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*puffs on a cigarette* "Thomas? I haven't heard that name in years" pic.twitter.com/jBe9KrxyDf — Jeffrey Simpson (@DoctorJeph) January 16, 2016

You have to squint a bit, but it’s there.

Beautiful set by NYC-based photographer Lucea Spinelli Found at Dreamy Animated Light Paintings by Lucea Spinelli on Colossal

This looks familiar… The Idea Behind The Classic Workbench

Seriously, do I have to watch the State of the Union now? I mean, any of these things could happen: President shouts out Michigan’s football coach Harbaugh is invited to give speech Harbaugh is not invited to give speech, gives speech anyway Harbaugh wears cleats Harbaugh nails Joe Biden on a post route Harbaugh signs…

This requires Spotify, but … worth it. First hit play on this thing: Then hit play on this and let both go

Cause I know this will save someone out there some time.

Part of a Christmas present.

Nice writeup on Principles of UI Animation over on Adaptive Path.

We have ridiculous swag.

Does organic food cause autism? Could Nicolas Cage movies make you more likely to drown? Six ways to misuse statistics – http://wp.me/p1yLel-CN

An amazing set of photos. I see a couple faces in there…

That time of the year again.

This is incredible. Thanks @phiggins.

Lovely Fishing Video http://blowery.org/2015/10/08/lovely-fishing-video/embed/  

Clifford came out last night. My favorite thing? Embeds. Now you can embed your posts on other WordPress sites. Simply drop a post URL into the editor and see an instant embed preview, complete with the title, excerpt, and featured image if you’ve set one. We’ll even include your site icon and links for comments…

What could this be? Random packages from Google? Amazing.

these embeds. do they work?   https://fudgethatsugar.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/100-honesty/    

[time]10/29/2015 2:10pm CDT[/time] time for time

wonder if audio autoplay still slips through…

The course cut down a bunch of trees the last month or so and I found a couple nice cherry logs lying around. This hunk is a server, the rest is heading into the smoker.

First Boston butt on the new kamado grill. Whole bunch of hours at 275° F with the following rub. Should be done in another few hours.

Today’s the day. Go Blue!

Bubblers gonna bubble.

Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!

Had to get some tots. Speaking of tots…

But no one died in that crossing, historians said, or in any other notable Civil War engagement on the spot. “How would they know that?” Mr. Trump asked when told that local historians had called his plaque a fiction. “Were they there?” — Donald Trump on being told that the event referenced by a plaque…

The power has been out most of today, so we’ve been sitting by the fire reading stories to Lu. Not a bad forced break. Not bad at all.

Today we released the code that runs the interface on WordPress.com. Cheers to everyone who worked on it and made it possible to show our work to the world!

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-space-doctors-big-idea-einstein-general-relativity This is amazing.

Recently, I went coworking at a local shop with five other Automatticians, so we changed up our morning routine. When I told her I was going to go work with my coworkers and would be dropping her off and picking her up from school, she was dumbfounded. “You’re going to go somewhere to work with your…

http://rd.io/x/QFpHPgjzOA/

Lu made us a drawing.

Congrats to a few different teams at Automattic for launching the brand new editor today. So shiny and fast. Love it! (this post was written using new editor, of course)

    Fascinating film of English swill basketmaker Owen Jones making charcoal. Source: The Charcoal Burner’s Story

how about a song

maybe some mini-metro would be nice.

another minute gone

the end is … far away.

so many.