Chris Vermilion
@verm.me
Software nerd. Order Muppet. Recovering physicist. Not really that sad of a dad. https://verm.me
May Giant Halloween Pikachu bless your timeline
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
May Giant Halloween Pikachu bless your timeline
The Cor Blok paperbacks are great, too!
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Cor Blok paperbacks are great, too!
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Went apple picking today. You never know where you’ll find unpatched OpenSSL in the wild.
October 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Went apple picking today. You never know where you’ll find unpatched OpenSSL in the wild.
Get your jollies in now, folks, any minute Stephen Miller is going to make it illegal to point out that Charlie Kirk looked like the autopilot from Airplane! (1980).
September 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Get your jollies in now, folks, any minute Stephen Miller is going to make it illegal to point out that Charlie Kirk looked like the autopilot from Airplane! (1980).
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's the 20th anniversary of Robyn's self-titled album, her third but first on her own label, and it's okay to turn off the internet, put it on repeat, and get back to work healing this broken fucking world in the morning.
September 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's the 20th anniversary of Robyn's self-titled album, her third but first on her own label, and it's okay to turn off the internet, put it on repeat, and get back to work healing this broken fucking world in the morning.
Ok, this is fun. Here are Some Guys, arranged as an alignment chart of early-2000's baseball.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ok, this is fun. Here are Some Guys, arranged as an alignment chart of early-2000's baseball.
Not sure which first-century heresy this entry for “Christ” is committing
August 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Not sure which first-century heresy this entry for “Christ” is committing
I’ve been reading @adapalmer.bsky.social’s Inventing the Renaissance for months now because I keep getting distracted and chasing down references. Using an ILL request to enjoy a funny index entry might be a new frontier in indulging my inner grad student.
August 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I’ve been reading @adapalmer.bsky.social’s Inventing the Renaissance for months now because I keep getting distracted and chasing down references. Using an ILL request to enjoy a funny index entry might be a new frontier in indulging my inner grad student.
Happy International Cat Day to absolutely no cats other than Mariners closer Andres Muñoz’s cat Matilda
August 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Happy International Cat Day to absolutely no cats other than Mariners closer Andres Muñoz’s cat Matilda
get in losers, we’re making Web 2000
August 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
get in losers, we’re making Web 2000
OED has one prewar citation, from 1918, although it’s quoted in something later:
July 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
OED has one prewar citation, from 1918, although it’s quoted in something later:
One of my favorite moments of joy in our fallen world is the arrival of a pre-order I’d forgotten about. A free gift from past Chris!
July 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
One of my favorite moments of joy in our fallen world is the arrival of a pre-order I’d forgotten about. A free gift from past Chris!
Ah, digging into the first “blowjob” result, it’s quoting a booklet of Bloomberg-isms. And the author can’t resist using “blow-job” in the next sentence just to make clear that the quoted usage is Not How We Would Do It.
July 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Ah, digging into the first “blowjob” result, it’s quoting a booklet of Bloomberg-isms. And the author can’t resist using “blow-job” in the next sentence just to make clear that the quoted usage is Not How We Would Do It.
Hmm, it’s not entirely conclusive, but a search for “blowjob” yields only 11 hits, and the most recent is 2020. Meanwhile, it’s 2025 and you can’t search a multi-word phrase properly on their website, so here is the first result for “blow job” (from today):
July 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Hmm, it’s not entirely conclusive, but a search for “blowjob” yields only 11 hits, and the most recent is 2020. Meanwhile, it’s 2025 and you can’t search a multi-word phrase properly on their website, so here is the first result for “blow job” (from today):
That’s more of a Favorite than a Best list, I’m not a music critic. Honorable mentions:
July 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
That’s more of a Favorite than a Best list, I’m not a music critic. Honorable mentions:
Didn’t expect to find the words I needed to hear this week in a 2018 DC Gritty Reboot comic of Snagglepuss as a closeted 1950’s playwright facing HUAC, but here we are.
July 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Didn’t expect to find the words I needed to hear this week in a 2018 DC Gritty Reboot comic of Snagglepuss as a closeted 1950’s playwright facing HUAC, but here we are.
back on my bullshit (reading an obscure university press book I borrowed on interlibrary loan because I read about it in a footnote)
June 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
back on my bullshit (reading an obscure university press book I borrowed on interlibrary loan because I read about it in a footnote)
babe what’s wrong, you haven’t even touched your creamy goddess
June 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
babe what’s wrong, you haven’t even touched your creamy goddess
Must be his Italian cousin
June 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Must be his Italian cousin