Linh Pham

@linh.social

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Wait Wait Stats Person, SW Release Engineer, GenAI Pessimist #StarTrek #DoctorWho #Python #TBTLTen #Fedora #NoBridge https://stats.wwdt.me | https://linhpham.org Pronouns: he/they Mastodon: https://linh.social/@qlp

Work-in-progress image gallery that displays the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! playing cards and their information.
Three Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me playing cards with Paula Poundstone as the King of Spades, Carl Kasell as Ace of Clubs, and Peter Sagal as the Jack of Clubs
NPR.org website rendered in dark mode with darker shade of gray for the card body and header, with a medium gray page background, and a lighter gray main navigation bar
A memo book-sized copy of "The Founding Documents" with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. The book has a navy blue cover and includes an introduction by Peter Sagal.
Spreadsheet containing all of the charging sessions from the 2 months of ownership of a 2026 Subaru Trailseeker. Data includes charging start and stop times, energy delivered from a charger to the vehicle, energy delivered to the batteries, efficiency numbers, charge durations and cost.
Two light blue Waymo autonomous vehicles with charge ports open in the front and various sensors each plugged into Electrify America chargers
Linda Ronstadt, wearing a blue and white striped top with an open black jacket, singing into a microphone in front of a drum kit in the music video for "Hurts So Bad".
Portion of Cammy's stage background from the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo port of Super Street Fighter II showing portion of a castle or fortress that have two angel-like statues or gorgoyles. The sky includes the Northern Lights.
Box of a Lego set containing 220 pieces with three lotus flowers (two that are open in white and pink, and one that hasn't opened in pink)
System information provided by the About panel in GNOME settings for a Framework Laptop 16 running Fedora 44 and GNOME 50.
Rear three-quarter view of a Daybreak Blue Subaru Trailseeker EV parked in a dealer parking lot
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me stage set up with two lecterns for Bill Kurtis and guest host Tom Papa. Panel table on the right with names for Shantira, Katie and Josh.
Search results from Hey Gurgle, the search engine for Marsupial Gurgle, for the phrase "i leak when".
Person with light cables hanging in front of their head while they are saying "They are no one." Still taken from Doctor Who episode "Bad Wolf".
Bluesky notification where Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆(@chiitan.love) liked a post with the text: Gay male rifters and influencers turning against trans folks and pumping out anti-trans bullshit. #Grifters #Influencers #Transphobia
Reddit post from the r/WaitWait subreddit from u/srmcmahon titled "for Peter Sagal". Post text follows: I have no idea how to do it but I want to tell Peter I LOVE the way he says "THIS is NPR" after the show. It's so . . . triumphant. I anyone knows him, please tell him for me.
Screenshot that includes a photo of an IKEA plush orangutan called a Djungelskog and a timestamp of August 4, 2025 when the original photo was taken.
A rendering of a bag of Birds Eye Cauliflower Wings, Buffalo Style with a sauce pouch inside.
A white bear-like creature with red wings spread out like a bat, facing the camera while leaning their arm on an upright sword.
Parallel Earth Jackie Tyler wearing Cybus EarPods that have been activated and transitioned into a device that is similar to the square frame found on the heads of Cybermens.
Spreadsheet with collect data for over 35 different EVs currently or soon to be on sale with information about the vehicle's dimensions, battery size, EPA estimated range, efficiency numbers and starting price for a given trim level
Two sets of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me playing cards with Carl Kasell as the ace of hearts and Peter Sagal as the jack of clubs
Heatmap that represents all of the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! shows that recorded in Chicago, outside of Chicago, and from home/remote studios. Circled are two interesting sets of data points, one that looks like a pixelated question mark and one that looks like a pixelated exclamation mark.
Cover of the TBTL Grestest Hits album with pencil drawing of Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh
A composited image with a partially broken in door from the movie "The Shining" with the face of the Andrew Walsh TBTL doll peering through the opening instead of the original Jack Torrance.
System information for a Framework Laptop 16 running Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Desktop Edition
Framework Laptop 16 with a purple PETG single piece trackpad and wrist rest. On the screen is a geometric wallpaper.
Five windmills poking up from just behind a hill
Website analytics for the Wait Wait Stats Page with a chart of the number of visitors and views for the past week. Most days are around 100-200 views, but there was a spike up to around 400 views on Thursday.
Side view of an HP xw4200 tower workstation showing the power supply in the top left, motherboard with processor and heatsink below, and the 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch drive bays (with the two 3.5-inch drive bay openings facing the camera rather than the front of the case).
