fresnel.bsky.social
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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My favorite secret track was on a TMBG album (I forget which one) on track zero, so you had to manually rewind from the beginning of track one.
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The newspapers I did this with back in college were The Guardian and The Christian Science Monitor and I have absolutely no recollection for how or why I picked those.
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I had to watch the 1972 Soviet adaptation of Solaris for a college class and fell asleep multiple times only for my head to tilt back and slam right into the hard plastic nubbins holding the lecture hall seat backs together and that's the entire reason that's my personal least favorite movie.
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I truly believe that if half the infrastructure that Cleveland, Ohio has ever had built were maintained and funded it would be the best city on Earth.
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This would 100% somehow be incorporated into a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album.
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I'd be happy with a boob size slider, everything else would be gravy.
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People are intimidated by stoner metal? When I saw Mastodon they were touring with Lorna Shore and Gojira and were by far the most mellow band there.
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See, I love it for what it is, but I'm mostly into Yes for Howe and Wakeman, so it's missing a bit of that magic for me and I would absolutely read the shit out of that.
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Hello from a week long heat advisory and record high temperatures in a place famous for being moderately cool.
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This song is in my head now. youtu.be/gbDostWXpcU?...
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That's basically what I wear in IDGAF mode.
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BRB, I'm going to tear out the section of a physics text book on boiling point elevation and tie it to a brick. For reasons.
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I'm exactly 5'10" and can't relate.
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Most of my pop(?) culture references are to Rejected or this one specific Discovery Channel commercial. youtu.be/ZNLNeHySon0?...
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I got overwhelmed from product fatigue long before we got here and agree wholeheartedly. Now I just need other people to take up my format where we only play meta Pauper decks from ten years ago.
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I think Judges 1:19 presents the possibility that God is vulnerable to cold iron and may be a fairy.
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Your organization is much better than mine. All my cards live in a haunted desk. I'm not even sure which drawers have the MTG cards and which have VTES.
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Back in college I learned the Fear Factory version of that song on guitar and I'm 100% going to sing it like that to my dog now.
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Now I'm just sad that Vernor Vinge is dead and we'll never get a sequel to Rainbow's End that explains where the inexplicable anthropomorphic rabbit deity came from.
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Incidentally, this has reminded me that it's injection day.
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Dueling Xanadus.
youtu.be/SEuOoMprDqg?...
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Why did the fungus and the algae get married?
They took a lichen to each other.
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I just want to hear Push.
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I'm now kind of offended that the music auto playlist robot has never followed up with this after Dorian Electra. youtu.be/3f-pu4ieoXE?...
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It's basically what would happen if Google had a baby with a graphing calculator, so it just gives you some tips about how to actually use it. www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=aoeu...
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I want to replace ChatGPT with WolframAlpha and I think that would make the world a better place.
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Someone broke a frosted light bulb in my high school's after-school theater program and they had to shut everything down because there was some white powder.
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The nickname version of my government name everyone including my entire family calls me fulfills this and my genderqueer heart fills with joy every time someone switches between "sir" and "ma'am" at the grocery store checkout.
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My first semester physics course for non-majors has an exam coming up next week, so this is probably a common sentiment.
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The memory of several high-school essays I wrote and completely forgot about has suddenly rushed back into my brain.
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If I didn't already have anxiety scheduled for this evening, I would 100% be there.
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After my childhood religious trauma and like 1/4 of a religious studies degree 20 years ago my ideal religion would involve o pantheon of low-key assholes and the practice of some mundane rituals to appease their obnoxious whimsy.