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

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*

It turns out, pandemics are significantly harder to deal with than board game night had led me to believe.

Mash-ups that should exist:
- Take On Me, Country Roads
- Take Me On The Floor, Country Roads
- Take A Chance On Me, Country Roads
- Take Me To The River, Country Roads

Case in point: I finally managed to pick the one lock in my collection that I hadn’t defeated yet, so now I’m plotting how to acquire more cheap but difficult practice locks.

I donated blood this week, but they had trouble getting he blood flowing consistently, and ended up stopping before getting the full amount. Told me to drink more water next time.

Lock picking is a fun hobby, but it should really come with a warning that 80% of the activity is actually lock *collecting*.

Speed (1994) holds up surprisingly well. I mean, it was never Oscar material, but it has an idea and commits to it, hard. And I’ve always had a soft spot for Keanu.

The best film version of Les Misérables is “Ant-Man and the Wasp.”

If you grow up on a tidally-locked planet, I bet it’s pretty wild to visit one that’s all tilted and spinning on its axis.

Mr Sandman man me a sand
Person tv woman camera man