Paul Bausch @pb@mastodon.cloud

Cause of world helium shortage found: “noble” gas tired of being known for dumb party trick.

Pulsar 2849: king of point salad games? Complicated and fun!

me: updating my router is going to take a few minutes, what should I do? brain: browse the Internet! *click* me: hmm, I wonder what's wrong with the Internet.

I often imagine myself
Stepping sideways through a closed door
As if contorting my body
Just the right way
Would be enough to break the laws of physics

LinkedIn can't even handle my skillz rn.

No one has the guts to remove FB like buttons.

Mastodon made it onto the martech landscape! See if you can spot it.

https://cdn.chiefmartec.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/marketing-technology-landscape-2019-slide.jpg

ah, these are all Tumblr blogs surfacing ancient posts. Someone must have tripped over the cord to the machine that keeps track of GUIDs.

Someone should make a site that randomly brings up old web.

Some glitch in my feed reader caused old posts to be marked as unread and I’m having a great time reading stuff on people’s blogs from the last ten years.

Frustrated. There are always seemingly excellent reasons in the moment not to do the right thing but we need to do it anyway.

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Ongoing matters
All they are is ongoing matters

aw man, I should have majored in jam bands. http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/phish2019/

Today I was at a campus-wide brand symposium where professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Susan Shaw described ways university marketers can influence social justice. I found it inspiring. And I know TED talks are played out but her talk today included this one from 2009 about the power of stories: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/

irony watch. Sad but I’m starting to dread clicking when I see medium in the URL.

My guess: Rey founds “skywalker”, a lifestyle brand that sells Force—a personal productivity system with escalating levels of commitment and investment. In space.

ugh, I just realized that dunking on dunking culture is still participating in dunking culture. It doesn’t matter how clever the dunking is.

Having a debate about Doctor Who time travel problems with my kids over breakfast. Happy with some of my parenting choices.

Had fun playing Roll Player last night. It’s like a lighter Sagrada with six other mechanics thrown in to keep you occupied.

I run a network-level ad blocker and everything works fine EXCEPT the PBS app on Amazon Fire, Roku, etc. That thing loads a cluster of trackers every time you click play and I'd never know it if things didn't just break spectacularly because I'm a network weirdo. PBS!

Woke up singing “terpenes and tardigrades” to the tune of incense and peppermints. I hope that’s useful to someone. 🌼✨