Matt Brubeck @mbrubeck@mastodon.social

Take me down to tautology city where the grass is grass and the pretty are pretty

*slaps Walt Whitman* This bad boy can contain so many multitudes

Shout out to whoever put Jesus Jones’ “Right Here Right Now” on the PA system at the West Seattle mass vaccination site today. https://youtu.be/MznHdJReoeo

Information wants to be beer.

Doing a crossword this morning. Clue is “Cleaning aid,” six letters; middle letters are “TR.”

My spouse: HATRED?
Me: PETROL?

Aww yeah, it's time for aerial trams #seattle #westseattle

https://westseattleblog.com/2021/01/west-seattle-skylink-gondolas-aerial-trams-instead-of-light-rail/

Seattle 2021 Dystopian Chic Zoom Background

tired: Hedgehog
wired: Land Urchin

Carol, the ancient yuletide troll

This is the bat place.

This is almost 30 years late, but I *just* realized that the song title “A Murder of One” is a reference to the band’s name, “Counting Crows.”

Who called it “Seveneves” instead of “It’s Raining Moon”?

Technically, true “werewolves” are only found in the wild populations. Those who are domesticated and live in society are weredoggos.

The color of television, tuned to a red channel

Me on July 9th: Adding a drain_filter method to the #rustlang HashMap type should be pretty easy, just a wrapper around some existing code! https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/59618#issuecomment-656272068

Two months later, after filing ten PRs to seven seperate repos: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76458

By chapter three, George Orwell's 1984 has already predicted the creation of Zoom yoga classes.

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

Book 0: Dragon
Book 1: Eragon
Book 2: Fragon
Book 3: Gragon

All smartphones are foldable if you try hard enough.

Somebody in January 2020: I really hope I don’t have to go to any more funerals this year.

Monkey’s paw: *finger curls*