Lecturer @ the University of Göttingen | Medievalist - hermeneutics, religion, the supernatural | Multispectral imaging

Joined May 2009
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Hermann Herzog, German/American. Painting- A Mining Town by Moonlight. 1869.
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turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung. sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.
this is pretty evil and clever. so if your samsung TV model doesnt have a microphone, it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a connected bluetooth device. this gets shipped off to bixby.
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a qdoba i passed has a sign that says: free queso any day it’s a full moon in 2026. rare, possibly never seen before, crossover of astrology and fast food. very medieval: local eatery giveth free melted cheese on the full moon. genuinely sounds like a restaurant that a witch runs
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Unfortunately this was me when i was trying to mail a horse skull I found across international borders
Every time you go to the post office the person in front of you has a problem that has never happened before in all of history.
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Have you ever seen a cemetery with epitaphs like these?
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Absolutely incredible new relief at the University of Michigan.
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This case is very similar to one recorded by Joan Forman in 1978, in The Mask of Time:
Today’s mini #Uncanny case is really strange. Is this some kind of double doppelgänger situation? A time-slip? Or something we can sceptically explain? See you tomorrow for another spoonful of the spooky.  Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube
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Wow who could have seen this coming. Good thing every school in the country gave kids laptops.
This is an incredible project: NBC News asked parents to check their kids' YouTube history during school hours — and the results show kids are spending huge chunks of the day watching videos that have nothing to do with learning nbcnews.com/specials/hooked-…
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It wouldn’t even be hard to build; you just need some capacitors and a lot of copper wire.
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How your email finds me:
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Any take on reading needs to at least pretend to deal with the fact that never before in history have people had this much access to books, in this many formats, and for this cheap. You can read infinite books for free online or through library apps. Used books are everywhere.
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i've 100% flipped my script on early halloween lawn decor. i realized that it signals to kids: we are open to trick or treating (obvious), but once a whole neighborhood does it, it signals: this is a trick or treating neighborhood. manifesting. i am obtaining a light up ghost.
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You have discovered rubrication from first principles
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Magic systems always use some ancient language like Latin or somethin but I think it'd be hilarious if spells just required like, regular English sentence structure "Get a bit warmer" "exactly 15 ice spikes" "shield that's kinda yellow and see through"
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If I recall correctly, the reason half the characters explode around 2/3rds of the way through The Stand is that King hit a wall at that point in the book for months until he thought “what if half the characters explode”
Tips for dealing with writer's block: 1. Write a sex scene 2. Kill one of your characters 3. Both #1 and #2 * doesn't work as well for academic writing
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Some last pictures from Chartres
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