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Since I’m not seeing her name nearly enough on the press, let’s give the attention Katie Bouman deserves. Thanks to her, we are now possible to see the first ever image of a black hole, something that people talked 200 years ago for the first time. It’s no longer a myth. We are girls and we can be whatever we want to be. Einstein would be proud of you, Katie. Thank you!

Here you can see a huge stack of hard drives she used for Messier 87’s black hole image data.

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aesop’s fables are so funny because mostly they have a very clear moral outlined in the last sentence but sometimes they’re like this one where the moral is just ‘woah what the fuck? what the Fuck? get the fuck out of my house’

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Nebriuson, Carcharodon Astra Captain, by @malcharion.

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tonight’s episode of talks machina was a particular brand of insanity 

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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

finding someone aesthetically pleasing

being sexually attracted to someone

being romantically attracted to someone

#and its ok if you can’t figure out what the fuck you’re actually feeling

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hey, @bunjywunjy - this might be your jam (and any other dinosaur enthusiasts, it’s a heck of a read)

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Тигроснежка и семь котиков

Тигроснежка и семь котиков

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I have become known at my library as the dude who knows how to deal with computers.  I’m not in IT, and I don’t know shit about hardware, but I’m pretty good at figuring out what is causing an error, or how to perform a task in a specific program.  

I have also joked repeatedly that all I really need to do is stand near one of the student computers in the library and it’ll start working again.  I’ve no idea why, but for some reason errors that happen repeatedly just go away whenever I come to look at the computer.

Last week, I helped a student who was having issues with his laptop.  Multiple programs had frozen, but he hadn’t saved his paper, and luckily I was able to get it working long enough for him to save three straight days of work that he otherwise would’ve lost.  It’s worth noting that I spent most of the time I was trying to fix it whispering, “C’mon, baby, work with me” at his computer, because… just because, okay.  It’s what I do, it works, don’t question it.

Anyway, I was around late at work last night, waiting for my ride, when the student worker came back to my office and said there was a small group of students looking for me, and could I give them a hand even though I was off the clock?

Sure, why not.

I came out to find a group of six students, including the guy I helped last week, at a table clustered around one laptop.  I rolled up, said, “Hey, what can I help you with?”, and the guy said, “Can you just hang out here for a second?”

Sure, my dude.  I’m off the clock, I’m listening to a podcast, I can chill at a table with your group until my ride shows up, if you want.

So I spend some time flipping through my phone, only half paying attention, figuring they’re finishing something up and they’ll ask their question as soon as they’re done.  But after a minute, the guy says, “It worked!” and there was a chorus of excitement from the rest of the group. They all thanked me, and excused themselves to go back to class.

Turns out they had a group presentation, and the laptop they were trying to present from had froze up on them.  Not knowing what to do, this guy apparently told his group there was a computer wizard in the library, and that merely being in my presence might be enough to fix it.  To be fair, he… was not wrong.

I just find it delightful that this has become such A Thing that students are now seeking me out.  Not to ask a question, or get some help, but just to stand near their device and share my mythical computer-fixing aura. It’s like being a terribly benign cryptid.

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this is peak Craigslist

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At first I felt sorry for the dog, but then..

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bless

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Every moment Fjord is impressed with and/or compliments Caleb in Episode 3 of Critical Role

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me, 7 years later: have you heard the good news about vilkas and farkas

oh excuse me and also aela the huntress

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That’s right, it’s finally happened, I’ve fallen face-first into Critical Role and now I’m doomed. Here’s my very first bit of art for it, undoubtedly the first of many, based on a bit of dialogue between Beau and Molly that I immediately pictured in my mind. 

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No big deal or anything but CW Seed pretty much uploaded every Whose Line US episode on their site. “All the Drew and Aisha, too” as they put it. You can watch them all for free. You do have to be in the United States to access the site but there are plug ins and proxies around as we all know.