John George

@jcgeorge.bsky.social

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Professor of Mathematics, punster, cat steed, Working On A Novel but never seems actually to write. SF/F/H fan. Vaxxed. My opinions ≠anyone else's. He/him.

Early WorldWideWeb collaborators, including Berners-Lee, originally proposed the use of UDIs: Universal Document Identifiers. An early (1993) draft of the HTML Specification referred to "Universal" Resource Locators. This was dropped some time between June 1994 and October 1994. In his book Weaving the Web, Berners-Lee emphasizes his preference for the original inclusion of "universal" in the expansion rather than the word "uniform", to which it was later changed, and he gives a brief account of the contention that led to the change.
A curious neighbor. Very young deer on the grass in an open area by a large tree.
A Desmos screen shows the equation y^3-4y+x^3-9x=0 with the graph of that equation, a red line forming a twisting sideways "S" curve on a grid with x and y coordinate grid lines at every 0.2 units.
A set of black mesh shelves is visible. Below the top shelf is a gray cat peering curiously at the viewer.
This is a picture of an amazingly cheerful-looking Clouded Leopard cub, credit to Shellie Pick, Smithsonian's National Zoo. This and other images available at si.edu.
An orange cat and a graying black cat ate curled together on the seat of an office chair. The black cat is looking at the camera, and the orange cat appears asleep, head on the black cat's front legs.
A fat orange cat lies on an office chair, staring in apparent indignation to the viewer's left. A bright orange safety vest covers the back of the chair.
Three Peanuts(TM) comic strips. (1) Sally says "Guess what? I've been asked to be in the Christmas play! I'm going to be an angel. All I have to do is say 'Hark!'" Then Snoopy says, "I'm glad they didn't ask me.. I would have said 'Bark!'" (2) Sally says, "This is what I have to do in the Christmas play. When the sheep are through dancing, I come out and say, 'Hark!' Then Harold Angel starts to sing." Charlie Brown says, "Harold Angel?" Sally: "It's right here in the script..." (3) Charlie on phone: "I don't know...I didn't see the rest of the play..As soon as Sally said 'Hockey stick!' and everyone laughed, I left. She gets everything mixed up...She even thought someone named 'Harold Angel' was going to sing! Excuse me, someone's at the door..." At the door, Charlie sees a boy who says, "Hi! Is Sally home? My name is Harold Angel..."
The profile of a user who declares in all-caps that "Trump is the best US President Ever" and "There are only two genders!" Next to the Follow button I have clicked the three dots giving me the options of "Share," "Add to Lists," "Mute Account," "Block Account," and "Report Account." If this person's views offend you, block! That's what the option is for!
A still from the 1922 black and white silent film _Nosferatu_, the earliest vampire movie still extant. The title creature stares at the camera, leaning to one side as it stands over... maybe a body? Perhaps a sleeping victim? Its ears are pointed and the fangs are at the front of the mouth where the incisors would be, not to the sides as the canines.
A picture of Count von Count from Sesame Street, and another of Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the US, 1981–1988.
A very large cat on a yellow background is shown walking over a dead snake. Underneath are the words "OH LAWD HE TREADING", a reference to the Gadsden "Don't Tread On Me" flag and to the "childless cat ladies" trope of the GOP.
A large orange cat is curled into a ball on an office chair. Two paws, a nose, and a tail are visible.
A fuzzy orange cat curled into a ball on the seat of a desk chair.
Green leaves on a shrub are seen through a large cobweb. The web forms a funnel down which the legs of a funnel-web spider can be seen.
The first impeachment resolution includes the following impeachment articles against Justice Thomas: 1. Failure to disclose financial income, gifts and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information. 2. Refusal to recuse from matters concerning his spouse's legal interest in cases before the court. 3. Refusal to recuse from matters involving his spouse's financial interest in cases before the court. The second impeachment resolution includes the following impeachment articles against Justice Alito: 1. Refusal to recuse from cases in which he had a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party in cases before the cort. 2. Failure to disclose financial income, gifts, and reimbursements, property interests, liabilities, and transactions, among other information. Continued in replies.
The picture shows a picture of troops leaving the beach running into the surf, in the same general direction as military ships in the background. The caption above reads "WE WILL REMEMBER THEM On this day in 1944, British and Allied troops led an operation to liberate France..." Above, another poster has written, "They're going the wrong way you utter dimwit." One ship has a US flag, and the soldiers' helmets look like US helmets.
