Erik Wennstrom (Dr. When)
@drwhen.bsky.social
he/him
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University
Lindy Hop (Swing Dance Club @IU)
Math, logic, CS
JoCo Cruise
Crosswords, interactive fiction, puzzle games, sci-fi/fantasy
Band-in-a-Hat
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University
Lindy Hop (Swing Dance Club @IU)
Math, logic, CS
JoCo Cruise
Crosswords, interactive fiction, puzzle games, sci-fi/fantasy
Band-in-a-Hat
Listening to "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" by @charliejane.bsky.social and I just want to say how much slyness the narrator (Marisa Calin?) manages to inject into the words "by a Lady".
August 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Listening to "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" by @charliejane.bsky.social and I just want to say how much slyness the narrator (Marisa Calin?) manages to inject into the words "by a Lady".
My band will be playing at a benefit for All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center tonight at 7pm!
We are the Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space, a folk/emo/metal/ska band, and this is our second show ever! We'll be playing along with The Sera-Tones and Negative Glow
We are the Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space, a folk/emo/metal/ska band, and this is our second show ever! We'll be playing along with The Sera-Tones and Negative Glow
August 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My band will be playing at a benefit for All-Options Pregnancy Resource Center tonight at 7pm!
We are the Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space, a folk/emo/metal/ska band, and this is our second show ever! We'll be playing along with The Sera-Tones and Negative Glow
We are the Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space, a folk/emo/metal/ska band, and this is our second show ever! We'll be playing along with The Sera-Tones and Negative Glow
Fantastic little story about everyone's favorite mathematician / comedy musician. 🧵
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
August 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fantastic little story about everyone's favorite mathematician / comedy musician. 🧵
I'll be playing with my randomly-assigned (but totally awesome) ska/folk/metal/emo band Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space as part of the Band In A Hat Showcase on Sunday (6/22),
June 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I'll be playing with my randomly-assigned (but totally awesome) ska/folk/metal/emo band Magical Space Wizards from Outer Space as part of the Band In A Hat Showcase on Sunday (6/22),
@standupmaths.bsky.social
That beard-growing gag was just *mwah* 😙🤌
Question: Did you intentionally use a shot with a car driving by in the background? Or was that something you discovered in the edit?
That beard-growing gag was just *mwah* 😙🤌
Question: Did you intentionally use a shot with a car driving by in the background? Or was that something you discovered in the edit?
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@standupmaths.bsky.social
That beard-growing gag was just *mwah* 😙🤌
Question: Did you intentionally use a shot with a car driving by in the background? Or was that something you discovered in the edit?
That beard-growing gag was just *mwah* 😙🤌
Question: Did you intentionally use a shot with a car driving by in the background? Or was that something you discovered in the edit?
Today (5/1): First of May @jonathancoulton.bsky.social
Tomorrow (5/2): No Pants Day
Saturday (5/3): Free Comic Book Day
Sunday (5/4): Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You)
Monday (5/5): Cinco de Mayo
It's gonna be a packed weekend!
Tomorrow (5/2): No Pants Day
Saturday (5/3): Free Comic Book Day
Sunday (5/4): Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You)
Monday (5/5): Cinco de Mayo
It's gonna be a packed weekend!
May 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Today (5/1): First of May @jonathancoulton.bsky.social
Tomorrow (5/2): No Pants Day
Saturday (5/3): Free Comic Book Day
Sunday (5/4): Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You)
Monday (5/5): Cinco de Mayo
It's gonna be a packed weekend!
Tomorrow (5/2): No Pants Day
Saturday (5/3): Free Comic Book Day
Sunday (5/4): Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You)
Monday (5/5): Cinco de Mayo
It's gonna be a packed weekend!
Finally finished The Shadows of the Apt series (audiobook version).
Took me awhile; I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social wrote anything else while I was listening. *checks internet* ... oh dear
Took me awhile; I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social wrote anything else while I was listening. *checks internet* ... oh dear
April 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Finally finished The Shadows of the Apt series (audiobook version).
Took me awhile; I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social wrote anything else while I was listening. *checks internet* ... oh dear
Took me awhile; I wonder if @aptshadow.bsky.social wrote anything else while I was listening. *checks internet* ... oh dear
Sometimes I want to know about a thing, but I don't have the right words to do a web search. So I'm asking my favorite linguistics communicators to see if they can help.
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social @superlinguo.bsky.social
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@gretchenmcc.bsky.social @superlinguo.bsky.social
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April 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Sometimes I want to know about a thing, but I don't have the right words to do a web search. So I'm asking my favorite linguistics communicators to see if they can help.
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social @superlinguo.bsky.social
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@gretchenmcc.bsky.social @superlinguo.bsky.social
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@12tone.nebula.tv I was watching one of your recent videos, and a little footnote popped up, and I was happy to see that it stuck around long enough for me to read it.
Later, there was another one, but it was gone before I could read it.
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Later, there was another one, but it was gone before I could read it.
1/4
April 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@12tone.nebula.tv I was watching one of your recent videos, and a little footnote popped up, and I was happy to see that it stuck around long enough for me to read it.
Later, there was another one, but it was gone before I could read it.
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Later, there was another one, but it was gone before I could read it.
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$6 haul from the Monroe County Public Library book sale, including books by @badmachinery.com and @skottieyoung.bsky.social
Also, I found a mint-condition, fancy-ass hardback "Dictionary of the Khazars" (male edition) hiding in the reference section.
Also "The Right to Arm Bears".
