cute little label at the bottom of a climb that i thought applies to lots of things, including this "5.9"

Had fun slotting together my new Framework 13 laptop! Look how cute my purple USB port is!

Found on the whiteboard near my office

I'm in a terrible Zoom meeting, so secretly I'm watching cute kea videos on reddit in the background:
www.reddit.com/r/interestin...
Here's a kea we ran into on the Kepler track in NZ last year trying to get into my backpack

me too!

There's a Korean soap opera on Netflix (When the Stars Gossip) which has *Drosophila courtship in space* as a major plot point (Ep 2). They have Michael Reiser & lab's flight arenas (you can see Janelia & MIchael's initials on the panels). Great way to learn about Drosophila courtship!

Nice clouds here in Virginia tonight

Sunrise in Joshua Tree

Important advice! Get a clock for your workspace! I only recently got one for my office. Now I can tell when my meetings should end by casually looking past my colleague at the wall. My clock shows the path of Venus in an Earth-centric coordinate system

icicles off the roof at Janelia

we have some nice clouds here in VA today

I made bagels for the first time! Recommended!
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/cinn...

Claude was surprisingly helpful in fixing a dreaded Ubuntu kernel + NVIDIA driver incompatibility that occurred when my computer unexpectedly rebooted last night. I did double-check the sudo commands I was uncertain about before blindly typing them in...

My favorite slides -- as someone doing ML with an academic lab, it is pretty mind-boggling how huge spending is. It puts HHMI's $500M / 10 years commitment to AI funding in perspective...