RevBeaker

RevBeaker

@revbeaker.bsky.social

Just an engineer wasting time

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This cat would have been unimpressed by Alexander the Great

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social

Sometimes in life you just need to stop and yell in a basket on the sidewalk. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

This was me when, after going back to college, I received blank stares from the other students after saying, "Same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel."

realfinney.bsky.social@realfinney.bsky.social

Someday soon, a teenager is going to pick up one of your DVDs and ask what it is.

Press Release: The drug you take for (mostly medically triggered) anxiety may be contaminated with a cancer causing chemical! Me: Cool. With all these digital records I hope it’s easy to figure out if my prescriptions are in the recall. CVS: LOL. LMAO.

Travelers missed a marketing opportunity with the Hartford ballpark. A giant mechanical umbrella that pops out of center field whenever it stops raining. Filled with puppies that parachute onto the field.

Most people: Kittens! How cute! Me: My fearful attachment style will not let me enjoy this fluffy ball and instead focus anxiety about the possibility of passing my neuroses onto my child.

My son loved The Hobbit, but his kindergarten mind immediately picked up on the lack of women in it. When I started talking about the characters in the Lord of the Rings he was incredulous that the Fellowship was all male.

My child has taken to bringing up my being an engineer. This is problematic as I don’t want to crush youthful enthusiasm but I also don’t like to be reminded of work.

D.A.R.E. spent too much time warning about peer pressure to do drugs and not enough time warning about accepting the papacy.

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This morning, I started up my computer, and Microsoft Edge filled the screen with this message: LET'S RELIVE WHAT MADE 2025 SO SPECIAL! Dear Microsoft Edge, please let's not.

My favorite part about Wordle on the Times website is the part where it insults you. “You solved the puzzle in two steps, but your second guess was expected to leave 1.8 possible solutions as opposed to my guess which would have left 1.2. I therefore award the correct guess a 68/100, moron.”

I want to play the "What almost killed you" game, but I don't feel like any of my encounters were close enough. Sure I've flipped over a car, a riding lawnmower, a sailboat, several bikes, and have had plenty of other close calls - but nothing that required medical attention...

Potatoes are unpleasant but they can at least be improved upon by frying them or slathering them in some form of meat sauce. The same cannot be said for sweet potatoes which are unpleasant no matter what is done to them.

Buckaroo Bonzai Against The World Crime League

Ben K.@benjaminkabak.com

If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.

Pharma: These are the nighttime cold pills. You take them once before going to bed. Me: Makes sense. Pharma: These are the daytime cold pills. You take them a few times during the day. Me: Got it. Pharma: We give you the same amount of each in a box. Me: Wait…

Flu vaccine clinics at work are good. Clinics where you can check off boxes to get additional shots at the same time; extra good. Being sleepy from vaccines on work time instead of free time; double plus good.