The Birdbassador

Once again another "I'm in the wrong field" paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222500507X

in speed (1994), sandra bullock and keanu reeves deal with a peril via movement through space (romance ensues). in the lake house (2006), sandra bullock and keanu reeves deal with a peril via movement through time (romance ensues). we are therefore overdue for a movie where bullock and reeves must conceptualize and then navigate five-dimensional velocities to solve problems (romance ensues).

Computer: tea, earl grey, hot, hd artstation trending photorealistic high quality detailed

@plut0nian@jorts.horse also apologies for the blurry picture but i was at an art of moby dick exhibit today and the "moby dick but all the bits that aren't gay redacted" was very funny to me

i think nearly all books, and most academic papers, could be improved by including regency-style descriptive chapter headings that are like "chapter 4: in which a promise is breached" or "chapter 7: a fracas! mr. weathersby learns a lesson; de gustibus non est disputandum"

looking through the infinite jest footnote visualization and feeling myself becoming Deranged https://samizdat.co/digest/notes/

you already know what time it is

jock

we need to put the "nerd" back in "music nerd." a music nerd should not be cool. a music nerd should be into a second or third tier gilbert and sullivan light opera with songs like "lo, the postal inspector arrives with commanding gait." they should have a "this machine kills fascists" sticker on their clarinet

reverse omelas situation where society is more or less idyllic but there is one very public mean idiot who sucks shit that we have to be nice to.

extremely worried that i'm starting to think "oh i should go to a baseball game soon, it's been a while." it's a sign of a body in deep distress, like in my side of the mountain where he started craving liver because he had a vitamin a deficiency

my advice for new writers looking to hone their craft:
1) begin all of your creative writing with an invocation of the muses, with a particular acknowledgment of whichever muse you think is most relevant (9/10 it's going to be erato; honestly can't hurt to thank erato along with the others just in case)
2) don't make the solution to the murder mystery be the last chapter: make it the penultimate chapter, so people skipping to the end aren't spoiled
3) learn about space and character limits; don'

every single crossword i did today was ides of march themed, likely because both IDES and CAESAR are very good fill words. i think this means i need to change my name to something that's mostly vowels and do something prominent so i can achieve a form of immortality. ozymandias two vast and trunkless legs of stone style but it's like "13A: Notably famous historical idiot (7)"

every place that does research is also (they think uniquely):

• siloed
• having trouble making an impact

it is periodically suggested that somebody should Build The Website that will solve those problems and "let people know what we are up to"

this is usually done on top of the strata of the previous websites that all claimed to be doing the same thing but failed by immediately going stale and/or not being pitched to the right people

you would think that, given the circumstances, i would stop being genuinely surprised when i know about something related to math or statistics and can implement/describe it successfully. yet i have so deeply internalized that i am "not a math person" that it does, in fact, surprise me each time.

sympathies to the bsky folks but imo websites should go down more often. no five 9s of uptime, i want, like, one 9, tops. not only for immortan joe "do not become addicted to water, it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence" reasons, but also having a website that goes down a lot brings us closer to the ideal old internet: a series of random stuff run from individual machines under hobbyists' desks.

almost haughtily said "am i my brother's keeper?" in a work meeting today like a jrpg villain but managed to course correct in time

oh man where was this article when i needed it https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
h/t @jzong@hci.social

@ieeevis@vis.social
The BELIV workshop is returning this year! The theme this year is "Rethinking Design, Evaluation, and Ethics in Visualization in the Era of Generative AI," but we are always looking for work on research methods in visualization in general.

https://tinyurl.com/beliv2024

35D Animal identity in role play (7):
FURSONA

this is the nyt crossword debut of FURSONA.

do you think will shortz already knew what a fursona was, or did some person have to explain it to him while he was editing the puzzle

i think it's still a crime on par with at least a couple of murders that the ico save music, the music that plays to let you know that you are safe, and you can take a break and think things through, has been coopted as hold music by both cvs and fedex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMDBqQDtT8

i am at the #ieeevis (virtual) conference next week, where there is a lot of stuff i am supposed to be doing/advertising.

i will be periodically posting about this here (probably just in a thread to this post?)

to make up for this breach of server content etiquette, i will also shitpost about other stuff, most likely dracula.