On the left, a picture of Daniel Craig with a speech balloon saying "Bond. James Bond." On the right, a picture of a grim-looking tuxedo cat with a collar and small bow tie, with a speech balloon saying, "Butt. Fluffy Butt." The two figures have similarly grim expressions.
Futurama season 3 episode 2 "Parasites Lost." Fry eats an old egg-salad sandwich with worms that improve his brain and body, and struggles to get rid of them.
Small green frog wearing yellow hat with red star, above the words "I has a hat"
Mary Anne Vecchio screams and gestures as she kneels by the dead body of a student, Jeffrey Miller, lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, May 4, 1970. This photograph won a Pulitzer Prize.
A medieval portrait of a saint over which is written "How a bunny became part of Easter." The saint is holding his right hand up in a gesture of benediction, and the page of a book that he is holding in his left shows the shadow of the right hand appearing like the image of a bunny.
A fat orange cat lies sleeping on a blue blanket. His tummy is white. His left rear foot has visible pink "toe beans."
Title page of book titled "Ducks: How to Make Them Pay," by William Cook. Text above reads 'Review: "Let me tell you I was bitterly disappointed to learn that this book is, in fact, an instructional guide to the profitable husbandry of ducks as a craft. There is not one sliver of insight about holding ducks accountable for their crimes against humanity, Earth or God."'
Quote from Wikipedia's Kirk/Spock page: "...Spock as Star Trek was by that point one of the longest-lived and most prosperous subjects of slash fiction, while its mainstream popularity made it one of the most accessible titles for academics and their...." I laughed at the "longest-lived and most prosperous" bit.
The "old guy argues with young guy"meme. Old guy in panel 1 labeled "Former BBEG" says "My reason for reforming and taking the Oath of Redemption is just as good as any other." Angry young guy in panel 2 labeled "Paladin" says "No, your reason is supposed to be something sacred and meaningful." Older guy in panel 3 yells, "So what if I changed because I wanted to motorboat the arch bishop's huge honka-donka bazongas!" Panel 4: young guy throws a chair, says "You're not supposed to do that as a paladin, goddamn it!" Old guy in panel 5 points angrily and says, "Too bad! I want to be a good guy now because of them!"
Poster for the film Dr. No, with Sean Connery as James Bond.
A screen shot showing the original post on the left and links to the right of the post. One link says "5 invite codes available" and has three crudely drawn arrows pointing to it.
A large chubby orange cat lies on a red couch pillow, fast asleep. A few unwrapped Christmas presents are visible on the borders of the frame.
A translation web site takes "Wel dyma ni'n dwad//Gyfeillion diniwad//I ofyn am gennod i ganu//Os na chawn ni gennad//Rhowch wybod ar ganiad//Pa fodd mae'r 'madawiad,//nos heno" and produces "Well here we are dwarfs// Friends of innocence To//request a genmark to sing if//we don't get a mission//Report a canon How the//'departed tonight"
Title page of "Ducks: and, How To Make Them Pay." Above, text reads "Let me tell you I was bitterly disappointed that this book is, in fact, an instructional guide to the profitable husbandry of ducks as a craft. There is not one sliver of insight about holding ducks accountable for their crimes against humanity, Earth, or God."
Shows a post on X/Twitter by George Takei that begins, "We need to listen to Liz Cheney, who saw it all ha..." Underneath that, a button says "Subscribe to unlock."
"All these beliefs, from inheritance of acquired traits to telegony, must now be classed as superstitions. They do not stand up under experimental investigation and are incompatible with what is known about the mechanisms of heredity and about the remarkable and predictable properties of genetic materials. Nevertheless, some people still cling to these beliefs. Some animal breeders take telegony seriously and do not...."
God is not dead—He is merely unemployed... A response to Time magazine's cover story of 8 April 1966, which asked, "Is God Dead?" This, in turn, came fro Nietzsche's famous quote, "God is dead." It appears on page 96, the final panel in The Pogo Poop Book (1966). Walt Kelly
To all to whom these presents shall come, greetings. Be it known to all now that the poster known as Link, owing to their frequent demonstrations of mastery at the art, are hereby granted the title of Certified Shitposter and accorded all the rights, duties, and privileges thereunto appertaining.
"And now that the ardour of battle had passed away, the spirits of Merimna's people began to gloom a little, like their leader's, with their fatigue and with the cold of the morning, and they looked at the sword of Welleran in Rold's hand and said, 'Not any more, not any more for ever will Welleran return, for his sword is in the hand of another. Now we know indeed he is dead. O Welleran, thou wast our sun and moon and all our stars. Now is the sun fallen down and the moon broken, and all the stars are scattered as the diamonds of a necklace that is snapped off one who is slain by violence.'"
Mister Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Captain Kirk from the original Star Trek,
Grabber tool with four prongs