Owl's Eyes Ty

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Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· 16d

Yay math coffee selfie day. Everyone else is looking good today.

The poster with a mug of coffee and a black shirt with a rainbow bear. A banana tree and travel trailer are in the background through the window.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· 18d

It is very funny to me that so many of these people are in California.

A map of the US showing two party consent states for recordings. The relevant states are Washington, California, Montana, Illinois, Florida, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· 23d

Oh yeah, Unai Simón is a hottie. Although I feel like goalies exceed the average soccer player in hotness for some reason in general.

Unai Simón looking out over the pitch with the ball in his hands.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· 27d

"Fixes your lower back posture"

A sketch of the "Euthanasia Coaster" that has successively smaller loops to keep blood from flowing to the rider's head.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Jul 9

Or playing dentist with one?

The game Crocodile Dentist, showing the plastic crocodile biting someone's finger

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Jul 2

I might have a long term side project buzzing in the back of my brain.

Screenshot of a word document:

Working title: A Model of Disease: How Mathematicians Have Shaped Virology from HIV to COVID
Ch 1: Classical HIV narrative – discovery, PCR, and biological mathematicians that were working in other fields
Ch 2: A history of biological modeling – epidemiological compartmental models, predator prey equations, and the first viral models
Ch 3: A discovery – HIV as a rapidly reproducing illness, in contrast to the assumed slow-lentivirus story, with the help of some clever experimental designs
Ch 4: Mutation rates – adding pharmacokinetics, resistance and susceptibility to the rapid turnover led to the emergence of the multi-drug regimen
Ch 5: ?
Ch 6: ?
… (Maybe some work with hepatitis in there and how it led to modern therapies? Less familiarity here without research.)
Ch ?: The Paxlovid case study: computational teams turn an IBD model into an emergency use authorization protocol
Ch ?: Frontiers and future directions???

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Jul 1

MAG(S)A?

A canister of Great Stuff insulation foam for gaps and cracks

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Jun 27

Every now and then I remind myself that the search engine AI assistants are generally terrible at cryptic crosswords.

Screenshot of a Google search with AI mode. Text follows:

Here is the explanation for how the cryptic crossword clue "Dominant type gets to kill Rover? (3,3)" leads to the answer TOP DOG.

The Breakdown

Wordplay (Anagram): "Gets to kill Rover"

Anagram Indicator: "gets to kill" (in the sense of destroying or mangling the order of the letters)

Anagram Subject: "Rover"

Definition: "Dominant type"

How It Works

1. Identify the indicator: The phrase "gets to kill" tells you to scramble the letters of the adjacent word.

2. Count the letters: The word ROVER has 5 letters.

3. Add the remaining element: The clue says "gets to", which introduces the word TO (2 letters).

4. Combine and shuffle: Combining TO + ROVER gives you 7 letters: T, O, R, O, V, E, R.

5. Match the definition: Anagramming those 7 letters yields TOP DOG, which perfectly fits the definition of a "dominant type."

6. The Question Mark: The question mark at the end creates a clever surface reading. A "top dog" is literally a dominant canine, playing on the name "Rover," a traditional dog name.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· May 27

Wait wait wait this is the perfect pairing with the Magnus Archives booty shorts.

Red booty shorts with text: Ceaseless watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 19

1996 offers a much more, uh, visually interesting option.

Blu-ray cover of the film Independence Day. depicting the White House being obliterated by the alien craft's beam.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 15

"Zhuangzhi for Dummies, by Elon Musk" as a mock-up of the general for-dummies book covers.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 10

Ok it was the 1997 print by Portland House (of Random House)

An image of the book The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams, Complete and Unabridged. The cover is black with gold block text and gold outlines with the little goofy spheres with arms and extended tongues in a mocking gesture in each of the four corners, also in gold.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 6

Fun game of "spot the error" with these cards I picked up at the store.

A box of cards showing a painting of the two dippers with a crescent moon in between.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 5

If the NIST can produce SRM 2387 as a standard reference for peanut butter, surely get can give us an standard reference for a fabricated boyfriend dick if they just get the right team together.

Screenshot from NIST.gov showing a jar of peanut butter available for purchase at a price of $1217. The standard peanut butter is SRM 2387.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 4

Look, this already happened, we don't need to do it again.

A poster for the film HAIR with the word HAIR repeated in rainbow tones running down a vertical line, and a rainbow set of people in dancy poses.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 3

Eyyyy my Tidal recap is up.

