The odds of Earths moon appearing exactly the same size as the sun are literally astronomical. Doesn’t exist anywhere cosmically nearby. Someone else made the point that if aliens did live near us, they would travel here as space tourists to see our rare, incredible eclipses.

Interesting that the moon gets all the credit for doing for one minute what clouds thanklessesly do every day. Shoutout clouds. The offensive linemen of the skys

Lost my Thesaurus. Gutted. Really gutted. Like absolutely gutted.

good night

Review: Zodiac Super Sea Wolf GMT open.substack.com/pub/tempusreru… a great new watch Substack from Alec Dent

It's not too late to do something to prevent the eclipse

[consoling a friend after a breakup]

HIM: I won’t find anyone as good as her

ME (just finished watching Moneyball): we’ll recreate her in the aggregate

If Shakespeare had had an editor

‘DUNE: MESSIAH’ is officially in development at Legendary.

(Source: Deadline)

California building 5 feet of high speed rail

I … did not realize this was day for night.

tarot didn't start being used for divination until a couple of centuries after the cards were invented for just playing games with, which suggests the delightful possibility of someone in 2240 insisting that they're channeling the Ancient Wisdom of the Monopoly Board.

It's cute when kids say what they want to be when they grow up. You're gonna write emails on the computer buddy

In the next Apes movie, they should find out there's another animal that got really smart somehow. Like they run into a dog riding a horse

The Cornell Watch Company, the historic American watch manufacturer, has been revived with a gorgeous limited edition made in partnership with RGM. Alec Dent has the story.

Check it out here:
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(on shark tank)

Me: I’d like a loan of 1 million dollars

Sharks: what’s your business

Me: my beautiful wife would like to do fancy expensive stuff it’s for her

The Finger Lakes reading this

The Devil Wears Flashes

ah well. it was though