Dusty Chalk

Interesting that he has abandoned his trademark plain black leather jacket in favor of a snakeskin (?). I wonder if he will use the word, "molt".

Yeah, he's really just a shill for Skynet our soon-to-be-bot-overlords. That said, I was still very interested in everything he said about Vera Rubin. (The hardware platform that he just introduced.) Their usual rule is only change one or two things. They threw that out with this iteration and completely redesigned everything. My theory: they == AI. I don't think they actually were directly involved with the design. Having spent most of my life working in the cleared sector, no-one in the government that I knew would let this pass muster. Additional editorial note: The only way we are going to be able to defeat Skynet AI-used-for-evil is AI-used-for-good. And we are way behind with that. We are so fucked as a planet.

...it's getting good? I've got some bad news for you... 🙃

Happy birthday, Renato! (party favour noise)

Happy birthday, Dan! (party favour noise)

I don't think we need to declare war. I think if the world perceives the US as committing an act of war against a country, then we're at war. And the world will definitely perceive this as an act of war. Yay, we elected a total villain for president. Well done, MAGAts.

I endorse this message. https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/buldak

Late picture, and a little burnt, but it was delicious.

Buldak with cheese (which I made)

Aw, too fucking hip, that's amazing! Yay science and your nephew!

(sends airhugs) Condolences, both about your aunt and your veganism. No, seriously, you're a better man than I.

@Knuckledragger I'm sure you've heard this before, but I was triggered by this video to listen to the whole song

This would never happen at a Waffle House. No, seriously, RIP IHOP person.

Celery

Happy belated birthday! (party favour noise)

I agree about wired, but I will still say: Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro -- $180-ish $160 open box at Sweetwater ...because nothing isolates like they do, other than IEMs (nothing I've tried other than the Koss Pro 4AAA or whatever the nomenclature was, and those are uncomfortable as heck) There's a trick to making them not boom, but I don't remember what it is -- match the impedance? Headamp pico? Also, for $200-ish, you can get them in all black. Dan probably meant the WH1000 XM6 (my current housemate has the XM3s), which are over ear, sound good, and isolate enough that she doesn't hear me if anything is playing.

I did Chinese takeout, as I do every year. It was delicious.

I haven't seen another Alton Brown post, but there were a couple others, so: first episode of season 3 of American Gods

Happy birthday, Ric! (party favour noise)