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Law guy. Single dad to a kindergartner, geriatric golden retriever, and an asshole cat. Factotum.
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A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Ummm

I spent NYE into NYD in the hospital (I'm fine); my son has significantly diminished hearing/tinnitus without pain, which is scary; and I don't think my dog will live out the month. So 2024 is off to an awesome start.

If none of you are going to tell me when my collar is messed up, I'm not even sure what you're doing in my movie.

hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave

I never get tired of staring at Romanesco—whose fractal shape is a record of flower buds recursively trying and failing to come into being www.newscientist.com/article/2283...

Ooooookay

Did some rudimentary blues exercises on the piano, basically the first time I've engaged in an organized piano activity in over 30 years and a new embarkation on what I hope will be a constructive meditation, and lordy my hands are *tired*.

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

Brassica xkcd.com/2827

So I guess now I'm picking sides in the richer-than-god-bros war.