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• Post #1795693

  Once again another "I'm in the wrong field" paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222500507X

• Post #1762598

  i am at the #ieeevis (virtual) conference next week, where there is a lot of stuff i am supposed to be doing/advertising. i will be periodically posting about this here (probably just in a thread to this post?) to make up for this breach of server content etiquette, i will also shitpost about other stuff, most likely dracula.

• Post #1704658

  in speed (1994), sandra bullock and keanu reeves deal with a peril via movement through space (romance ensues). in the lake house (2006), sandra bullock and keanu reeves deal with a peril via movement through time (romance ensues). we are therefore overdue for a movie where bullock and reeves must conceptualize and then navigate five-dimensional velocities to solve problems (romance ensues).

• Post #1704657

  reverse omelas situation where society is more or less idyllic but there is one very public mean idiot who sucks shit that we have to be nice to.

• Post #1704656

  the only unifying bit i can find about research is that everybody seems to think that there's some other (wicked) place that "only cares about papers" but it's of course never the place where they are, where they are is of course different.

• Post #1704654

  you already know what time it is

• Post #1534633

  you would think that, given the circumstances, i would stop being genuinely surprised when i know about something related to math or statistics and can implement/describe it successfully. yet i have so deeply internalized that i am "not a math person" that it does, in fact, surprise me each time.

• Post #1534632

  extremely worried that i'm starting to think "oh i should go to a baseball game soon, it's been a while." it's a sign of a body in deep distress, like in my side of the mountain where he started craving liver because he had a vitamin a deficiency

• Post #1371410

  jock

• Post #1371407

  looking through the infinite jest footnote visualization and feeling myself becoming Deranged https://samizdat.co/digest/notes/

• Post #1371405

  i think it's still a crime on par with at least a couple of murders that the ico save music, the music that plays to let you know that you are safe, and you can take a break and think things through, has been coopted as hold music by both cvs and fedex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMDBqQDtT8

• Post #1371404

  my advice for new writers looking to hone their craft: 1) begin all of your creative writing with an invocation of the muses, with a particular acknowledgment of whichever muse you think is most relevant (9/10 it's going to be erato; honestly can't hurt to thank erato along with the others just in case) 2) don't make the solution to the murder mystery be the last chapter: make it the penultimate chapter, so people skipping to the end aren't spoiled 3) learn about...

• Post #1371403

  we need to put the "nerd" back in "music nerd." a music nerd should not be cool. a music nerd should be into a second or third tier gilbert and sullivan light opera with songs like "lo, the postal inspector arrives with commanding gait." they should have a "this machine kills fascists" sticker on their clarinet

• Post #1371402

  sympathies to the bsky folks but imo websites should go down more often. no five 9s of uptime, i want, like, one 9, tops. not only for immortan joe "do not become addicted to water, it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence" reasons, but also having a website that goes down a lot brings us closer to the ideal old internet: a series of random stuff run from individual machines under hobbyists' desks.

• Post #1175538

  experiencing what i can only term "baroque overload" after returning from vienna, where all i want to do is just stare at some brutalist concrete apartment buildings for a bit. maybe hang out in a strip mall with a dsw and a panera bread

• Post #678627

  @ieeevis The BELIV workshop is returning this year! The theme this year is "Rethinking Design, Evaluation, and Ethics in Visualization in the Era of Generative AI," but we are always looking for work on research methods in visualization in general. https://tinyurl.com/beliv2024

• Post #672324

  almost haughtily said "am i my brother's keeper?" in a work meeting today like a jrpg villain but managed to course correct in time

• Post #672323

  i think nearly all books, and most academic papers, could be improved by including regency-style descriptive chapter headings that are like "chapter 4: in which a promise is breached" or "chapter 7: a fracas! mr. weathersby learns a lesson; de gustibus non est disputandum"

• Post #672322

  Computer: tea, earl grey, hot, hd artstation trending photorealistic high quality detailed

• Post #672320

  35D Animal identity in role play (7): FURSONA this is the nyt crossword debut of FURSONA. do you think will shortz already knew what a fursona was, or did some person have to explain it to him while he was editing the puzzle

• Post #672319

  every single crossword i did today was ides of march themed, likely because both IDES and CAESAR are very good fill words. i think this means i need to change my name to something that's mostly vowels and do something prominent so i can achieve a form of immortality. ozymandias two vast and trunkless legs of stone style but it's like "13A: Notably famous historical idiot (7)"

• Post #672317

  @plut0nian also apologies for the blurry picture but i was at an art of moby dick exhibit today and the "moby dick but all the bits that aren't gay redacted" was very funny to me

• Post #671049

  oh man where was this article when i needed it https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review h/t @jzong