Tom Stearns @tomstearns@octodon.social
I do stuff sometimes. Teaching, research, data analysis, sometimes write a song or write a thing. I keep busy. What do you do? Why?
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I woke up an #octodon was back from the dead! Hooray admins!
Algunos hoy han mencionado canciones para coger. Aquí es mi primera entrada: Massive Attack.
magnificent looping GIFs by Nicola Gastaldi
http://www.gasta.org/ https://mastodon.social/media/dGnsSLEnUT-OE4V4xlM
fun with lenses
#drwho
Things TV shows need to stop already:
1. Serial killers: there aren't 5,000 serial killers per midsize nation. And some of us are really sick of the cliches.
2. "Multiple personality disorder." For that matter, you should probably just stop doing "mental illness" until you get a few clinical psychologists to explain why your plots and characters are stupid.
Okay, just two things for now, but those are pretty big. TV quality, overall would increase, like, 23%, if you just cut those out.
I have unread emails older than these feet.
Dear Mastodon Admins,
I didn't want to admit this, but the inter-instance drama is pretty compelling. Please take careful notes and possible consider acting out the dramatic episodes with the use of puppets or stuffies or something. Kthx.
12 years ago a lovely person made me the best #magneticPoetry set ever. Sometimes I still play with it.
Sometimes I make non-numbers into numbers then make them do very strange things and then I turn them back into non-numbers. Mostly, though, I try to trick people who paid money to know things they don't really want to know to know the things they don't really want to know.
You?
Something something tree storm
...and here's the "hello" song. Seriously, Ariel is pretty impressive.
In the future, we won't be able to rely on the technical incompetence of autocrats. This shit just keeps getting scarier.
Trump's team attempts to purge past press releases from the web:
http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/donald-trump-campaign-muslim-ban-press-releaes
A talented student singing her "goodbye" song (written for children), apparently unaware of the bittersweet nature of singing this to her labmates a few days before she graduates.
(If I can't see this photo posted in my timeline, then it didn't post, right? I'm not spamming people with the same photo over and over?)
I have worked with about ten great undergrads this year in mentored research.
I invited them to have an end-of-year party at my house this evening. I haven't hosted a party in, literally, 15 years. They like drinking so I bought some... beer? and hard lemonade? I chose by label color. People like chips and dip, right? And hot dogs?
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/0a/0a3d2a086eaafe832d58281eeab1858cd3bd3e3d4736e582a383b3aee933a14c.jpg
I've never lost my love for taking the kinds of photos that first-year photography students probably take. Which probably means I'll never be a pro photographer, but after two decades in a completely different branch of academia I think that was already pretty obvious.
She is (almost) all the reasons.
