Caesar: "I'm sure it's fine."

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(From "Padraig.")

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Here to remind you ahead of time it's "Paddy," not "Patty."

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classic rock bands today are basically ships of theseus, send tweet.

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I leave that for you to ponder.

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Last night, as part of a dream, I saw someone drinking from a mug that, in a Pac-Man style font, said "Fitness Butt."