I like to think that you enjoy living dangerously to the extent that there are one or two deeply entertaining pictures, and this truly is random.

Roll the dice, good sir

Only a psycho physicist would help build the sorts of Serious Apparatus a psychophysicist wants.

Source: I know the physicist who helped Weisel and Hubel build their Serious Apparatus.

(Trigger warning: if you like cats, don’t look this up.)

The problem is desensitization from the high level of existential risk tolerance presently needed for just day-to-day life

When union door flyers become inadvertent markers for who has not been in since semester’s start. 🍿🍿🍿

Exciting and bittersweet to see the US returned to the moon. I loved space as a child, and grew up, becoming increasingly disillusioned by my country’s failure to invest meaningfully in space travel.

Honestly, unsure. It depends on whether I can make it out. Many questions between now and then, which hopefully will be answered on the soon side.

I am amused by the idea of “useless plutonium”, presumably bought from some shady 2-bit back alley plutonium dealer.

Do you have a backpack keg with an IV feed?

Reminds me of the classics:

www.theonion.com/corporation-...

Our company is doing so well that you’re all fired

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

It's real. I've had Kumis, of both the Horse and Cow variety. It's genuinely not bad. Like sparkling Yakult taken another step...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis

Everyone in my lab fights Noodles...

This is a wonderful idea. I will have to find some appropriately large snakes for the coming defenses in my life.

Subject: Thesis defense issue
Hi, Linda-
I just realized that I never got an email about the snake for my defense (coming up next week). Do you know anything about how the snake gets assigned?
Thanks-
Robin

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