semi-professional smart-ass. creator of things. co-host of @GoodJobBrain! | @colin13.bsky.social
Berkeley, California
Joined July 2008
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If you love dice rolling and engine building, then have we got a game for you! Check out Andy’s review of Bare Bones from @Colin13 for the details.
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#BoardGames #DiceGame #CardGame
4/5 ★
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New ep! 284: Your Guide to Guides— the grueling steps of becoming a London taxi driver aka the hardest entrance exam in the world, escaping the🍎Red Delicious grasp & ushering in the new era of apples, IKEA shopping quiz, awesome maps from famous books
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New ep! 271: Sailing the 7 Seas — Weird facts about cruise ships, Ted Pedas and seafaring heliophiles, Moana-land, and dive into recent Disney patents. And internet friends, .do you .kn ow your .is.la. nds?
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It's a new season!
Episode 266: Cheaper By the Dozen — Celebrating our 12th anniv, it's showtime at the Apollo w/ the 12 Olympians, name origins of months, how 12 Days of Xmas is supposed to confuse you, & 12Q pub trivia challenge. Also, eggcorn watch! goodjobbrain.com/episodes/26…
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erin and i have been exclusively communicating using linkedin messenger's predictive responses for months. this part is my favorite and what erin says we should use in a case study about AI not replacing human comms
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New ep! 263: Hard Mode — Put on your hard hats for some hard-hitting facts! Claws up for the rise of hard seltzers, challenge your obscure trivia smarts in Chris’ “very hard” quiz, hardest puzzle in the world (or the universe), beetle shells & redcoats
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256: Flat Out — Science behind gold leaf, flattest states, and how cars warn you about flat tires. Test your flatulence vocab with “FARTS OR SPORTS?” Unwrap cheese products and breakfast pastries in Karen’s flat food quiz.
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We’re back & kickin off fall season!
255: ALL QUIZ #51 — Chasing Inky, Blinky & Pinky across Chris’ best-selling vidgames quiz, “Disambiguate This!” try our Wikipedia disambiguation page challenge, sport cameos & historical musicals, find the secret in Karen’s hidden theme quiz
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I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):
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it's just absolutely *incredible* how lego reuses pieces in their designs
for their new eiffel tower model they couldn't find the right piece for the railings... so they used HOT DOGS
ALT enormous eiffel tower model, completed state, in a living room
ALT zoom in of the completed model where we can see hot dogs being used as railings
ALT zoom in of the completed model where we can see hot dogs being used as railings
ALT the hot dog vendor set by lego, completed, with a chef holding a hot dog
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New ep! 236: It’s Hip to Be Square — get your angles right with squares & cube trivia: wombat poop, GameCube double Q challenge, vintage boxed ice cream, packaging quiz, Colin’s true crime tale about secret societies, murder… and the square root of 2…?
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Imagine taking your bar exam - an exam administered by ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE BATH scholarlycommons.law.case.ed…
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Thinking about that time Janelle Shane tasked an AI with generating attractive paint color names. Here are some of the results. 💫 99pi.org/article/origin-spec…
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Here are the lighthouses of Europe.
The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible. geodienst.github.io/lighthou…
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Just as I did last year, I had the neural network generate a motto for each MLB team for the 2022 season.
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🧠 Merch is here and our store on Redbubble is open! Featuring an original illustration by artist and GJB listener @nigelsussman along with classic GJB goods.
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I took film classes from a Czech guy who was like “when I was in my country I make movie about cat who wear sunglasses, and he shows people true feelings” and years later I saw it and it kicks ass. It’s called The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses.
