Eric of the Poe People

Day 14 was sometimes higher, sometimes lower. #100DaysOfCode

a cartoon character is standing in front of a machine that says ' parar ' on the bottom Alt: A cartoon character of a pharmacist is exulting in front of a machine. Oh wait, that's Doofenshmirtz from Disney's "Phineas and Ferb."

The Egg-stractinator comes with a self-destruct button for some reason.

Day 13 no longer bugs me. #100DaysOfCode

Day 12 is out of scope. After needing to train in something else, I'm back in #100DaysOfCode

There was a German in valet parking. A Belgian and a Swiss at odds over vol-au-vents in the kitchen. A small contingent of African spies (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon) on the janitorial staff, relatively careless about Francophone eavesdroppers. She spotted a very young and nervous Turkmen agent shoving a dead-drop spike into the eye of a gaudy reindeer statue at Christmastime, and duly stole it, learning his real name (Kasymguly) and workname (Kevin) in the process. The waitstaff had a Russian agent named Vladimir and a Ukrainian agent named Volodymyr and they'd nearly killed each other in the west parking lot one night. The Polish agent Wtodzimierz, who was considerably older and world-weary, smoked a cigarette, watched them brawl, and predicted they'd both be fired for coming to work with visible bruises. He was right, which was a pity; Volodymyr had been very handsome indeed. They were replaced, in due time, by Dmitri and Dmytro, at which point she began to wonder if Kyiv and Moscow were being deliberate about all this for their own inscrutable reasons.

sorry to poast too much about this but its my first published fiction since high school and i had fun imagining the many many spies at mar a lago
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This week's weather in KC

¡Ja ja! Estoy aprendiendo la idioma y tuve que pensarlo. Gracias por compartir el chiste.

Cuéntanos

One pill: you keep on truckin', blissfully unaware.

The other pill; you see the world as it truly is -- you were manufactured en masse by humans and are controlled by one in the driver's seat. Life is a highway and you have no free wheel.

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A colorful drawing of a gray fish riding a classic red bicycle, with the name "Fish Peddler" on the chain guard. The day is beautiful, partly cloudy with wildflowers in the foreground and a ponded field at bordered behind by trees. The fish is traveling along a dirt path and a sign along its edge declaring it a bike route. Artist: Ray Troll.

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is singing into a microphone . Alt: Frank Sinatra in a tuxedo and bow tie is singing into a microphone. He stylishly points to the camera like he's the hippest cat in the cocktail lounge.

🎤 Do bee do bee do 🎶

Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue,...

A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, saturation, and lightness aren’t shaped by culture or experience—they’re built directly into the mathematical structure of how we see color.

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Tom Sawyer approves of this pedagogy!

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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a cartoon character with a beard and glasses is sitting at a table in a dark room . Alt: Rygel XVI, from the 90s show, "Farscape," is a short alien with prominent eyebrows and a glib smile. Here, he is smiling like he loves the smell of his own toots.

I know of one that farts helium

A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!

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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

A detail from a comic book page of a closeup drawing of a brown squirrel with a pink nose and a pink collar. The squirrel is surprised at what she has just been told by her human friend and replies back, "WHAT?! You got accepted into college and you're not even gonna major in SQUIRRELS?" -- from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, issue 1.

Awesome! I had forgotten this bon nut.

French and Spanish call "y" the "Greek I" (I Grecia, y griega). Are there any other non-latin languages that have a letter that calls out to its alien origin?

An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.

His final gesture says, "eh, what else is new?"

Days 9-11 are dealt with. #100DaysOfCode

Holy shit, this thread is incredible.

Day 8 has been functionally good. #100DaysOfCode

Roger is a verb of similar meaning. He's double the trouble.