I will be giving this talk in mere minutes. I was convinced by well-meaning friends to cut out the five slides I had about Jacques Lacan and the 12 slides about Gettier problems in epistemology #ieeevis

data is my passion

relaxing post conference trip to the museum of osteology

it’s a testament to charlotte the spider’s inherent goodness that she can say “salutations” and we think it’s endearing instead of being the start of an e-mail where they try to convince me that the IRS needs iTunes gift cards

According to The Inner Bird by Gary W. Kaiser, the true bird is ”a strange goblin-like creature”, ”a puppeteer behind a screen of feathers.” Can’t really disagree here.

in scooby doo, the desire to get those teens away from the pirate gold or whatever is, in a libidinal sense, more "real" than the villain's identity as an inn keeper etc. so, the mask, to me, is precisely what fred paradoxically "reveals" when he removes the visage of the monster

BREAKING NEWS. TOUCANS CAN LOAF. HE IS OFFICIALLY: BANANA BREAD

“I can’t believe twitter is free” it isn’t, there is an inconceivable toll

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…

if and when this website dies i will just retreat down a strata or two to earlier websites. see you all on the something awful forums to discuss the plot progress of keenspot webcomics and uk twee/anorak. failing that, my aim screenname is also available on request

had a dream that i submitted something so bad that they gave me a video of looping stock footage of sharks with the words “CAN’T WRITE” prominently displayed that i was (legally?) obligated to prepend to all future writing mockup attached

Making a second brief return to twitter to report that Taco Bell Quarterly sent me a (very nice!) rejection letter for a poem I wrote about tacos, which I am using as permission to just throw the thing on Medium along with several paragraphs of commentary medium.com/@Birdbassador/…

We are permanently logged out of cyber heaven. ☯90DEC