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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. -- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago Skeets are my own+do not reflect views of employers past or present.
Hot take: the final chase scene in "Fast Five" is every bit as good as anything in "Ronin"
Yeah this moment was pretty great. Also every bit where we learned more details as to just how big a nerd Tom Hiddleston is. 😂🥹😍
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 2d agoWe were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED
@solomonrmissouri.com Ranger: You have my sword Elf : And my bow Necromancer: And my your brother.
Spouse finally got me to watch Game of Thrones, and because I am of a particular age and type of nerd, I keep thinking the Dothraki are called the Kilrathi
The day that Bloom County had a piece of the space shuttle (?) fall off and (in the final panel) plummet towards an unsuspecting penguin, with a little narrative box at the bottom that read "kids! Isn't this more exciting than Garfield?"
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3d agoIf you’re a comics fan, what’s the earliest comic book you can remember reading? And what kind of impression did it make on you?
I’m going to start going to random museums I have no expertise in and doing this. At the Natural History Museum: “We know that neanderthals worked in groups as large as a 1,000 individuals to hunt the few t-rex in Europe that had survived the meteor impact”.
In Otter News@in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d agoSounds like otter chaos.
The Ducktales theme song rips off Hall & Oates "You make my dreams come true"
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
this is probably the best thing written about neurodiversity, but also shows problems with the concept psyche.co/ideas/why-we...
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Downplay a book or movie: Iguanas of Autumn Twilight
Dr. Jonathan Schroden@jjschroden.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: The Two Amigos
Yall. I left academia a decade ago. This morning i got a LinkedIn message from one of my undergraduate researchers, sharing that they'd just defended their PhD thesis, and sharing the acknowledgments section, which thanked me for giving them their first experience in research. 🥹🥹🥹
Drive is the last movie soundtrack album I recall that captures a real vibe. And that you want to listen to *as an album.* Others include the Matrix, the Crow, and even Batman Forever. What are some good examples since?
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.RIP Kavinsky. The DRIVE (2011) title sequence (and prologue) is just one of the most magnetic and successful sequences in movie history and it's impossible to imagine any track other than "Nightcall" in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_z...
RIP Kavinsky. The DRIVE (2011) title sequence (and prologue) is just one of the most magnetic and successful sequences in movie history and it's impossible to imagine any track other than "Nightcall" in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_z...
Drive 4K HDR | Opening Credits Song - Nightcall
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"No scene is ever about the words being spoken." - Del Close
My admin took their laptop to IT bc my calendar had disappeared. When IT person fixed it they could suddenly see my calendar & apparently the reaction was *eyes pop* holy sh-- cow! Is this for real? Admin: yup IT: is *every* week like this? Admin: yup IT: damn, I sure wouldn't want THEIR calendar
Friends don't let friends read Drop Site News. (Standard disclaimer: all posts represent personal views only and not those of employers past or present)
And you may ask yourself, "Well... How did I get here?"
I don’t remember the exact line but I liked “would you please be quiet, I can’t hear my anxious inner monologue over your anxious outer monologue.”
You can't win Dungeons and Dragons Love Island if you keep giving people the lich
I am sharing this in my personal capacity. In my personal opinion, the use of Amdahl's law is thinking about carefully.
Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last wk.Everyone says AI will accelerate science. I don't think it will -- at least not in biology, and at least not soon. New post where I explain why, and how the productivity paradox can be resolved: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...
XXX State of the Union is insanely stupid but I have to give them credit for the creativity of "why don't we have a tank battle on an aircraft carrier that ends when the protagonist uses the catapult to send his wrecked one to crash into the bad guys' tank"
Actively demystifying the hidden curriculum is a key obligation of supervisors and mentors at all levels, including in the classroom, peer-to-peer mentoring, and in informal conversations. #academia #research #science #FirstGen
Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2w agoI think one of the most underrated skills of a good PhD supervisor is actively teaching you the hidden curriculum in academia.
Han Solo: alright Chewie, let's see if this thing works. translator on Chewbacca: ayyyy, I'm Chewbacca ovah heah Han: translator off
@professormusgrave.bsky.social I give you, my four year old and two year old in the cockpit of a medevac helicopter. My two year old reaches for “buttons relevant for making stuff move”. “Oop don’t touch that”