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Jeff Snider

@picojeff

Oh, you know, stuff.

Hotel room phone rings, "Hello, sir? We have a sword at the front desk under your name."


I got to wave 298 with 811141504 points, come play with me! zombs.io #zombsio


I got to wave 51 with 3679340 points, come play with me! zombs.io #zombsio


Jeff Snider reposted

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."

From JM Rieger

My visualizations of Sars-CoV-2 data collected in one web front #covid #covid19usa #SARSCoV2 snider.com/Sars-CoV-2/ind…


Gluing Italy's per-capita death curve to the US's per-capita curve, and fitting a parabola to the data on a log-linear chart. There's no reason to expect deaths to peak before mid-April, when over 3,000 people will be dying every day in the US

picojeff's tweet image. Gluing Italy's per-capita death curve to the US's per-capita curve, and fitting a parabola to the data on a log-linear chart.  There's no reason to expect deaths to peak before mid-April, when over 3,000 people will be dying every day in the US

Sometime in the next fifteen days a famous American is going to die from COVID-19. If we don't have a national lockdown in the next week, then by mid-April people you know personally will have died.


Data from ECDC except for US, which is from WHO through March 16 supplemented with reports from news outlets

picojeff's tweet image. Data from ECDC except for US, which is from WHO through March 16 supplemented with reports from news outlets

Used to be if I saw this I would give up hope and power-cycle the machine. On a modern machine, and I find it hard to believe, this is "no problem!" 17:25:31 up 34 min, 8 users, load average: 382.24, 292.53, 209.22


When you hear "wet your finger" to check which way the wind is blowing, or turn a page, what do you picture? (How many things have you touched since the last time you washed your hands?) So... Why can't I just control my sweat glands on my finger and have it get wet by itself?


Catriona's geometric puzzle of the day. Give it a try!

All four triangles are equilateral. What fraction of the rectangle do they cover?

Cshearer41's tweet image. All four triangles are equilateral. What fraction of the rectangle do they cover?


Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, we know we know. But what if you start an online fishing-instruction business? You can teach millions to fish.


Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules


I love a good ol song that reminds us of when even cis-het people, even in private with their intimates, had to use coded speech to convey their simple desires.


A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1 May 1672-1719)


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