Teaching my compressible flow course online is giving me the opportunity to answer some long-standing questions, such as:…

During a 2007 trip to NYC, while taking long walks from one indie bookstore to the next, lugging increasingly heavy bags of p…

So I busted out my IBM PC keyboard model M. I wrote ZZT and Unreal Engine 1 on this thing. With apologies to Moore's La…

@naslacker I also had to drop off a prepaid USPS package, you can read my recent tweets to infer why that might be ;)

I am normally the most anti-twibbon person imaginable, but I think masks are so important for the forseeable future that I'm masking up my avatar. I encourage you to as well, and share this link: https://t.co/6wlLeZvEiF

The governor of New Jersey just put out the call on live TV that he is desperate for Cobol programmers right now.

A visual representation of liking your own tweets https://t.co/LcqbaVGopy

Anthony Fauci is a superhero https://t.co/jrsoE7x269

Voice and real time chat are spices. They are important, absolutely, but your primary meal is the sentence and paragraph ¶. Don't drown your food! https://t.co/525FtU6Iv5

. @betsyphd just showed me an instructional VHS tape box she found (in the hair cutting equipment we are now digging out) and I literally had no idea what she was trying to show me. My brain could not process it. 🧠 https://t.co/vFTh0peIxL

I'm 10y remote now and 99% of all interactions with my heavy remote / async teams are NOT done with calls / video. It almost…

Gonna leave this here. Perfect meme for this time. https://t.co/6r7NgCRdUz

I know Dogs can’t wait for people to go back to work https://t.co/ggLX6H6e75

Literally just heard from outside in my neighborhood Girl 1: No for real though, girl, you need a mask Girl 2: I know I…

Piano Man: Into the Piano-Verse

Stuck this to the window and now the world makes more sense. https://t.co/3F66ilzr7x

I agree with every word of this. We should all be wearing masks In public, at least for the next 4-6 months. https://t.co/6wlLeZvEiF

"I think without The Dr. Demento Show, the probability is high that Alfred Yankovic would be a professional architect today," Demento says. https://t.co/hwnEyLjJ3M

This week we were researching COVID-19. It's a horrible tragedy. But millions of people are rising to the occasion, and t…

whales don't get cancer 🤯 https://t.co/amBV71s6jh

Does anyone know of a good monitor/teleprompter setup where you can look at the person you're on a call with and it looks lik…

Dr. Fauci 2020. I ain't even joking. https://t.co/4peJFCdLH7

“We can save months, and every month counts.” @BillGates and Trevor discuss combating coronavirus tonight at 11/10c https…

Dr. Fauci is my damn hero. https://t.co/TDYhzHUSNJ

me about to go grocery shopping https://t.co/I2qLcexJjQ

finally 2TB M.2 SSDs dropped in price enough I can consolidate from the last remaining spinny rust media drives in the house.. ⌚ it's a hard knock life y'all https://t.co/fTTOEYMkwO

lol. <fake deep voice> I'm batman https://t.co/th7LG6nqXi https://t.co/P4Ke58p3NK

The best videos of all time, via @jwz 📺 https://t.co/TDghwRORQU

Just checked my 401(k) for the first time since this all started https://t.co/D3pkshRLd0

remember when you used to be bored... ever? 😬

these are really fun. https://t.co/5i80TvTikY and https://t.co/ay4yzKOti3

"Because of the greater power of bad—that 4-to-1 ratio we mentioned—you can have a bigger impact by eliminating the negative" https://t.co/KYa2xgO01H

😣 persevering + 😷 med-mask = https://t.co/x9tgPN8vWw

zWarDial, Zoom war dialer exposes Zoom's password problems: if you weren't using a password for private Zoom calls, you should no…

Toilet paper shortages can be explained by people using 40% more of it at home: completely obvious in hindsight, but this is the…

Anyone else notice a resemblance between these two maps? https://t.co/FQF64NB88V https://t.co/oCeORorsk8

casual sex implies the existence of ranked competitive sex

I am a little late for this, but I have a 2018 12.9" iPad Pro 128gb in like new condition that I want to raffle off. Reply with a screenshot of a $40+ donation to the Great Slate to enter, and I will cap entries at 30 so everyone has a pretty good random chance of winning. https://t.co/b4gplrSqVk

Sandra the orangutang started washing her hands because she saw all the zookeepers doing it repeatedly during the COVID-19…

For the Redwood community, we’re looking to reduce location bias (a problem with Slack et al.) and increase openness, privacy,…

It's Census Day and we all have a crucial role to play. Filling out the 2020 Census determines what the next decade will l…

In The Air Tonight drum solo: Quarantine edition https://t.co/iwfHikau0d

We mourn the tragic loss of Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger by looking at 20 of his greatest songs https://t.co/Qms…

