Thinking Thoughts

Not enough people are understanding the funniest part of this. Everyone's making colour theory jokes but the dad is colour blind. The most common colour blindness is red green colour blindness. It's the one where red and green look relatively the same shade of brown.

Someone asked me a while ago if I still had a photo of the worst sink I had ever seen while apartment hunting in Los Angeles. I assumed I deleted it so I didn't answer the ask and now it's gone, but as it turns out, yes, I do still have a photo of it.

Isaac Newton invented the cat flap, and Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair. And Tom Lehrer invented the jell-o shot.

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Y'know, I absolutely can't fucking stand AI chatbot customer service bots, but I've gotta say, they make me appreciate the human representatives even more than I already did. It's weird how actually having to pester the bot into giving you a person mentally emphasizes that, yes, there is a human on the other end of this chatbox, you are making a connection with a real person who is doing a real person job. It hasn't really changed how I interact with them, because that's something I've always tried to keep in mind, but it does make it more prominent in my head.

"can our ai assistant help you?" "give our ai mode a try !" "our ai assistant is your new best friend !"