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@grammargirl I've always enjoyed the fact that normally "affect" is a verb and "effect" is a noun -- but "affect" is a noun in psychology and "effect" is a verb meaning "cause" (while the noun "cause" means the opposite of the noun "effect").

Worf should open a restaurant with the tagline, "It is a good day to dine."

RT @fioraesoterica@twitter.com
scientists train neural net to generate maps from aerial photos, then photos back from the maps.

turns out it isn't actually doing the latter step; it's steganographically hiding the data to recover the original image arxiv.org/pdf/1712.02950.pdf

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." BILL VAUGHAN

I want to know if the red cowboy boots in The Good Place were the same ones from How I Met Your Mother, and in turn from Farscape.

I don't care what brand of macaroni we buy as long as it glows in the dark.

I've reached the point in my cold where I'm coughing up phlegm the color and consistency of chewing gum, so I guess that's progress?

RT @PIGSquad@twitter.com
Get psyched for Global Game Jam 2019! We'll be hosting at the University of Portland in January :)
For full details about the site, visit our registration page! Tickets go on sale on the 7th.
bit.ly/pigsquadggj2019

Right there with you. I think I'm recovering, because I can no longer hear it when I blink.
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RT @ntcomplete@twitter.com
I'm ready to not have a cold any more.
twitter.com/ntcomplete/status/

RT @_cingraham@twitter.com
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
Word of the day NIKHEDONIA - The pleasurable anticipation of success before any actual work has been done.

Students often don't like curricular innovation or tech tools, but I got specific, positive feedback about interactive / self-grading materials I used this term (OpenDSA, rosalind.info).

Between patches and my beastly new machine, BattleTech runs nice and smooth. Still learning the controls...

RT @weirdtakoyaki@twitter.com
i like big butts and i cannot lie, my brother also likes big butts and cannot tell the truth, how will you escape our dungeon

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