I ❤️ these tips and I ❤️ @BeccaFarsace! https://t.co/8QpeQqy52t

SCIENCE FTW. https://t.co/n6mb1Y0Mzn

Help remind your family to stay the fuck home with one of these stylish t-shirts. Proceeds go to local food and beverage worker…

just so everyone knows, April Fools has been cancelled this year

Free facemask with every enlistment. COBRA! https://t.co/VeK7fDvHub

So if you're lost and on your own https://t.co/mogaRjKz14

just so everyone knows, April Fools has been cancelled this year

Achievement unlocked. https://t.co/nGIIdgjWAQ

Ok, but HOW did I build dark mode on Stack Overflow? Here’s wayyyyy too much detail. 🦇https://t.co/j27306BNoe

As the city empties, our indigenous wildlife is coming down from the mountains around London. Nature will find a way. https:/…

read the room isabelle https://t.co/qH6sea61nD

Not muting your mic is the new reply all

With this contrast between how humans innately perceive problem solving vs. problem prevention, is it any surprise that this p…

#TuesdayMotivation #TuesdayMorning #TuesdayThoughts #doom https://t.co/86H4zqQx7S

Zoom is such a dodgy/misleading company across the board and using it should be reconsidered 🙅‍♀️ https://t.co/6J3m2n0Pxp

We've seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can't afford any more conseque…

The Conquer Covid-19 Humble Bundle is over $1,000 worth of incredible games and ebooks for $30, and 100% goes to support or…

Buckle up, butterdicks. It's time to talk about Doritos. https://t.co/7DcZHmtjqK

The West Coast is offering hopeful signs that early social distancing efforts worked https://t.co/4AiCqGJQUm via @technology

Sometimes I think, “this is really hard”. Then I realized we are fighting the next world war, in real time. It’s *supposed* to be hard! We have to fight, so we can win, for all of humanity. 🤲

"We know how to bring the economy back to life. What we do not know is how to bring people back to life." — Nana Akufo…

my 8 y/o came in when I was working today and then said he could do my job and looked off into nothing and muttered "th…

We have a $2,500 matching challenge open for the Great Slate, along with $5 per retweet of this solemn announcement. Help fou…

well, this is a sobering story https://t.co/tXDFU8c2ra

Does this ever happen to you? I'm trying to use my phone and someone calls me, interrupting what I am doing 🤬

You saw the tweet, and thanks to our coworkers @NatlParkService we now have a commemorative wildlife safety poster. Tha…

The Last Best Time: John Scalzi wrote about the experience being on JoCoCruise as Covid-19 started exploding in the U.S. https://…

Videogamedunkey is the video game reviewer the world deserves right now https://t.co/6jvaeQscrP

"You ought to thank me, rather. Without me, for how much longer would those unquestionable things that are suddenly suspended have gone on being presented as necessary?" https://t.co/xczpxkT5ko

They should have stopped making music videos after this. Nope, we're done. That's the best we will ever achieve as a civilization. Fin. https://t.co/E0MKxoSZ08

Big thanks to @ZachWeiner for making many of his humor books available for free download in these times, including 2^7 Nerd D…

Experts say we may be as little as two days away from finally leaving the March Age. The next epoch is provisionally bei…

This is a picture of an asteroid crater in Arizona - Look how close it came to hitting the visitors centre! https://t.co/wND…

"When she posts about finding community in social captivity, she knows what she’s talking about." https://t.co/fsK7Zbp4vv

People have been asking us for years, but today it's been released. https://t.co/m1pScap99Q

Stuff that seems inconceivable in the Internet era, but was true: we all once had the power to wake anyone we wanted to anony…

We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. 🥇 Choose your favorite artwork 🥈 Find…

I have never seen someone demolish a scholar’s reputation as savagely as Richard Epstein demolishing his own. https://t…

1 giraffe pony ready for business https://t.co/jYs8HaYrLc

Swatch type design that wouldn't age particularly well. But then again I kinda like Swatches. And I also liked the Brown Zune. Just sayin' https://t.co/MFUrLPwomn

FYI, I've added the original Law & Order Coloring Book to my store as a $5 download you can print out & color at home: ht…

98.6 isn't the correct number any more. Well, actually, it was never correct in metric https://t.co/VpKdOzsqEl

Thirty days hath September,  April, June, and November, all the rest have thirty-one Except March which has 8000

Stand back! I, an international expert in all things, will explain the product scent industry to you: men: woodsy women: flowery

If you use a Mac, and you insist on using Chrome, stop complaining about speed, fan noise, or battery life. It’s well kno…

Wishes
https://t.co/yOfEfgaIx8 (click for full comic)
#smbc #hiveworks https://t.co/j7Xs2GM3oz

My son has figured out he can have his Switch join a Fortnite squad match as squad leader, and then farm the low-skill bots and players while he plays in that same squad on PC. (tearing up, said in shaky voice) So proud of my boy right now

People need to wear masks, for protection as well as a constant reminder. It'll remind you to keep your distance. It'll remind…

Self Isolation Day 7. I think I’ve gone mad. #CoronaLockdown #COVID2019 #Quarantine https://t.co/sgwFuGKSHQ

@azbrodsky France: https://t.co/qApnRrePRS

Over last few week @rails has moved off of Google Groups to
https://t.co/juKO6oScVM based on @discourse

Much cleaner an…

This hit home. https://t.co/NE9k6e0pyg

The original Zoom meeting https://t.co/WSCYkaTCHP