#regexkind

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Turkish tea, chamomile, matcha

(From Tea Asks)

turkish tea: where have you travelled?

I've taken "normal" vacations to a few places - London, Paris, a small town I don't remember the name of but somewhere between Toulouse and Carcassonne, once to Nassau - but the majority of traveling I've done has either been for my own academic reasons (e.g. a conference in Hong Kong, going to Arecibo with an astronomy professor for whom I was writing software, a glee club tour of Brazil, a band trip to Costa Rica) or because my spouse was going to a conference and so I came along just to see a cool city (Honolulu, Cardiff, Krakow, Lausanne).

Also one year my spouse had conferences in Venice and Cardiff within a month of each other, and we convinced the entire engineering team of the tiny company I worked for to do a half-work, half-vacation retreat where we got airbnbs in Venice, then Munich, then Vienna over a three-week period, so that was a lot of fun (I loved Munich's entire-island-spanning science museum, and really should go back there again someday since the time we had wasn't enough to see all of it).

chamomile: comfort movie?

Hmmm. I don't know that I really have one? I mostly watch things if other people are watching them with me, and play video games if I'm just entertaining myself. But if I had to pick one, it would probably be one of A) The Road to El Dorado, B) Bringing Up Baby, or C) Star Wars: A New Hope.

matcha: favourite book?

I am very bad at picking favorites of anything, so here are a few:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will always hold a special place in my heart, it being a book that I memorized much of as a child. I suspect it was very influential in shaping my sense of humor.

This Is How You Lose The Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, is probably the best book I've read in recent memory. I would describe it as a queer enemies-to-lovers story against the backdrop of a massive war fought across all of time and space between two incredibly technologically advanced civilizations. It's partly epistolary, and the writing is absolutely beautiful. And of course there's lots of time travel.

The entirety of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

The Murderbot Chronicles, by Martha Wells. One of my favorite protagonists.

I wrote the post up to this point and now any time I try to add more and save or queue the post it reverts to this state, sitting in my drafts, which is weird. I'm gonna try just posting it outright and see what happens

#ask memes #regexkind #attempted posting

[caprice-nisei-enjoyer]

He's a grown man now. And a published author. Goes by R. D. Tables.

#can you tag the xkcd number? I'm too lazy to look it up #edit: 327 #thank you regexkind

[eiko-chatter]

gay skating prom outfit!

bonus: blurry picture of my LED hair butterfly (project with @regexkind (she did most of the work))

#selfies

[eightyonekilograms]

Universities sometimes have public outreach days; the chem departments out to have a day where they let people come in and use the mass spectrometer.

(cc @regexkind)

#although probably the reason they don't do this #apart from lab equipment being expensive and fragile #is that everyone would make drugs and/or bombs

[truama]

@lieblingsfags @regexkind whats with all this prime denial?

@official-kircheis

#fave

[regexkind]

One must imagine regexkind slutty

👉👈🥺

[lovelanguageisolate]

I'm blocking the kettle.

@regexkind: I need to get by you to reach the boiling machine.

me (who heard "boyling" instead of "boiling"): I've seen a security hologram of Anakin...killing boylings.

#meanwhile at thanksgiving

[olivia-is-not-a-slut]

Tag Game: Tunes

🎶✨ when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶

Okay I have zero idea if this is what people were expecting buttt 🤷‍♀️

Tagged by the lovely @hazelnut-icecream

Tagging @a-luring-dom @avulleonastick @whoneedsacostume @cottagecorewhore420 @regexkind @chrishansenfromdatelinenbc @cleverbabygh0ul @whydoyouthinktheycallmeghostie @yellowcake-uranus @raspberrrybow

#Spotify #me #tag game #music

[sufficientlylargen]

🐰 everything I've seen implies you're a sweetheart and a dork

Awww, thanks :-) I try my best to be both :-)

#ask memes #regexkind

[bibliolithid]

Tag 9 people to get to know better

Tagged by the lovely @toasthaste and @fallowhearth

3 ships: Shipping isn't a thing my mind spends much time on but I'd say Skitter/Tattletale, Breq/Seivarden, and Kvothe/Bast

First ever ship: Belle/Gaston, don't judge me, I was like, five @_@

Last song: Ionic Grid by SayMaxWell (recommended by spotify based on a playlist)

Last movie: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Currently reading: Several things, uh, Amber Skies, Debt: The First 5000 Years, and Nona the Ninth mostly

Currently watching: I just finished Over the Garden Wall so I'm kind of between shows right now?

