It looks so dated now, but I loved Prisoner of Ice.

*While carrying 64 1m x 1m x 1m cubic blocks of stone in your hand.

There’s a theory that we were able to evolve our big problem-solving brains because we got access to higher-quality protein after teaming up with dogs as hunting partners. So did we breed them to be pets or did they breed us to be caretakers?

Schrödinger was responsible for so much good work in science, but all we remember him for is his cruelty to animals. :(

Just a few minutes ago. It was a thread about someone losing a beloved pet rat to old age. I want to say something comforting, but can’t think of anything that doesn’t seem trite or cliched.

Not to be confused with philatelist, a stamp collector. The word means to enjoy receiving something without the necessity of payment.

Staple gun

Band-aids

I charge a husband tax too. 10% of her snacks are mine.

Pretty much every day I get an update or two about how the James Webb telescope has kicked the legs out from under another one of cosmology’s sacred cows.

Great to know how wrong we’ve been, but now I’m waiting for updates saying we’ve figured out why.

So who held a gun to your head and forced you to open this thread?

Since you asked…

::: :::

The issue with pretending to be stupid on the internet to make a point is that there are so many people doing the same thing with no point in mind.

I’ve read a comment by someone who put a staircase in their memory palace with a step for each entry on the periodic table of elements. Anecdotal, I know.

Drive-thru surgery.

Having races where the dogs pull you up and down the hallway on pizza boxes.

Linux. Seems like Windows comes with a lot of baggage these days.

Electrical conductivity. It’s gotta be high, but not too high.

The process of choosing government officials at random is called sortition. It’s certainly not the worst method.

Did you enjoy the joke?

Aw, I wanted Jack Black.

Guess I’ll have to go with my second choice, Danny DeVito.