Brendan Riley he/him

I'm not going to post here very often. If you're looking for me in a place where the sky is blue-r, I'll be under the nom-de-plume wombat929.

What the heck @TeamYouTube ?! Grant's channel is great! Funny, informative, and honest. Please right this wrong and restore his channel!

I will be elsewhere for a while as wombat929 in case you're looking for me.

At any time, all I need to get a laugh is to watch a few minutes of the first David. S. Pumpkins sketch from SNL.

"What a tangled web we weave when first we assemble to kick ass." -- the posh giant spider to Kugrash in @dropoutnation #TheUnsleepingCity

Fun fact: it takes roughly 100 minutes to sort the cards from two sets of #Codenames into separate sets.

When I imagined my life as a professor, I don't think I thought I would ever use the adobe comment function to highlight the phrase 'but plug trophies' and put, in the comments, 'butt-plug trophies.' Thanks a lot, #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

Just explained the Star Wars Kid meme to my daughter so she'd understand some jokes in #ArrestedDevelopment

Watching @dropout #EscapeFromTheBloodKeep and I feel genuine joy literally EVERY time @MikeWTrapp speaks in his Sokhbarr's voice. Thanks so much for so much fun, cranky animal keeper!

"If I can't Change Your Mind" by SUGAR is still a banger.

Hot dog! Delightful game of #Mosaic with @pbooth81 . After nearly 3 hours, the add-up session was a nail biter: 319 to 314! Great game, @Forbiddengms !

Got a suspicious email today and when I hovered over the link they wanted me to click, it went to a website that had the name 'old macdonald had a phish farm.' Talk about not even trying.

In my class today, we had three tables of Secret Hitler going. Whenever any of the tables passed a Liberal law, they would applaud loudly, and everyone at the other two tables would also applaud. It was amazing. #games #teaching

I think it's a real shame that, as far as I can tell, there are no photos of Dabney Coleman dabbing.

Jerry Reed, "Lord Mr. Ford," - "Now the average American father and mother own one whole car and half of another, and I'll bet that half of a car is a trick to drive, don't you?"

Turns out the adjective for "relating to Deans" is "decanal," or at least, my Provost's email uses it that way. Does it only apply to academic deans or also to people named Dean? "In The Order of the Phoenix, Harry spent a lot of time under a cloud of decanal depression."

I installed a new car battery in my van today. As someone who isn't on the lowest tier of "handy," I've still always felt very trepidatious about doing anything to my car more complex than putting new lightbulbs in. So this is a win!

This is just a reminder that LFO rhymed "hornet" with "sonnet" in "I like girls who wear abercrombie." You can do anything you put your mind to.

@meeplesandwine Where do I find the "next game we are gonna buy" survey? Good ep. Makes me want to get my copy of Cat In The Box off the SOO.

Grammar help please. Consider these two sentences: - My cat's nature compels it to chase lasers. - Not only does my cat's nature compel it to chase lasers, but also to meow in the night. How can I explain why 'compel' here take an 's' in the first example but not the second?