DavidLawrenceMiller @millerdl@mastodon.social

For the past year I’ve been reading a few words from Moby Dick every day. I call it MOBY DICK ONE BITE AT A TIME. I’m now on chapter 3. Will finish the novel in roughly 100 years.

He ran into the situation room clutching a sheaf of papers.

“Madam President, we have the first translation of the Arecibo message. 95% confidence.”
“And?”
“A short message in ASCII encoding. It says ‘link in bio’.”
“Does anyone know what this means?”
“If I may, Madam President-“
Eyebrows raised.
“Simpkins, Madam President. With the Comms team. It appears the aliens are familiar with instagram.”

A thing I’ve been doing: every time Richard Feynman is held up as a model genius scientist, or I find myself holding him up so, I remind myself that he held meetings in strip clubs, *AND HE WROTE THIS IN SURELY, YOU’RE JOKING*, and teenage me didn’t realize how much of a problem that was (and that’s just One Example of his horrendous behavior)

McMurdo station, Observation Hill via https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm?t=1

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Amundsen-Scott South Pole station via https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spWebCam.cfm

Davis station via http://www.antarctica.gov.au/webcams/davis

*slowly pushes a floppy disk off the edge of a table*

KonMari Method: Keep only those things that speak to the heart, and discard items that no longer spark joy.

Katamari Method: Roll your stuff up in a ball, put it in space

these are Sri Lankan Frogmouths

actually.jpg h/t Fipi Lele

https://github.com/lifewinning/networked-terraforming This is the syllabus for the two-part session I'll be doing as part of @sfpc's Code Societies program that starts today, very excited to meet the students and the class project

knuckle tats:

THREE WEIRD HANDS

RRS Ernest Shackleton via https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/images/webcams/rrs-ernest-shackleton-webcam/