Me: Can I get a Dr. House?
Mom: We have a Dr. House at home
The Dr. House at home:

(It me, I sprained my ankle)

Happy Birthday!

Alas, the last sentence of the abstract "The results suggest that limited access to publications may limit some scientific research from achieving its full impact." is perfectly juxtaposed with the "access this article" paywall.

Here are mine in western NY:

A few thousand people out here in Henrietta, NY for the "un-parade" by my estimation.

Okay, no cheating, just a great camera roll.

@americanair.bsky.social, please fix your aainflight certificates because chrome blocks your wifi by default when the certificate doesn't match! In case anyone else in a similar bind finds this, visiting the www.wifionboard.com site redirects you the the correct AA inflight page.

ChatGPT's new image generation algorithm is terrifying.

Unrelated, here's my 100% original character that is definitely legally distinct from the source material:

Anyway, here's the millet patch birds inadvertently planted below my bird feeder and my yield when I harvested ~1/3 of it to hopefully let the rest go to seed. No alt text because it's as described: a patch of millet, 2x2 ft, growing about 1.5 ft high, stages of growth, and a few bunches of grain.

Wow, it went by so fast that it feels like Photonics West was only yesterday! My colleague shared some nice snapshots of my talk, "Two-Color Laser System and Fiber Delivery for 2-Photon Microscopy and FLIM" and I would be remiss if I didn't post them here.

So apparently when you search for bluesky in the @googlesearch.bsky.social play store, you get a targeted ad for propaganda. Not cool.