Out of context thing I said today:
"If I sense a Tommy coming, I'll flip my hair over my shoulder to get it out of the way."
| pronouns | he/him |
Dr. Wenn (Erik Wennstrom)
- 9 Followers
- 45 Following
- 160 Posts
Logician. Senior lecturer in CS at Indiana University. Swing dance teacher. Constructor of crosswords, interactive fiction, and Rube Goldberg machines. SFF/comic/videogame/boardgame/linguistics fan. Sucker for metanarratives, funny songs, and closed timeloop stories.
@zarfeblong I found the Penric and Desdemona audiobooks on Hoopla years ago and got hooked immediately. I'm surprised how little I hear people talking about it
@cstross My Bubbie had a cat who lined up the mice heads in the basement.
@joshmillard I'm surprised they haven't started selling them as an actual brand as a movie tie-in.
@superlinguo I constantly find myself thinking about the analogy you made between gestures and emoji in Because Internet and on @lingthusiasm
@zarfeblong Unless it's something I use all the time, I only let myself keep three of each. If I haven't used it in several years, I only keep one
Happy Mole Day everyone!
Mole Day is held every 10/23, in honor of Avogadro's number 6.02×10²³, which is really just a big chemistry retcon to make the old loosey-goosey units actually consistent.
The traditional food of Mole Day is guacamole, made with fresh avogados.
Does anyone else find typesetting things in LaTeX relaxing?
@jessamyn Although with them all starting "pin-", it kinda feels like cheating.
@jessamyn (accidentally hit send too early)
Plantae, pinophyta, pinopsida, pinales, pinaceae, pinus, ponderosa
Plantae, pinophyta, pinopsida, pinales, pinaceae, pinus, ponderosa