Also, I found a mint-condition, fancy-ass hardback "Dictionary of the Khazars" (male edition) hiding in the reference section.
Also "The Right to Arm Bears".
March 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
$6 haul from the Monroe County Public Library book sale, including books by @badmachinery.com and @skottieyoung.bsky.social
Also, I found a mint-condition, fancy-ass hardback "Dictionary of the Khazars" (male edition) hiding in the reference section.
Also "The Right to Arm Bears".
Also, I found a mint-condition, fancy-ass hardback "Dictionary of the Khazars" (male edition) hiding in the reference section.
Also "The Right to Arm Bears".
Everyone keeps telling me to sell my Tesla. And I get it. The CEO is an incomprehensibly shitty snotgoblin who has done a fuckton of damage (and who seems to be playing some weird kind of Nazi-chicken with the country).
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March 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Everyone keeps telling me to sell my Tesla. And I get it. The CEO is an incomprehensibly shitty snotgoblin who has done a fuckton of damage (and who seems to be playing some weird kind of Nazi-chicken with the country).
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Today is the anniversary of the very first Rickroll!
March 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today is the anniversary of the very first Rickroll!
Happy Våffeldagen everybody!
Go out and eat waffles!
Go out and eat waffles!
March 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Happy Våffeldagen everybody!
Go out and eat waffles!
Go out and eat waffles!
Happy Ramadan/Purim/Holi/π-Day!
March 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Happy Ramadan/Purim/Holi/π-Day!
Name a thing you've done to make a comment short enough to fit into a single post.
*replaced three periods with a single ellipsis character*
*replaced three periods with a single ellipsis character*
March 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Name a thing you've done to make a comment short enough to fit into a single post.
*replaced three periods with a single ellipsis character*
*replaced three periods with a single ellipsis character*
@neorsd.org What's your opinion on garbage disposals?
January 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@neorsd.org What's your opinion on garbage disposals?
I made a typo today that raise some interesting questions about how my brain processes language while typing.
tl;dr
I intended to write "look" but I was thinking about the word "let" and I ended up writing "leck".
#linguistics
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tl;dr
I intended to write "look" but I was thinking about the word "let" and I ended up writing "leck".
#linguistics
1/3
January 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I made a typo today that raise some interesting questions about how my brain processes language while typing.
tl;dr
I intended to write "look" but I was thinking about the word "let" and I ended up writing "leck".
#linguistics
1/3
tl;dr
I intended to write "look" but I was thinking about the word "let" and I ended up writing "leck".
#linguistics
1/3
Saw the license plate QOVFEFE, and I have questions... but I don't actually want them answered.
January 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Saw the license plate QOVFEFE, and I have questions... but I don't actually want them answered.
@lingthusiasm.bsky.social On the topic of the linguistics of politeness, I have the following anecdote from a few days ago.
In the middle of telling a story to her family, my 10-year old niece stops to say "Dad, you don't have to say 'mm-hm' to everything I say!"
In the middle of telling a story to her family, my 10-year old niece stops to say "Dad, you don't have to say 'mm-hm' to everything I say!"
December 30, 2024 at 12:26 AM
@lingthusiasm.bsky.social On the topic of the linguistics of politeness, I have the following anecdote from a few days ago.
In the middle of telling a story to her family, my 10-year old niece stops to say "Dad, you don't have to say 'mm-hm' to everything I say!"
In the middle of telling a story to her family, my 10-year old niece stops to say "Dad, you don't have to say 'mm-hm' to everything I say!"
It's Robert C. Baker's birthday today. Eat a chicken nugget in his honor.
Nugget Man
YouTube video by Paul and Storm - Topic
youtu.be
December 29, 2024 at 4:34 PM
It's Robert C. Baker's birthday today. Eat a chicken nugget in his honor.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(Limiting myself to non-graphical fiction for now.)
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(Limiting myself to non-graphical fiction for now.)
December 28, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(Limiting myself to non-graphical fiction for now.)
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(Limiting myself to non-graphical fiction for now.)
Out of context thing I said today:
"If I sense a Tommy coming, I'll flip my hair over my shoulder to get it out of the way."
"If I sense a Tommy coming, I'll flip my hair over my shoulder to get it out of the way."
November 26, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Out of context thing I said today:
"If I sense a Tommy coming, I'll flip my hair over my shoulder to get it out of the way."
"If I sense a Tommy coming, I'll flip my hair over my shoulder to get it out of the way."
Happy Mole Day everyone!
Mole Day is held every 10/23, in honor of Avogadro's number 6.02×10²³, which is really just a big chemistry retcon to make the old loosey-goosey units actually consistent.
The traditional food of Mole Day is guacamole, made with fresh avogados.
Mole Day is held every 10/23, in honor of Avogadro's number 6.02×10²³, which is really just a big chemistry retcon to make the old loosey-goosey units actually consistent.
The traditional food of Mole Day is guacamole, made with fresh avogados.
October 24, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Happy Mole Day everyone!
Mole Day is held every 10/23, in honor of Avogadro's number 6.02×10²³, which is really just a big chemistry retcon to make the old loosey-goosey units actually consistent.
The traditional food of Mole Day is guacamole, made with fresh avogados.
Mole Day is held every 10/23, in honor of Avogadro's number 6.02×10²³, which is really just a big chemistry retcon to make the old loosey-goosey units actually consistent.
The traditional food of Mole Day is guacamole, made with fresh avogados.
Does anyone else find typesetting things in LaTeX relaxing?
October 24, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Does anyone else find typesetting things in LaTeX relaxing?