Nick
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My instinct served me well, and I switched from my work computer to my personal phone before searching for what the "Spearmint Rhino" is.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My instinct served me well, and I switched from my work computer to my personal phone before searching for what the "Spearmint Rhino" is.
Whose work are you translating here? I know that a lot of folks (e.g. Huygens, Liebniz) came up with some version of it.
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Whose work are you translating here? I know that a lot of folks (e.g. Huygens, Liebniz) came up with some version of it.
Wonderful; thank you! I hated to go all <citation needed> on you, but since I was going to send the stat to at least one PhD academic librarian of my acquaintance...
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wonderful; thank you! I hated to go all <citation needed> on you, but since I was going to send the stat to at least one PhD academic librarian of my acquaintance...
Bret, that stat is fascinating, and a couple of academics I know would be interested to see it. Do you have a reference for it?
October 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Bret, that stat is fascinating, and a couple of academics I know would be interested to see it. Do you have a reference for it?
The second rule is: ARE YOU ACTUALLY FLIPPING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? PUT THAT DAMN THING DOWN AND GET AN AUTOPIPET, YOU ABSOLUTE NUTBAR!
January 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The second rule is: ARE YOU ACTUALLY FLIPPING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? PUT THAT DAMN THING DOWN AND GET AN AUTOPIPET, YOU ABSOLUTE NUTBAR!
Every time I find myself on a Wikipedia page reading about some random bit of evolution (e.g. the Euarchonta hypothesis), there's good odds that I started by looking up something related to one of your posts (e.g. where in the phylogenetic tree Onychomys is situated) and then wandered.
January 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every time I find myself on a Wikipedia page reading about some random bit of evolution (e.g. the Euarchonta hypothesis), there's good odds that I started by looking up something related to one of your posts (e.g. where in the phylogenetic tree Onychomys is situated) and then wandered.
I had heard the story of the Smoot before, but I had no idea that he went on to lead ANSI and ISO! That is so hilariously appropriate that, in fiction, it would be labeled as "too on-the-nose."
January 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I had heard the story of the Smoot before, but I had no idea that he went on to lead ANSI and ISO! That is so hilariously appropriate that, in fiction, it would be labeled as "too on-the-nose."