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i passed by a "free will baptist" church on the way to work, but i briefly misread the sign as "free wifi baptist" and all i could think was "well that's one way to convert people"

mildly bawdy trans humor 

if a statistician gets grs, is that p-hacking

(this one works either way!)

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bawdy humor 

if a linguist is loud in bed, is that an emphatic copula

i just had an amazing and/or ridiculous idea 

@typhlosion IRL speedpainting

what would my pokémon type be? wait, actually, never mind

i just had an amazing and/or ridiculous idea 

plein air rally

here's the concept: racers drive out to a predetermined area, paint a picture while there, then drive back to the starting point

race placement is determined by whoever gets back first with their painting; that result is combined in some way with a panel judgment of the painting to determine the overall winner of the event

having to get up before sunrise every day again just because some asshole a couple hundred years ago said we should set our clocks an hour forward in the spring is really demoralizing

if you are of the opinion that things should align and connect together in sensible ways, and that when you move something *only that thing* should move, then microsoft visio is not the diagramming software for you

i wonder how Holden Caulfield, who iirc had some homophobic feelings in Catcher in the Rye, felt later on in life when he learned about slang meanings of the term 'catcher'

update on pybeat: im tired of this project already. i think i overengineered it anyway

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update on pybeat: i was going about the architecture of this tool ENTIRELY WRONG

i am going to completely and utterly refactor it. it will be a library now. you'll import it into your bytebeat programs. this makes waaaaay more sense than how it works at present

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notch 

is my nomination for world's most irrelevant billionaire

@natsumisummer okay apparently it's the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web (which is built on top of the internet). tim berners-lee originally published "Information Management: A Proposal" on march 12, 1989

it's the internet's 30th birthday. happy birthday, you wonderful garbage fire

hello i made a thing github.com/Kasran/pybeat

it's a bytebeat tool for python! if you do not know what bytebeat is, here is a write-up by someone smarter than me: canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat

feel free to try it out and let me know if you come up with anything cool (also let me know if it breaks) (it will probably break)

(also let me know if it's hard to figure out how to use, i am bad at writing documentation)

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hello i made a thing github.com/Kasran/pybeat

it's a bytebeat tool for python! if you do not know what bytebeat is, here is a write-up by someone smarter than me: canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat

feel free to try it out and let me know if you come up with anything cool (also let me know if it breaks) (it will probably break)

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