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Meteor Shower PSA

If you hold the meteor too long, it may imprint on you and form a contact binary, making reintroduction to space difficult.

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Vice President First Names

[Political pundit on the ScrabbleTV News channel] "After four years of defying orthographic pressure, Joe ceded the top of the ticket to Kamala, who--after considering Josh, Mark, Andy, Roy, and Pete--picked Tim."

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University Age

This only makes it more urgent that we adopt my roadmap for the next 10 years, which should put us solidly in the lead.

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Matter

He was the first person to land a 900, which is especially impressive because pulling off a half-integer spin requires obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics.

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Exam Numbers

Calligraphy exam: Write down the number 37, spelled out, nicely.

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Chili Tornado Quake

Buildings constructed from softer materials were damaged by chili pepper impacts to the storm's high Richter-Fujita-Scoville-Mohs hardness rating.

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Olympic Sports

Thankfully for everyone involved, the Winter Olympics officials spotted me and managed to stop me before I got to the ski jump.

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House Inputs and Outputs

People think power over ethernet is so great, and yet when I try to do water over ethernet everyone yells at me.

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President Venn Diagram

Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

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CrowdStrike

We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.

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Organ Meanings

IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more.

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Beam of Light

Einstein's theories solved a longstanding mystery about Mercury: Why it gets so hot. "It's because," he pointed out, "the sun is right there."