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John Hayden. So many hobbies, so little time. Smite incandescent metal; make music, art, and beautiful things. Boston Grampa; retired IC designer. Be safe, be kind. He/him Guns2gardens.org

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John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 9d

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John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 22d

I’m having Grok make a historically accurate live action The Little Prince Wait til you see the volcanoes

Cover of the book The Little Prince

A waiflike blond boy stands atop a tiny ten-foot spherical planet in a yellow star spangled sky. There are two volcanoes about a foot high, and scattered flowers

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 23d

It’s great to see this SCOTUS restructuring get the groundswell of support it deserves. I’ve been hoping for exactly this for years (18y terms, then senior status)

What would a term-limits law look like? The current leading proposals all share the same structure: 18-year terms for justices, followed by a shift to senior status.
Senior justices would no longer sit on the nine-member Court. Instead, their duties would change to include sitting by designation on lower federal courts, as many have done and continue to. (As Alicia, Steve and Eliazar rightly note, the phrase "term limits" is not technically accurate here, because the justices continue to hold their office after 18 years. Their term doesn't end; it merely changes. Nevertheless, "term limits" is a familiar shorthand in conversations of this nature, so we'll keep using it here until someone comes up with something better.)

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 24d

This was from The Amazing Race game show many years ago (2010) during a watermelon catapult challenge. She suffered minor injuries, but she and her partner went on to come in 2d overall. The downside was becoming known as The Watermelon Girl: “i still get recognized, mostly in the produce section”

A woman in a game show pulling back a medieval catapult with a watermelon in it, then (in an inset) getting hit in the face when it ricocheted backwards

Text from news article:
“The video from the 2010 season of the reality show immediately went viral and has since been viewed millions of times on YouTube.
Claire, who at the time was a Home Shopping TV host, went on The Amazing Race with her best friend Brook. In one of their first challenges, Claire had to fire a watermelon out of a slingshot and hit a target on the other side of a field. But it went spectacularly wrong and the watermelon came flying back at her head, striking her right in the face.
News.com.au caught up with Claire to find out how it happened, what injuries she sustained and what it's like to be known as "watermelon girl".

Let's start with the challenge. What do you remember from that day?
I grabbed the watermelon and you had to try and knock down the knight. At the time I was so little, so to get enough tension in the slingshot I had to lay all the way down. When I went to release it I had too much tension and the leather strap wrapped around the watermelon and flung back into my face.
did know what had happened. was laying my back diwas like menint
was just in shock. I started pulling the watermelon off my face and I thought it was my own flesh.
While you're in The Amazing Race, your sound crew and camera crew never leave your side and when the crew left, I was like, "I'm in trouble, this is bad." They called in a medical team and they asked me some basic questions and then they vanished and the camera crew came back.
I said to Brooke, "What do we do now?" And that's when her big line came: "You have to finish... They don't call it The Amazing Race for nothing!"

Picture of a woman sitting and wiping watermelon glop from her face.
Article text continues:”
Did you sustain any injuries?
I couldn't feel my face. My lip started swelling up and I had a little black eye. Another medical team were waiting for me (after the challenge) and they gave me some Panadol and told me I was going to be fine. Then a producer came up to me and said, "Thanks for our Emmy this year."
Brook comes across quite harsh in the clip, telling you to get up and complete the challenge.
There's a lot they didn't show. It was edited the perfect way and she did get a lot of sh*t for that, but she's really loving and endearing.
blaire carried on wit tne challenge arter being nit, despite sustaining a tew tacial injuries. Image / Tourude
The clip of you getting hit in the face leaked before that season of The Amazing Race started airing on TV. What was the reaction like at the time?

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 24d

No cmon be nice folks, he’s gotten much better at simulating a human since his first attempt

Bug Man alien in a stolen human skin from Men In Black

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 25d

As evidenced by Community

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· 29d

I have no need for etiquette and protocol

Classic Star Wars quote: uncle Owen, looking over C3PO: “i suppose you’re programmed for etiquette and protocol”

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 10

Like the idea of(long predicted) ads in space

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 10

To this day I have a big folder full of state and regional maps for long road trips. V important for the eclipse-chasing in '17 and '24, cos you can pencil in the path of totality and know what little burg you have to chase off to when the weather forecast changes

A leather file organizer full of road maps

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 6

(speaking as a complete innocent of FIFA soccer) are they supposed to cleat the other guy's embouchure

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 5

Boston Pops go for the big 1812 finish 🎻🪊🎶💣💥🎆

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 5

Boston Pops Esplanade fireworks to the 1812 overture turned it up to 11 with this drone show We got tossing tea off the tea party ship, Paul Revere riding, cannons lit, it rocks

Drone display over Boston's Back Bay, of the tea party ship with boxes being tossed overboard

Drone display over Boston's Back Bay, of Paul Revere riding with a lantern

Drone display over Boston's Back Bay, of two cannons with red barrels firing overhead

Drone display over Boston's Back Bay, of the final title : MA 250, and curlicue ornamentation

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 5

Found em

A crude photo inverse of the b2 that looks like the missing blue ceiling tiles

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jul 4

Tune in tomorrow folks

The iconic Garfield panel where, the morning after an epic catnip bender, he wakes up in an Atlantic City alley surrounded by trash and a smiling doll

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 28

Aspirationally monumental while simultaneously laughably shoddy Emblematic of the entire presidency

Close up of the Great American State Fair’s temporary scale model
buildings, with skinny randomly-leaning stakes holding it all up

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 26

Ok already dude

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 26

GAAH looking pretty undead

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 23

Oh hi Always fun to see a new face out there! City-block-sized chonker with a nonzero but very low (fifteen sub-ppm possibles) impact chance in the next century. Only been tracked since last weekend cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/ (Yes i do keep this tab open & check it every day like sports scores)

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 22

We had a bulldog with a similar level of self regulation (zero) who would chase the giant tennis ball through the snow maze until he just vibrated into bits

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 22

Whale blowing rainbows at yesterday’s Cape Cod whale watch

John Hayden ❌👑🌊@jhayden· Jun 22

Fun fact: among the very first were tv CRT tubes (“williams tubes”) that stored bits as glowing charged dots, briefly This chonker is a 256-bit (1/4Kb) 🐏 used in the Machine at the Princeton IAS, the first stored program computer