Did you know the "Time" in "Timex" is for "Time Magazine" and not, you know, the thing a watch tells you?

sorry my dear anonymous multilingual wikipedia editor, but means retains the s in the singular. just a little trap for you!

you never feel more alive than when you get to a wikipedia page with weird grammar and errors. the cutting edge.

one of the most beneficial things i came across when learning french was the writing of a french-speaker who was pretty good at english but not great, producing all sorts of errors which betrayed the naturally french way of expressing things in a language i understood directly.

like all status symbols, centered divs will lose their cachet as they become easier and easier to produce

"neither" and "nor" are the types of words you'd get if you let software developers create a natural language

my main complaint with the odyssey, aside from the dialogue, was that the last third of the movie had multiple shots where the subject was just not in focus

I had read a lot about it online, but I finally saw the odyssey and I'm surprised I haven't seen ANYONE talk about how they used Avril Lavigne for the end credits

Madison, Wisconsin, home of the modern spelling of ecology.

proposal for a saner politics: no one may be elected to office who has a parent with a wikipedia page

as the wisconsin governor's primary is heating up, the local news begins a new polling initiative

foreshadowing: they called it a "conjecture"

The only real jobs are the ones that you can imagine seeing in a richard scarry book (e.g. wearing three watches on each arm)

killer proposed new name for the local elementary school.

if your self-worth is tied up in anything but the people around you and playing bocce, you are not going to make it

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 2w ago

It won’t stop at math. Machines getting better at thinking through abstract problems than we are is going to be an emotional crisis for lots of people. I wish we were engaging that directly instead of having ridiculous shadow-debates about GPUs’ inherent thirst for water.

New rule: the fourth place team cannot compete in the next World Cup

"Anger Hole", NYC, 2026.

I'm not sure if I was subconsciously getting pleasure from the wasteful plastic but canned water just really doesn't taste as good

Best solution to the penalty kick situation would just be that both teams are knocked out

eating a hot pocket for lunch as an adult is shameful you can, however, eat a microwaved stromboli from the mid-tier frozen pizza company

Deciding between Morocco and Canada will be difficult. Orange slices (too soon?) to all

Corroboration

big things are happening in Madison. The KFC is becoming a chicken tender place, the world buffet is becoming an asian buffet.

The only difference between a book club and a reading group is that in a reading group you need to finish the reading (and don’t need to bring a casserole) — both good

All concepts should be named by people who hate them