Would not put it past him to be a fan of red socks and quirky spelling

Heh the teen describes our current car as “the average of all cars”. It is *impossible* to find in a lot. I miss the eggplant car whose color I hated.

Have CT scanned anesthetized snakes and can confirm that putting them under (with injectable anesthetic) was way more of a rigamarole than I was expecting. Their heart was higher up than I was expecting—their whole bottom 85% is just a stretched out intestine.

We all deserve the results of projects that were gearing up or in full swing, which you’d paid for. When projects like this get cancelled, you lose out on way more than that last year of money, and you also can’t start it up again quickly. We all lose.

Day to day at work, I’m busy with scans and emails and worrying about funding and all the small practical bits that come with helping people learn more about the world. I do forget that I’m breathing rarefied air, how lucky I am to be a working class kid, breathing it.

I’m remembering it today.

Exactly—I phrased that poorly but we have gotten caught by that a couple of times.

Related: if it is smart enough to sense a passenger, it should be smart enough to let that passenger connect to Bluetooth.

If I don’t close all my tabs at the end of the day I have failed.