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An expert (? haven't actually worked in the field for a while but grad school never leaves you) in weird niche embedded GPS applications, currently teaching physics, always sipping coffee, riding bikes, wearing cardigan sweaters. (they/them)
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Life on Mars, but I'm Afraid of Americans is especially relevant at the moment. My most controversial opinion is that this is the best song called Changes: youtu.be/eh1dVptApmc?...

It's Tuesday and I'm ready for this week to be over.

It's a movie I've never even heard of called Legends of the Fall, so I'm not sure if that means we're going to have a really incredible autumn or everything is going to catastrophically collapse.

I knew this one from the video title alone. πŸ˜‚ youtu.be/1SnGTrcM66c?...

What do I need to do for a cosmic ray to interact in my head and flip that one neuron back to the setting where I can enjoy reading a book without losing focus and transitioning into an anxiety attack?

[Insert a list of three Paradox grand strategy games I still absolutely suck at here.]

My new book made this list of things for summer observing, in other fun news! www.astronomy.com/observing/ne...

The only other band I've dug up from my memory is Deep Forest. It feels like some of Mickey Hart's output might qualify, but πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ.

I want to make a New-Age/Pop crossover hit playlist. What should I put on it other than Enya, Loreena McKennitt, and like Enigma or something?

I assure you, none of them are mine.

How Does a Gravitational Slingshot Work? www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

While we're comparing the now to 2003, the thing from then that I think most resembles Donald Trump today is Chris Carter's showrunning on the X-Files where he insisted he had a plan and then did ten things that made it transparently obvious he never had a plan.

The weather is happening and I would like it to stop.

Was playing Animal Crossing with my 6 year old & as it’s my OG island from 2020, turned & uttered such an organically science fictional sentence I just HAD to tack the next bit on… β€œHey, no time traveling without Mama, okay? You stay where I can remember you.”

Some bad trans news has happened so here's a dog pic or something? πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

Sally Ride became the first US woman in space #OTD in 1983. She was one of three mission specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. At age 32 she was also the youngest US astronaut. πŸ§ͺ πŸ”­ πŸ‘©β€πŸ”¬ Image: NASA

It's getting to the point where if I see a news report that aliens that look like giant blancmange have turned all the Englishmen into Scotsmen so they can win Wimbeldon like that one Monty Python sketch it will just feel normal.

they should reboot schoolhouse rock! with "execution dysfunction junction"