Tidal screenshot of "types" of music:

Cinematic Folk
Ethereal Pop
Witchy Grooves
Dark Electronic
Expansive Orchestral
Organic Downtempo
Fantasy Soundscapes
Melancholic Indie
Tribal Ambient
Emotive Storytelling

Most listened to artists:

01: Woodkid
02: Lorien Testard
03: Florence + The Machine
04: Rezz
05: Alice Duport-Percier
06: Ellie Goulding
07: Nobuo Uematsu
08: Astropilot
09: Sacha Sackett
(Beyond screenshot)
10: Monolink

Most played tracks:

01: Fable (Sacha Sackett)
02: I Love You (Woodkid)
03: Everybody Scream (Florence + The Machine)
04: Ghost Lights (Woodkid)
05: To Ashes and Blood (Woodkid)
06: Iron (Woodkid)
07: Prophecy (Rezz)
08: Baltimore's Fireflies (Woodkid)
09: Conquest of Spaces (Woodkid)

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 2

I mean Chris is right about it being a "success" (the Santa Fe was incapacitated and essentially retreated) but it's kind of funny for *two* people to have a "Do you know who you're talking to?" moment in one exchange?

Twitter thread starting from Apr 25, 2025:

Chris Parry (@DrChrisParry): This just happened 43 years ago. [Image of a helicopter dropping a charge onto a submarine]

Chad (@chadpollard): How many depth charge attacks on a submarine have there been since 1945?

Chris Parry: The Swedes dropped some in the Cold War and others were dropped in the Falklands War. This was the only successful attack.

Bikain (@MarianoBicain, May 2): Successful attack? The Santa Fe got back to grytviken and moor at the dock. Did not sink her!

Chris Parry: Look bozo - you weren't there. So wind your neck in.

Bikain: My father was the commander submarine S21 ARA Santa Fe. I know the storie. Bozo? More respect please.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Dec 2

It's really just a "starter" fountain pen from what I know of them, but I love the character it adds for cards and stuff, especially on top of doing wax seals and shit.

A Pilot fountain pen in a case, with a box of ink cartridges next to it

The same fountain pen, propped up with the lid off.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Nov 17

Sure, I'll play along. What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

The cover art of Hikaru Utada's DEEP RIVER, showing Hikki's face and hair in closeup, in grayscale, lighted from the right side and up.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Nov 15

4"×3" slide depicting John Wilkes Booth leaning forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.

based on the depiction from a mechanical glass slide by T. M. McAllister of New York, c1865-75 Restored by Adam Cuerden

Notably, the slide shows the rear view of Lincoln and Mary Todd in their seats and Wilkes-Booth is aiming the gun at the back of Lincoln's head.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Nov 13

Other side for context

The other side of the same figure, showing a door and a wreath with a ribbon

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Nov 13

Presently faced with decision paralysis as to the color scheme options for retro tear drop trailers.

A figurine of a retro travel trailer, unpainted, with a brush and empty paint tray in the foreground

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Nov 4

Don't want to talk to anyone at your Halloween parties? Do I have a solution for you!

OP in a French Mime-as-marionette outfit, with striped shirt, red neckerchief, and facepaint emphasizing porcelain cracks and a moving jaw waving to the camera next to a taller dark haired man.

Same outfit as previous picture but on a stage next to a guy in a bodysuit that has gigantic knockers and a blue wig.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Nov 3

Altman can go kick rocks.

The statue by William Fawkes that appears to depict Samuel Johnson kicking a stone in the "I refute it thus!" moment.

The context of this swift kick was during a conversation with James Boswell, who was talking with Johnson about Bishop Berkeley's philosophy, and Johnson tired of the conversation about idealism/non-materialism and kicked a rock to get Boswell to shut up.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Oct 29

Presently rocking custom notification and alarm sounds from Fool and Scholar audio dramas. 😅

A screenshot of settings showing the ringtone is the White Vault theme, the alarm sound is Lucas's Chant (from The White Vault) and the notification sound is from Liberty.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Oct 8

Muscles are built out of these interlaced bands, and they naturally pull in against each other. It takes ATP to break those bonds and get the bands to "relax". Rigor mortis is what happens when the ATP is depleted and they become stuck.

A graphic showing a myofibril at various stages of zoom in. A sarcomere is shown with a set of thick myosin filaments sandwiched between thin actin filaments in both relaxed and contracted state. At the bottom, it shows the working stroke of the myosin head, and how separation of the head requires ATP.

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Oct 5

Been doing the camping thing this weekend. A wonder I have cell service honestly.

OP holding a mug, with an open field behind him with a line of trees in the far distance

Owl's Eyes Ty@jtsdmpk· Oct 2