Kevin

@kevin9y9.bsky.social

Science for fun and profit (but very little profit). Fannish. Pittsburgh, for the last little while. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

Taking a screencap of the fully booked shared-resource scheduling calendar now, so I can know at whom to be angry next week when they cancel their reservation last-minute, like the complete psycho that I am.

Today I was talking with my postdoc about R and how I refuse to learn it because having to draw an arrow when you mean "equals" is stupid, and then I had to explain BASIC to him, and he'd never heard of it, and I felt very old.

Whaddaya mean I can't cast a vote to eliminate one boy and one girl from this episode of Love Island UK season 1 (2015)? Voting is closed? Sounds like election fraud to me.

I'm reading a mystery novel from a new series, and in one and a half books there have been five deaths in this boarding-house (so far); honestly unclear how they remain in business. Giving the Bates Motel a run for its money.

Like a fool, I took a nap in the early afternoon and then brewed a half pot of coffee SO instead of going to bed at my normal 8:30pm, I am instead having a glass of red wine and watching a remake of "Red Sonja" that I picked up at the library earlier; it is going to be terrible, I predict.

FFS, just put normal quantities of things on sale. Even Gaston can't handle this shit. (Also glad to see the Big Egg Crisis is definitely over; happily the prices of egg-containing products have also... wait, no, I'm being informed "not even")

3 dozen eggs for 95 cents, but you must buy 36 goddamned fucking eggs.

I'd like to apologize to the cast of love island uk s13 for calling them whores (gender neutral) because I have now gone back and watched a few episodes of s1 and holy shit

I think you are finally ready for this jelly. My body is exactly the right amount of bootilicious for ya, baby. In fact, it may even be not quite bootilicious enough.

There are many things I dislike about AI, among them how slow it takes to load any webpage now while it tries to automatically confirm you are not a bot.

Trying one of those "croissant crust" frozen pizzas for the first time and I'm very impressed at how they managed to make it look and taste exactly like a croissant doesn't.

Past-me put the clean laundry on the bed to force Present-me to put it away properly, but Present-me doesn’t negotiate with terrorists and moved it onto the chair.

11 hrs later and the difference between the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers is more striking. I routinely forget that the Mon flows North and when there is more heavy weather South of us, this is when it turns muddy. Shout -out to @raypetelinwx.bsky.social, KDKA's meteorologist, for the reminder.

Aerial view of Pittsburgh and the
three rivers at 6:00 p.m. showing the water of the near river almost a brick red and with a red arrow pointing the direction of flow, with a normal blue gray looking river on the other side of a triangle land point
Hiding in the Burgh@hidingintheburg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two-tone rivers on a warm and muggy morning in #Pittsburgh at 7:40. Just ten minutes later, a pink glow as clouds start to clear.