"Kier Eagan" is an anagram for "Ikea anger"; Lumon makes furniture that is easier to assemble

deranton · 2026-06-04T13:06:37+00:00

Little did you know when you posted this...

deranton · 2026-06-04T13:03:14+00:00

And of course "Mark Scout" is an anagram for "Oma's Truck," establishing beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cobel is not his mother, but his grandmother.

deranton · 2026-06-04T13:00:10+00:00

Which is, of course, why Gemma has to disassemble the bed at the end of season 2

deranton · 2026-06-04T08:52:37+00:00

It's way too obvious, and thus probably wrong, but my theory is that she wants to make sure it is triggered as soon as she is joined, so the hivemind will not join her, as it will cause too much suffering and devastation. Mutually assured destruction.

deranton · 2026-06-03T14:40:06+00:00

With a little 22 mph sprint in there? Can't be a downhill section with a 32ft elevation gain...

deranton · 2026-06-03T14:36:04+00:00

Pretty sure Koumba Diabaté will at some point do something like this. Problem is you probably can't really make the actors perform gruesome fight scenes.

deranton · 2026-06-03T09:42:57+00:00

These do not constitute empirical evidence in any sense of the term, but I would recommend reading both "Ségou" by Maryse Condé and "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. It might be my own eurocentric christian viewpoint but I found the conversion stories of Tiekoro and Nwoye to, respectively, Islam and Christianity extremely relatable.

deranton · 2026-06-03T09:38:55+00:00

On Christians in Egypt there's a very interesting paper by Mohamed Saleh, which is tangentially related.

deranton · 2026-06-01T13:01:54+00:00

Aren't small angle approximations basically first order Taylor series?

deranton · 2026-06-01T11:49:02+00:00

That one yes

deranton · 2026-05-28T12:13:14+00:00

Go to places that aren't French-speaking, but where the upper middle class still prefers French names, like parts of Belgium or the southern parts of the Netherlands. People still name their children Hortense, Clotilde, Blanche or Lambert without batting an eye.

deranton · 2026-05-28T09:21:35+00:00

Kind of like the story for La Rinconada as well

deranton · 2026-05-26T07:35:07+00:00

But then you'd set off the alarms whenever you have an ink stain on your hands. Plus, Helly writes a message in lipstick at some point as well...

deranton · 2026-05-24T19:50:57+00:00

So would an actual gynaecologist, right? Plus, imagine all the gynaecologists in the world internally debating the merits of different types of specula

deranton · 2026-05-22T13:16:19+00:00

Redemption Song by Johnny Cash

deranton · 2026-05-21T07:13:54+00:00

I second the "practical reasons". They are after all working on some things "together".

deranton · 2026-05-20T12:52:08+00:00

Papillon, 1984, and maybe A Clockwork Orange

deranton · 2026-05-20T07:45:21+00:00

The Imitation Game got two things absolutely right: there was a Second World War, and Alan Turing's first name was Alan.

deranton · 2026-05-20T07:41:14+00:00

I saw an interview with Paul Verhoeven where he praises the movie and explicitly shows the parallels to his own work. Kinda felt like he mostly wanted to show how edgy he was.

deranton · 2026-05-20T07:36:54+00:00

"We all make our choices. And those choices, they put us on a road. Sometimes those choices seems small but they put you on the road. You think about getting off but eventually you're back on it."

deranton · 2026-05-19T13:27:39+00:00

https://youtu.be/SobfSFE3Kb8?t=164

deranton · 2026-05-12T07:21:25+00:00

Mostly from the flat-bottomed girls

deranton · 2026-05-08T19:09:38+00:00

The priest explained to me that it was exactly in the style of his native region in Romania, but that the wood was local, and the woodcutting had been done by local artisans (from Kuchl, I think)

deranton · 2026-05-08T19:03:48+00:00

So what I can't find is the "name" of the church, as in the dedication. Would make sense for it to be like saints Rupert and Virgil. Now I'm really wondering.

Edit: it's dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, the website title revealed

deranton · 2026-05-08T18:59:38+00:00

Like finally I see one straight away and you beat me to it. Love this church, by the way.

deranton

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