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University Age

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4 August 2024 at 19:00

This only makes it more urgent that we adopt my roadmap for the next 10 years, which should put us solidly in the lead.

Matter

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1 August 2024 at 19:00

He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.

Exam Numbers

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30 July 2024 at 19:00

Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

Chili Tornado Quake

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28 July 2024 at 19:00

Buildings constructed from softer materials were damaged by chili pepper impacts to the storm's high Richter-Fujita-Scoville-Mohs hardness rating.

Olympic Sports

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25 July 2024 at 19:00

Thankfully for everyone involved, the Winter Olympics officials spotted me and managed to stop me before I got to the ski jump.

House Inputs and Outputs

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23 July 2024 at 19:00

People think power over ethernet is so great, and yet when I try to do water over ethernet everyone yells at me.

President Venn Diagram

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21 July 2024 at 19:00

Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

CrowdStrike

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18 July 2024 at 19:00

We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.

Organ Meanings

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16 July 2024 at 19:00

IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more.

Beam of Light

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14 July 2024 at 19:00

Einstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there."

Hatchery

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11 July 2024 at 19:00

Anadromous fish are more vulnerable in rivers, since the lack of salt means you can quickly crack passwords using rainbow trout tables.

A Crossword Puzzle

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9 July 2024 at 19:00

Hint: If you ever encounter this puzzle in a crossword app, just [term for someone with a competitive and high-achieving personality].

Number Line Branch

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7 July 2024 at 19:00

Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

Pole Vault

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4 July 2024 at 19:00

Ugh, and we JUST went through this yesterday with javelin.

Bracket Symbols

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2 July 2024 at 19:00

’"‘”’" means "I edited this text on both my phone and my laptop before sending it"

Alien Theories

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30 June 2024 at 19:00

They originally came here to try to investigate our chemtrail technology, and got increasingly frustrated when all their samples turned out to just be water ice with trace amounts of jet exhaust.

Routine Maintenance

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27 June 2024 at 19:00

The worst was the time they accidentally held the can upside down and froze all the Earth's magma chambers solid.

Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas

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25 June 2024 at 19:00

Although Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.

Situation

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23 June 2024 at 19:00

We're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.

Network Configuration

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20 June 2024 at 19:00

If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.