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Jim Eaton
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Coffee. Dad. Nerd
Reminded of this song, for no reason
Association - Windy (1967)
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November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss, Charlie Brown?
Forget it, Charlie Brown; it’s Chinatown.
No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here’s the thing, the execution of the case doesn’t need to be well done. It drains resources from the defendant, it causes stress, and hurts the defendants public image. It’s a master class of how to inflict maximum harm without technically doing anything.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“I was a litigator for 21 years, and it’s safe to say that I never witnessed the level of legal incompetence that we are witnessing from the Trump administration,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | The Comey Case Is a Comedy of Errors
The incompetence of the Trump administration is interfering with some of its worst excesses.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The telehealth hold message reminding me that I don’t need to be frail as I age is the perfect split between I am old enough that the message is appropriate but young enough that my reaction is GFY OSUWMC. What I time to be alive.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I don’t wanna sounds like a stuff today is too loud guy because I am not but I could hear post the touchdown rendition of seven nation army in my kitchen. With the doors and windows closed. IN NY KITCHEN!
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Why would anyone want Cheetos without artificial colors and flavors? Artificial flavors are the entire reason to eat Cheetos. And the color, nuclear orange, pairs perfectly.
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The premise that the Reagan era was somehow less dangerous or something of which we should aspire is deeply flawed and frankly insulting.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Could Trump prove to be a temporary aberration on the Republican Party? Might it “return to its Reaganite essence once the man who has done so much to trash it finally leaves the Oval Office in a few years?” Damon Linker asks in a guest essay.
Opinion | Reagan, Not Trump, Is the Real G.O.P. Aberration
Why the future of the G.O.P. will likely be guided by the right’s political DNA.
nyti.ms
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Tfw the smell from your water bottle lid reminds you of that time your water bottle lid gave you The Tummy Troubles
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Voting in person is such a treat. Ok, so my polling place makes a Norman Rockwell painting look like a still from an active war zone but it’s just so great. I sure hope we get to keep doing it.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a gif
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
They make a whole bunch of various KitKat flavors, which is fine, but the regular flavor variant that is shaped like The Count is crazy weird. It tastes right, but it’s one piece the size of the normal 2 and my brain can’t process it.
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wasn’t all that worried about an economic downturn until I received a Ticketmaster email about available tOSU football tickets.
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s really Octobering this chilly, gray October morning in Ohio
October 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
October 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Usually, I love nerds but cmon, why’d they gotta ruin the rat hole!?
A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.

Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.
The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat
A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.
nyti.ms
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Starting work on a construction project at 7:30am on a Sunday should be illegal.
October 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I will never understand the hero worship for this guy. You don’t get credit for keeping everyone alive during a completely preventable and unnecessary emergency. He knew this trip would be a disaster and he knew he wasn’t prepared but went anyway. That is negligence and it is wrong.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 8
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was ill-equipped for the voyage and Shackleton was aware.
Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as legend held, researcher says
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was ill-equipped for the voyage and Shackleton was aware.
n.pr
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Why are there ducks in the counter top of the dawn commercial? Why don’t the people notice them? Why do such clearly affluent people not use the dishwasher? Are they ghost ducks!?
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’m starting a new job Monday and my current job just disabled my login credentials. It takes every ounce of professionalism I have not to just walk out.
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m not a national security expert but having the entire leadership chain of all our armed forces in the same place at the same time seems ill conceived
President Trump plans to attend an unusual gathering of U.S. generals and admirals at a military base in Virginia on Tuesday. The event comes at a moment when Trump has pushed for a new kind of war-fighter culture at the Pentagon.
Trump Plans to Attend Gathering of U.S. Military Officers
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world for an unusual gathering.
nyti.ms
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Listening to a concert recording of rage against the machine while checking your 401k balance is maybe not an example of artists intent
September 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Turn lanes: get into the lane, then slow down. You don’t need to come to a complete stop in the driving lane and then move into the turn lane to turn. And use your damned then signals.
Ayo serious Question
Quote this with your biggest pet peeve about Driving
September 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I hope some of the dedicated investigative journalists remaining are looking into the connection between J&J and the administration. No way they toss one of the most widely recognized brands on the planet into the fray for giggles.
September 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As I see more and more nostalgia for the 80s and 90s, I’m curious, for those of us who were actually alive during these decades, do you remember them overall as positive time periods?
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM