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Michael Clerx
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I do sums to learn why heart cells beat. Computational biologist. Biological computer. Sometimes does experiments. Whippet owner. Makes bad jokes. He/him.
He's also someone you need to hear played, I think. Going by sheet music it's very often 8 bars of brilliance followed by weird filler. But hearing these pros do it...
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Slight renege on this. The goal keeper's job IS to keep your goal from becoming an achievement. Their mission is to keep it being a goal. Happy to concede that
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can see the case for robots. Makes itself, really
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Okay reading a bit more now it seems it took at least 5 successful apollo missions before the first successful nap. I think that's a massive achievement, considering I've had many a night ruined by the fact that I have arms. Fucking arms. Increasingly also a belly and a bladder and a prostate
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A few years ago I cuddled a space shuttle near Houston and a more rational man looked at me, momentarily perturbed, and said to his wife "It's a fake, right?"
Reader, it was. I cuddled it all the same.
Mmmmmmm
Space
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
You get there and have a nap? Before looking around? Before doing some moon jumps and picking up a rock and rummaging through some moon sand? Amazing how 1902 film gets to the same conclusions
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Imagine that. You're the first people on the moon. Mission control: Why don't you have a nice 3 hour sleep in your farty smelly 60s computer cave. And right up until the minute they got there everybody was OK with that as a plan.
Yes they didn't get to breathe in the luscious grassy moon air, but
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Pure focus. Zero hesitation #justwhippet
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I did feel a bit guilty about the photo opp. Seconds after this the candles were gone and the meat sliced up and she went to town on it with the kind of intensity you'd wish for in your working life
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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November 7, 2024 at 12:59 PM