Like one week a year our Publix has "Sweet Celebration" grapes in stock and they're like the next evolution of grape existence. They are nearly an inch in diameter, consistently firm, sweet, seedless, and they last forever in the fridge. According the website they're not "GMOs", which frankly is a disgrace to science.…

Butt Soup?

Yeah, a while back. I scored somewhere in the 130s the first time I took it. Now I've figured out all but one of the questions so I can speedrun it and get a 143, but that's not an accurate reflection of how I did extemporaneously.

ARE YOU THE REREREMEMBERERER?

It's off the charts!

When it comes to ones you can actually use in conversation I favor 'gastrointestinal distress'. It's vague and clinical enough to not be gross but it makes your point.

As long as we're doing arbitrary psychometrics, here's one of the least-bad online tests of the parcel of abstract pattern-recognition aptitudes we call "IQ".

I feel like I tackled it similarly to you and had similar difficulties. I was noting the shapes of their heads and it hurt my ability to distinguish them when that context was removed. I also tried to notice intellectual features about them, and started summing them up with nicknames in the second round (The Chin,…

I got 78%. I mostly just started typing random numbers when it got to the fuzzed out round.

Yeah, I like to give wiggle room on questions like that. Points for each correct placement, say, or "name four of the top five", or possibly "of these eight, select the top five and place them in order" - just something so that it's not all or nothing without any guidelines. Because when there's infinite plausible…

I spent most of yesterday making it so I could compile and run C++ on Windows, and then did my first homework assignment early, which was to create a text-based simulation of "Numberwang". This led me to watch a bunch of Mitchell and Webb clips on youtube.

The Prime Minister of Japan just transformed into Mario and went through a warp pipe from Tokyo to Rio. Seems like a handy ability for a head of state to have.

That's physics!

I need to decide on a senior research topic stat. Have any of you been haunted by nagging open questions in mathematics? Preferably ones that don't naturally lead to the use of partial differential equations?

I object to the implication that Lucky Charms is not for adults.

Taking into account the infirm, children, and the elderly, I probably rank somewhere between 3 and 4 billionth.

Presidential has brought to my attention that as Alec Baldwin gets older and more bloated, he looks increasingly like Millard Fillmore. Why isn't a biopic in the works?

Moles. Some of them. All of them?

GAH

It's quiet…..