Although I never submitted to it, I made several appearances in the now-defunct quote database on bash.org (QDB). I’m dealing with a broken keyboard now, and went to dig hard to find this classic in the Wayback machine. I thought I would put it back on the web: It was, in fact, horrble.
reflections
Had a discussion about how to pronounce the name of Google’s chatbot. Turns out, we were all wrong.
Me: Do you want your coffee in a Japanese or Western style tea cup? M: Yunomi. Me: Apparently not as well as you think I do!
My current playlist is this diorama of Lulu the Piggy channeling Tupac Shakur in a toy vending machine in the basement of New World Mall in Flushing Chinatown.
A concerned nutritional epidemiologist in Tokyo realizes that if you are what you eat, that means… It’s a similar situation in Seoul, albeit with less oil and more confidence.
I realize that because I have several chairs, the phrase “my chair” is ambiguous. To reduce confusion, I will refer to the head of my academic department as “my office chair” going forward.
The Wikipedia article on antipopes can be pretty confusing! If you’d like to be even more confused, it can help with that!
Mika and I recently spent two weeks biking home to Seattle from our year in Palo Alto. The route was ~1400 kilometers and took us past 10 volcanoes and 4 hot springs. To my delight, the route also took us past at least 8 hairdressers with supposedly funny pun names! Plus two in Oakland on …
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I found what appears to be a “turtile” on the whiteboard in the Community Data Science lab at the University of Washington. [See previous discussion for context.]