Things and Stuff

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Thinking about how my grandfather used to sit behind me while I video-chatted with my girlfriend and he didn't understand "video calls" and told me that watching the same show all day would rot my brain. he said he could see this happening because of how happy and bouncy I got while I watching it

He complained to my father that I was becoming a lunatic because I would at times speak to the character on the screen

I think the most invested (negative) he got was when the character assembled furniture for two hours straight

The best part is that when he reported my deteriorating mental state to my father, my father wasn't aware I had a gf and thought he was referring to me animating. I was working on my thesis at the time so the logic cohered. so my father tried to explain the concept of animation (which my father also didn't fully understand) and why frames have to be drawn over and over. this one frame of a lady's face staring into the camera as she builds a home bar lowkey gaslighting my grandfather who then decided animation was making me insane

in your deranged grandfather's defense, i also absolutely hated the furniture assembly episode