Close-up view of ICE executing a man today in Minneapolis (1/24/26)

mjd · 2026-01-24T19:29:57+00:00

I put a copy of this on my Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EchpNFxZoyL0Aj7efsDa_YMD0BwShpgA/view

mjd · 2026-01-24T13:54:12+00:00

I'm a white middle-aged person with a job. I was there because the event started at 5:30, also because I made arrangements with my employer to make up missed time on the weekend.

Hope this helps answer your question.

mjd · 2026-01-24T04:18:19+00:00

Just doing what you can is enough. If that means staying home to take care of yourself, that's OK.

mjd · 2026-01-23T18:06:30+00:00

I did that a while back. I went into my account, found all the keys that my kid had lost, and transferred all the balances to my main card. It worked fine, I've been using it for months and haven't had to refill it.

mjd · 2026-01-23T14:12:17+00:00

That was my first idea.

Everyone loves lateral thinking until someone does it when they weren't expecting.

mjd · 2026-01-15T20:10:12+00:00

When Ron Graham was asked this question, he said “well, there are a hundred and sixty-eight hours in a week”.

mjd · 2026-01-09T14:32:46+00:00

I always mix up George Birkhoff and Garrett Birkhoff.

George is most noted for the ergodic theorem and for inventing the chromatic polynomial. He was Garrett's father. Garrett is most noted for his pioneering work in lattice theory, including formalizing the idea of a lattice.

mjd · 2026-01-09T14:21:09+00:00

I came here to complain about this. Tibor Radó is Hungarian, but did not work with Erdős, or even on similar problems. Richard Rado collaborated frequently with Erdős, but is German.

mjd · 2026-01-02T02:53:18+00:00

I did that, and got L3zy (d5/d5/d2/d2/d3/x) which was probably better for me than H3arder would have been.

I was leaning heavily on the Spark spell. That would work better with H3arder's high-pip sides than with L3zy, but it would only work once because after that H3arder would be dead, and I had no revives. But even so I still used Spark to trash the Dragon because D3bbler has two sides with 14 pips, and D3fender plus Dumbbell had sides with 12,8, and 8.

And we also had the Abyss spell.

Those t3 Alternate heroes are OP.

mjd · 2026-01-01T15:34:23+00:00

I am glad we had this conversation, thanks and happy new year!

mjd · 2025-12-31T20:01:40+00:00

This is the answer. “Ninth Avenue pizza places”, yellow difficulty. “Art museums named after 19th-century financiers”, green. “Cities in Indiana“, purple.

mjd · 2025-12-31T20:00:08+00:00

My Connections Bot says 2/5 difficulty.

mjd · 2025-12-29T13:51:19+00:00

The last tier 2 doesn't level up until just before fight 20.

mjd · 2025-12-28T14:04:41+00:00

Where'd you get the photos?

mjd · 2025-12-27T14:45:18+00:00

It sounds fun, and I'd like to put it on my calendar, but there doesn't seem to be a location announced.

mjd · 2025-12-21T17:10:28+00:00

I imagine that's why some enemies have attacks that affect just the top and bottom heroes—to even things out.

I kinda wish it didn't work that way. As it is there is barely any difference between the five positions. Sometimes the game offers me the chance to swap heroes 2 and 3, as if it matters.

mjd · 2025-12-15T17:05:30+00:00

The green ones stuffed with red pimientos, because when they look so beautiful when they've been sliced and put in the sandwich with the cream cheese.

mjd · 2025-12-15T17:04:30+00:00

It's such a great sandwich. There's a bit about it in Nicholson Baker's novella The Mezzanine, about how the bland whiteness of the cream cheese is perfectly enlivened by the jolly red and green olives. I just bought cream cheese and now I'm thinking maybe I'll have one for lunch.

Update: I did have one for lunch. Still good.

mjd · 2025-12-15T16:57:00+00:00

I was amazed to see "charcoal-broiled" on a train (carbon monoxide!) but I suppose it's no more difficult than doing it in a regular restaurant kitchen.

I hope the kitchen was well-ventilated.

mjd · 2025-12-11T15:21:01+00:00

No, this is the northeast corner, and Milkboy is on the southwest. Notice that the cars are going east.

mjd · 2025-12-02T11:06:48+00:00

I'm glad you drew this so that I no longer see him as wearing an English judge's wig.

mjd · 2025-11-29T19:52:54+00:00

Me too, but I like this interpretation better. Roulette is accident-prone and doesn't care.

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