Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Missouri and I would have gone with clown and buffoon. What do I win? 020 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to those who celebrate 011 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's a travesty. I've had colloidal and chelate rejected. Meanwhile epode is a perfectly good word. This whole thing is the revenge of the English majors 100 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comSept. 11 and the Persistence of Memory (Gift Article)Twenty-five years later, fleeting memories and indelible images still haunt those who lived through the attacks and their aftermath. 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026We probably still have a few months left before we have to succumb to our new robot overlords 010 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Nominative determinism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/s...nytimes.comPhysicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved. (Gift Article)Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. 022 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I hate to quibble with the alt text but "mai che fai" would have the the fingers and thumb pitched with a shaking motion under the chin. The open hand and forward thrust I read as the final stage of a "va fa gul." All in Napolitano, not Italian, of course 100 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Crazy bastard has been a term of grudging approbation since the publication of the greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time 061 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I don't know how I feel about this, but as a marketing tie-in, it's brilliant Girl Scouts highly unimpressed after New Jersey troop teams up with local cannabis dispensary to sell cookies | The Independent share.google/bZXNIHTeBsFk...share.googleGirl Scouts unimpressed after troop teams up with cannabis dispensaryGirl Scout cookie season runs from January through April 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I haven't been this annoyed since colloidal wasn't a word 110 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026It's 5:30. Not only is the clock at 30th Street Station wrong, it's impossible 100 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I feel for you. They will break our hearts in the end, like always 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Has anyone said Hugh Jackman yet? Because the right answer is Hugh Jackman performing Marian the Librarian with Miss Piggy 1281 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Little kids should make their own light saber noises Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain | WIRED share.google/N8DxqLDTtrEh...share.googleLego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital BrainThe new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego experience—including the minifigs. 010 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Many have said to me that things need to be "flushed out." They're not always wrong. 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026not a lot that is "charming or quaint in appearance" around here these days 020 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 24/12/2025The Metric Conversion Act was signed into law 50 years ago today. That's nearly three score kilofathoms 010 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 23/12/2025If they're brewing it in Oklahoma the word has entered the language 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 14/12/2025This guy should not pay for a drink for the rest of his life. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...nytimes.comBystander Tackled and Disarmed One of the Sydney Gunmen, Video Shows 051 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 01/12/2025My Catholic school education, K-12, made it a point to say that evolution was consistent with the Bible. In high school, Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was part of the religious syllabus. 040 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 30/11/2025@profanity.accountant I don't swear very much here because I can block all of the mouth-breathing assholes who piss me off 110 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Not aware of any Nobel prizes that have come out of office parks in New Brunswick 020 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Not quite that simple. Broken up and parts were sold to Nokia, including Bell Labs. Nokia is now vacating the legendary Bell Labs Murray Hill facility, where I spent some time early in my career, to move Bell Labs to an office park in New Brunswick. 130 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Hard to get IT people to care about this because most of them think baud means b/s 140 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025That did it. Just cancelled. No reason to repeat speculation from someone with no credibility. Honestly, what's the point of paying for journalism if they're afraid to say an uncredible source is not credible? 050 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/11/2025So you're telling me they don't like hearing about old girlfriends? 020 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Interesting discussion of woodpeckers on a recent Science Friday pod.link/73329284/epi...pod.link 120 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I'm still stuck. Is Thanksgiving a verb? Is Thanks a verb and the kerning is wrong? Should I read Didion as "did on?" 🤷🏻♂️ 130 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 17/11/2025It is helpful, though, to have an actual example of begging the question 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Oates once berated me at a book signing so maybe Elon and I agree on one thing 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Well, it's possible to be smart, interesting, and despicable 020 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Love my induction stovetop but hate needing to navigate the touch panel when the oatmeal is about to boil over 000 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/11/2025So this tells me there's an overlap in the Venn diagram of "People who know how to use a terminal window" and "people who will follow an email link to a web site and blindly copy-paste a command into a terminal window." Who knew? 010 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I have fond memories of the Altair 8800 from my high school's math lab en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_... 040 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I realize this is social media and I don't want vexillology to interfere with all the venting, but the tattoo is of a US flag that predates the Betsy Ross flag. There were others but Betsy had the best marketing team. 150 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025That right there is some world class trolling www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...nytimes.comOnce Again: The Pope Likes That Other Chicago Team, Not the Cubs 020 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. Purely as baseball, that Series deserved a better ending than a bloop single. For baseball as symbol in the storytelling, the win would represent New York's resilience and recovery 160 0
Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 19/10/2025The Babe will be with you kids in a bit but first he has to finish his fifth hot dog and third beer 010 0