My daughter has a peanut allergy, so I’m incredibly grateful that so many houses were giving out non-chocolate treats tonight.

On the other hand, I get to eat the treats she can’t.  Seriously, Brooklyn:  ONE peanut butter cup?  Yeesh.

I’d never heard of the stellarator concept before, so it was interesting to hear that this kind of large-scale engineering work was going on to examine the concept.

Even better are the results of an image search for
 [Wendelstein 7-X], which honestly look like some kind of alien technology.

h/t Stefan Iaru 

http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-reactor-might-save-nuclear-fusion

Caught a little bit of Brooklyn Rainbow on the way home from the park this morning.

The CarMax guy completely played the author of this article.  He knew the second this car rolled up that they couldn’t buy it, and got the guy to let him drive it around town anyway.

I’m not criticizing, I’m jealous.

http://jalopnik.com/i-took-my-nissan-skyline-gt-r-to-carmax-for-an-appraisa-1736481329

Does anyone have recommendations for good podcasting apps that have Sonos support?  I’m generally happy with PocketCasts, but Shifty Jelly has been telling me forever now that Sonos support is coming “soon” with no results (and, annoyingly, the not-entirely-valuable local discovery feature) in the meantime.  I’m tired enough of waiting on them that I’m willing to check out something new.  So, suggestions?

In the sphere of human interaction, there are few obstructionary forces more powerful than a petty bureaucrat in a snit.

Too true, Alchemy. Too true.

Postmodern Jukebox covering “Hey Ya”, by Outkast.

I’m generally not that interested in this sort of thing, but this one really caught me.  Very cool, both at normal speed and at 1.25x.

Financier, meet externality.

drops mic