OT but OMG I love the OSU band so much!! I’ve given visiting lectures there a few times but haven’t yet managed to time a visit that coincides with one of their field shows...um, I mean, football games (whatever, the field show is totally the point for a band geek like me)

*awesome* dress!!!

I won’t subject you all to my running-damaged and badly-painted toenails; they’re an extra-sad mess right nowbecause I had to slap some polish on them for a wedding and bought the first decent shade of gray polish that I found at RiteAid.

Unfortunately there’s a SUBSTANTIAL difference between “highly educated people” and “highly *scientifically* educated people”. The big swath of English/philosophy/history/liberal arts majors from [insert fancy school here] who took, like, Astronomy 101 or similar freshman year to satisfy their science requirement…

I’ve thought for a while that she might pick John Hickenlooper and am surprised his name hasn’t come up more- he’s fairly popular in swingy-but-blue-leaning Colorado, liberal in ways that counterbalance Clinton, and has a present but pretty low-key national profile. He’s also firmly in the “benign white guy” category.

her ecosystem looks just fine to me...

The island of Manhattan is now partially supported by Starbucks degeneracy pressure.

I was gonna say, it looks like someone took the contents of the Avatar cutting-room floor and combined it with Muppet trimmings to make some freakish thin-lipped golem...

mrw that header image popped up in my Twitter feed:

This is literally one of my worst nightmares...

I’m in a travel-heavy profession and there’s a really interesting community discussion going on right now about work travel (conferences, on-site work, etc.) to Zika-affected areas. Should conferences in these areas be relocated out of fairness to pregnant/trying-to-conceive attendees? Does bowing out of risky work…

the fact that “BirdieSanders” is trending at #1 on Twitter right now is honestly restoring my faith in humanity a little bit...

Mmm, I think sparrow. From the above photo the chest markings look a lot more like a female sparrow. it does look a bit yellow in the video but I’m guessing that’s just a video resolution/color balance thing.

i have questions

I would *most definitely* watch a movie covering Haymitch’s Hunger Games. I sorely missed that whole subplot in the Catching Fire movie...