themanfromnantucket

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themanfromnantucket

11 years ago

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats 2.0 - The Sequel

Funny, Funny …

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scientist humor science engineering cat cats cat yodeling

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themanfromnantucket

11 years ago

Illustrations by Francis Livingston

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illustration Francis Livingston weird floating things

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themanfromnantucket

11 years ago

I have thought long and hard about the things I would do in order to obtain a superpower that would let me see further into the EM spectrum.

the fact that there are animals who can see colors that i cant which means that there are colors that exist that it is literally impossible for me to envision is such fucking bullshit that i wanna rip open a couch and eat it

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i want to see what the bees see science superpowers

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themanfromnantucket

11 years ago

http://iquitelikeditactually.tumblr.com/post/69993518307/isozyme-as-much-as-i-love-linguistic-analysis

As much as I love linguistic analysis of tumblr and internet language patterns, it gives me the twitch when people call it a new dialect.

I’ve always understood it as more of a register. Wikipedia defines register as “a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a...

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this actually makes a lot more sense linguistics register language maybe somewhere between a register and a dialect (because I do know people who speak kinda like that all the time)

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themanfromnantucket

11 years ago

[x]

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he's slowly gotten a lot more serious in recent years I'm not sure it's a bad thing either still funny though bo burnham

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