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Alphabet Notes

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25 June 2023 at 19:00

Listen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!

Garden Path Sentence

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22 June 2023 at 19:00

Arboretum Owner Denied Standing in Garden Path Suit on Grounds Grounds Appealing Appealing

Summer Solstice

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20 June 2023 at 19:00

Then I'll start work on my lunar engines to line the Moon up with the ecliptic so we can have a solar eclipse every month (with a little wobble so they're not always on the equator.)

Bookshelf Sorting

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18 June 2023 at 19:00

Of course, I sort all my bookshelves the normal way, alphabetically (by first sentence).

Heat Pump

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15 June 2023 at 19:00

If I'm not going to upgrade to a powered one, I should at LEAST stop leaving the door open so often.

Making Plans

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13 June 2023 at 19:00

Oh no, I haven't checked in with Yvonne in YEARS.

Musical Scales

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11 June 2023 at 19:00

In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.

Iceberg

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8 June 2023 at 19:00

90% of the iceberg is hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%.

UFO Evidence

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6 June 2023 at 19:00

[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019)."

Marble Run

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4 June 2023 at 19:00

I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.

Drainage Basins

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1 June 2023 at 19:00

After a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.

Ruling Out

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30 May 2023 at 19:00

We were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence.

Wikipedia Article Titles

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28 May 2023 at 19:00

I would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag.

The Six Platonic Solids

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25 May 2023 at 19:00

Plato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.

Physical Quantities

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23 May 2023 at 19:00

The Hubble length is about 1.9 meters lying down; Edwin Hubble was a tall guy.

Exoplanet High-5

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21 May 2023 at 19:00

Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog.

Cuisine

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18 May 2023 at 19:00

My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.

Noise Filter

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16 May 2023 at 19:00

Party Mode also enables the feature, but reverses the slider.

Crystal Ball

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14 May 2023 at 19:00

They often use ball lenses to collect light at the ends of optical fibers, so when you look stuff up on the internet you're actually scrying through a crystal ball.

Siphon

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11 May 2023 at 19:00

ADDITIONAL NOTES: Fixed a bug that caused some rocks to generate virtually infinite heat while just sitting there.