27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Me in 2022 when the pandemic hasn’t ended yet because people don’t know how to act right and I’ve been holed up in my house for three years acquiring a new flavor of crazy, going to open the door for the guy in the hazmat suit that’s come to deliver my groceries
When my children ask what the world was like before coronavirus I'm showing them this
I’ve been in the hospital since Monday morning. I have kidney failure and necrotic pancreatitis. I’ve been in ICU for the entire time, suffering fevers, having to be put on a ventilator, and having to be tube fed. The hospital is under quarantine because of Coronavirus so I haven’t been able to see either of my parents. It looks like I’m going to have to spend my 23rd birthday alone in a hospital bed. I’m too weak to walk and I’ve only improved slightly
“Right, you in the white coat, get to work on curing this disease.”
“But I’m not a virologist, I work with animals and study their behaviour.”
“Just do science.”
“But my degree is in——“
“Do. Science.”
“Good news! We’ve cured coronavirus!”
“See, I knew you—”
“In mice.”
“We need the top scientists in the country working on curing coronavirus...someone hire those guys who proved mice have facial expressions!”
it’s really weird how we have this cultural idea of a generic “scientist” who is equally skilled in all fields of study, as if geology or chemistry alone didn’t consist of thousands and thousands of more focused and specialized disciplines to which people devote their entire careers
i’d like to blame Hollywood for making the general public think “scientist” is a catch-all profession and not dozens on dozens of individual disciplines
I can see how it can be comfusing seeing how they all wear the same color lab coat.
the only news I want to read
Oh to be a fat bear, unstoppable by coronavirus, popular in mechanics.
You have to read this one - it keeps getting funnier and funnier as you continue through the story.
- the photo in the link image, where he looks comically grumpy about being photographed, was the one he himself provided
- “he was trying to liven up the boredom of self-isolation with the four powerful neodymium magnets”
- ““I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.”
- “Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose.”
- ““My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me.””
I lost it at “Denies further magnets”
Man at the bar on Saturday night, Craigville, Minnesota in 1937
