For a lab leak, it needs explanation, which leads us to your #2. The WIV laboratory was not near the market. Driving from the lab to the market takes about half an hour. Public transit somewhat longer. 3/

Yes. I added credits to the graph created over on Xitter. But I hadn't seen the full deets at the time

Congratulations, Wisconsin!

R.I.P. to a real one. What a creative force David Lynch was.

Bad arguments have human consequences (a snapshot from The Other Place. Caveat emptor, etc.).

I was cleaning up my work calendar today and cancelled a weekly meeting with a grad student that fell on Christmas Day.

This student has the right attitude.

This is from the PDF of a PhD dissertation I just downloaded from ProQuest. How does this kind of thing happen? It's not the first time I've seen it, and it's a very good dissertation! Are universities sending MS Word files to ProQuest? #AcademicSky

"His" channel has 3.58K subscribers and 44K videos! "Her" channel has fewer subscribers, but "only" 18K videos. Both started in September 2022, so she needs to pick up the pace. 4/

We had dancers on the floor. Here's a clip of a segment from Sam Cooke's "Bring it on Home"

I stumbled across Music Nomad's acousti-lok a week ago, and holy hell if this doesn't do the job. Just thread it onto the endpin jack and get a slightly displaced strap lock button. My first one arrived this morning and I tried it out before coming to the office. Need to order several more.

On my own acoustic instruments, I have a variety of solutions. Here are three of my instruments: a leather doohickey and a rubber washer for an acoustic guitar, an endpin jack separate from the strap pin so I can use a straplock on a dobro, and throughts and prayers for a mandolin

A non-political time-cleanse post for #musiciansky.

Acoustic string instrumentalists who use pickups and instrument straps have a common problem: an endpin jack doesn't hold the strap securely. Workarounds abound, but a lot of folks just embiggen the hole on the strap and risk a drop.

I don't make the rules

Mitch Hedberg: "I wish they made fajita cologne, cause that stuff smells good".