Currently consuming: Sugar-free root beer

Currently craving: Executive function, restablishing my habits, and my leg to stop hurting so I can run again. ALSO MORE DAMN SUNLIGHT

tagging @bellowingwhack @phaeton-flier @avulleonastick @regexkind @koito-yuu @tanadrin @keynes-fetlife-mutual @vacuously-true @endreal

#about the 'lithid #apologies if you've already been tagged or posted

[avulleonastick]

5, 8, 9, 11!

5. who do you feel most you around?

Gosh, what a question. But ummm, @olivia-is-not-a-slut , almost definitely. Definitely feel like I can be the most parts of myself around her

8. tag someone (or multiple people) who make you feel good.

I notice a theme here, Ananda XD

@olivia-is-not-a-slut , obvs

Also, lately, @regexkind (xp) and @depraved-paladin

9. what calms you down?

Podcasts and the Path of Champions game mode in Legends of Runeterra. That’s generally a sure fire way to stop an anxiety spiral.

11. what’s your ideal date?

Hmmmm. That’s a hard one. I mean, if I’m allowed to be maximally uninteresting, a house date with cuddling and tv watching. If I have to leave the house, ummmm, what allows for the most cuddling? Maybe a picnic? Seems like you could cuddle on a picnic. So yeah, let’s say a picnic!

Ask meme!

#thank youuu #<333 #pay attention to me!

[eightyonekilograms]

Our department lets anyone submit a sample for spectroscopic analysis (gas or liquid mass spectrometry) as long as they pay a minimal fee. The nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers have a similar arrangement. The problem with letting the average person come in and use the mass spectrometer is that you have to dilute the sample quite a lot with some nasty solvents, and the problem with using the NMR spectrometer is that you have to not have metal on your person. But you can watch it be done!

Thank you anon! More info for @regexkind

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@regexkind replied to your post “"Don't take this the wrong way," said the doctor. "But you don't look very lush, if you know what I mean."”

Atrocious bedside manner

I wonder if the author realized that this is the exact conversation that occurs in one of Andrew Hussie's earlier comic/novels?

#homestalgebra #homestuck meta

[lumsel]

tagged by @regexkind

favorite color(s): Green green green! Chartruese and seafoam and lime and forest, all greens are mean

currently reading: Last book I read was A Canticle for Liebowitz, I’ve been meaning to get another book from the library since...

currently craving: an arm that doesnt get sore when i draw too much ;_;

tea or coffee?: Iced mocha! I don’t get to drink much coffee though cause it messes with me meds

last series watched: Bocchi the Rock

last movie watched: My Dinner with Andre (did not finish, I was only half paying attention and it occured to me halfway through that I should really be giving a movie like this my full attention)

last song listened to: Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Champion Theme

Tagging: @peripapaya @rhadamanthus39 @kaiasky @cromulentenough

#as per prev tags: feel free to ignore this if you're tagged natch

[regexkind]

Can you explain your username?

I don’t get it…

In the webcomic Homestuck, the suffix "-kind" is used to denote a weapons class (hammerkind, ½bladekind, ½bowkind, etc). Almost always the weapons suck somehow.

In computer science, "regular expressions" (often abbreviated to regex) has a specific theoretical meaning to do with collections of strings of finite length, but in practice ends up referring to a kind of souped-up find-and-replace. They work great in a pinch but are seldom a robust solution. There's a kind of folk wisdom suggesting that if you have a problem, and try to automate it away using regular expressions, you will soon have two problems.

Hence "regexkind" is the use of regular expressions as a shitty, shitty weapon

#hs

[eikotheblue]

tag game

tagged by @noctilia

favorite color(s): blue(s)

currently reading: Nona the Ninth

last song listened to: Copied City

last movie watched: Knives Out

last series watched: Amphibia! (still watching it with Remi. We’re on early s2, just met Marcy (Marcy my beloved...))

currently craving:  Hmmm. Some high-intensity flow state gaming?

currently working on: Various home improvement projects, my work/life balance, my poi skills.

tea or coffee?: sugary coffee-related drinks

tagging: @toasthaste @23rdhunter @spiralingintocontrol @regexkind @avulleonastick @fermatas-theorem @shacklesburst @koito-yuu (and whoever sees this and wants to do it)

#tag game