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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Man, right now the Tigers can’t hit for crap. They make up for it by pitching like shit.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Tigers are going to make Dan Dickerson swear on a live microphone again.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Tigers don’t have any better luck buying a hit than I would have buying a Bentley.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In school they called me the human calculator. They’d write 5318008 on my forehead and hold me upside down. Emo Phillips (I think)
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It’s annoying to hear “news” broadcasts refer to Kirk as a conservative commentator when they have so many correct options - racist - white supremacist - Nazi Those are the characteristics it takes for a person to be respected in modern republican circles though.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Sitting outside Sunday night smoking a “ready to start the week” cigar. I hear something and think “What’s that horrible noise? It sounds like a rabbit being killed by a fox.” Nope. It was the neighbor playing some Mariah Carey song.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 26/06/2025
American Academy of Pediatrics "will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust." publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about immense growth in computing and artificial intelligence in the 1950s. users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/th...
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The Last Question
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social Isaac Asimov, back in 1956, wrote a story about Ray Kurzweil's fantasy about computers, exponential growth in computing, and the singularity. users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/th...
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The Last Question
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Baez did not seem happy with that strike 3 call.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Favorite fountain pen story. I had two young women come to my office for suggestions on their stat project. I talked to them and wrote some notes. As they were leaving my office one said “Did you see his pen?” The other one said “It’s a fountain pen. All old people like them.”
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The way it reads it seems Linda McMahon used A1 to help her write it.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Two questions, if I may. 1: What are some suggestions to getting stated writing with dip pens? 2: What are some good places to look for details about repairing old fountain pens. I have three of my mother's old pens, probably 1940s-1950s era to give an idea of age, that need some work. Thanks.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Downtown Kalamazoo MI
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
From Hawking Hills
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Not a pun but my students liked it.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I just want to say this to people who think you must have amazing penmanship to justify using a fountain pen: You don't. My penmanship is terrible. What you need to have is a reason to use them: I write letters, I wrotet lectures and tests, and keep journals (30+ years' worth) for both of my sons
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Memories from covering linear programming in a night class. "I have a question. If linear programming involves constraints that can be binding, why isn't the stopping criterion for solutions called the safe word?" "That's all for tonight. See you next week."
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Your lack of training in relevant areas shows. My experience is that people like you who claim to “play with” areas know nothing about them, so my guess is you don’t know anything about the statistics in any of these studies.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
www.facebook.com/share/r/15pm...
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Redirecting...
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Brother in law: They need to get politics out of professional sports. Me: Yup, they do need to stop singing the national anthem at the start of games. Brother in law seething with rage, walks away for another drink. Me: :)
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
He and his people made his intentions clear for four years and those clowns are acting surprised.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
170 million Americans silenced by their own government. Yes, this is a First Amendment violation. This is how moral panic leads to bad policy and a loss of rights for all.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Food for thought.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Several years ago my wife and I were in San Fran for the annual summer statistics meetings. We took one night off and at a restaurant that had been recommended: it specialized in "authentic Australian" food. Food was great, and after dinner I asked about the "Mercy Tea", allegedly an authentic
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A mathematician dies and is greeted by the devil, who is standing by a large wall. “if you can paint this wall with this glass of paint you can go to heaven.” The devil vanishes. An hour later he come back to a painted wall. “How?” he asked. “I just painted the points with rational coordinates”.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Merry Xmas Eve EVE to those who celebrate. 🎅🎄☃️ 🎁❄️
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How are faculty incorporating guidelines for student use of ai in their courses? I'm primarily interested in undergraduate math and statistics courses, as well as applied undergrad and graduate courses in regression and classification techniques.
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Michelle de los Santos @just-michelle.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
#Resist
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The average lifespan was 35 and 50% of people died before they were 2. Is what they did.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
How I used and use my fountain pens. 1. Wrote final versions of math and physics homework with fountain pens in high school and as an undergrad 2. Wrote drafts of assignments, tests, and notes for classes over 45 years of teaching statistics 3. Graded with them
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Years ago my wife and I went to an "authentic" Australian restaurant in Toronto. The menu offered (paraphrasing here) "The only historical Australian drink still served". I asked the waiter about it. She said it came from the early years when mining was growing, and prisoners were used as labor.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
You morons with conspiracies are getting tiring: never anything to support your comments, never any realistic explanation for how such an undertaking could be kept quiet for so long. This Onion headline is spot-on for you dipshits.
Onion headline summarizes conspiracy on Kennedy assassination: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, MAFIA, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, FreeMasons. President Shot 129 Times from 43 Different Angles
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
One of my undergrad professors (mid 70s) is now very sick. I was thinking about what a neat guy he was then and still is now. Fantastic teacher, hard but fair and always helping.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Just went round and round with a “covid vaccines were never tested” clown. Provided work discussing the tests it went through and a general history of the work on those vaccines. Different objection in return. Denise then claimed he was right because he called Dr. Offit a liar.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@dadjoke.bsky.social A horse walked into a bar. The bartender asked “Why the long face?” The horse replied “So I can watch for predators when I’m grazing in the plains. “
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@dadjoke.bsky.social my wife and I discussed memories of a trip to San Francisco and one dinner we had at an Australian restaurant. I had a kangaroo steak. It was tender, but it made me jumpy.
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Time to play "Coffee order or date request?" "I need that frothy and hot with no whip"
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My son’s excited and hard to hold dog after he went down his first slide.
My son’s excited dog after having his first time on a slide
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crankyoldman56.bsky.social @crankyoldman56.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This sort of crap. This is what the clowns who voted for trump voted in support of.
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