Quick notes for the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment for the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me show that aired on June 30, 2007 written on the back of an OPB member's primetime mailer. The panelists were Amy Dickinson, Adam Felber and Roy Blount, Jr.
Notepad with a list of regular Wait Wait Don't Tell Me shows for all of 2006 and January 2007 along with a list of each show's segments.
Early proof of concept for a potential Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! panelist stats card in the style of a baseball card with filler text at the top and bottom used to represent notes and bio. Panelist name placeholder is below the top filler text and a table of potential statistics is below the placeholder.
Screen capture of a Craft Computing video where Jeff, the host, is on the right speaking to the camera with a 2U rackmount server on a box to his left. On the server is a beige cat laying on its side on the server, feet towards the left side of the frame, and facing the camera looking content.
Two flow diagrams. The top one is for a traditional Assembly Line with items that flow in a linear fashion from start to finish, without any branches or merges. The bottom one is captioned "Ford Universal EV Production System" where two branches (one on top and one on the bottom, the top one is slightly shorter in length and later in the timeline) merge into a main trunk. The design of the bottom one also resembles the logo for USB or Universal Serial Bus.
Green alien monster called an Abzorbaloff in which it has absorbed multiple people with their faces sticking out of the alien's torso. The alien as their hands out and one holding a cane
Tom Bodett's Panelist Details page from the Wait Wait Stats Page showing his appearances, scoring data, rankings, Bluff the Listener stats, and badges with links to his other appearances as a Not My Job guest, guest host and guest scorekeeper
Brown orangutan plush from IKEA (DJUNGELSKOG) sitting on a chair with blue cloth upholstery
Google Maps location details for a playground in Merlischachen, Switzerland that has been named, in English, "Ben Doyle's Playground" with a local guide note saying: Decided to take a pilgrimage to this place, i was in nearby Lucern but i had time to kill, so i decided to chill at this spot for 9 hours and 36min. There was another weird American man hanging around nearby, but i avoided him.
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me recording details for the Studebaker Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, including a listing of all regular, best of and repeat shows.
Two spreadsheets open on the left side of the screen: top spreadsheet has a list of Best Of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me episodes that only have "Multiple Panelists" entered in as the sole panelist; bottom spreadsheet has a list of segements from a Best Of show with panelists listed out for each segment. File manager window and VLC media player on the right side of the screen with audio from the December 25, 2004 Best Of show selected and opened.
Spreadsheet with a listing of information for 13 Best Of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me shows where I have a multiple panelist placeholder entered in rather than the actual list of panelists. The listing includes the Stats Database show ID number, show date, Best Of flag, original show ID number and original show date for repeat shows, and the multiple panelist placeholder
List of registered domains with CrankyAndy.com and CrankyYandy.com
Final Fantasy IV battle with Kain, Rosa, Cecil, Rydia and Edge against an evil, wooden trapdoor in a cave. Cecil is in the middle of casting a spell.
Dark room with a wide crack in a wall with light coming through from the other side and a silhouette of a person on the left side
Three members of the musical group Kuinka, with the lead singer in the middle and a guitarist to the left giving a middle finger to another member of the group
Database query results when searching for Wait Wait Don't Tell Me shows in which Luke Burbank was on the panel on shows that aired in the month of May and are not Best Of or repeat shows.
KDE Plasma application launcher with various applications marked as favorites, including Firefox, Thunderbird, and the KDE Dolphin file manager (version 24.12) on a computer running Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42.
A Dalek wearing military garb, painted matte gren, and with a British flag under the eye stalk, looking up to Amy Pond (to the left, outside of the cropped screenshot) with its two "ears" lit up.
Cover of a Field Notes memo book with Wait Wait Don't Tell Me notes from May 25, 2024 through April 19, 2025
Full screen capture of Fedora Asahi Remix with KDE Plasma running on an M1 Max MacBook Pro. Konsole terminal window on the left is showing system information from the fastfetch program. KDE Systems Settings About pane showing system information is to the right.
Artwork posted on a wood telephone pole with a black and white imprint of the head and upper torso of Bill Nye the Science Guy and the words "The End Is" above him. The canvas has splotches of colors.
The Master, portrayed by Eric Roberts, staring at the camera with green slitted eyes
Home Page for the development version of the "Hey Gurgle" Marsupial Gurgle Audio Archive Search Engine
Two windows side-by-side. Left window is a web browser with an audio clip searching web app running locally and showing results. Right window is Visual Studio Code displaying code for the web app in debug mode.
Capture of a proof-of-concept for an audio clip archive search results page with the title "Hey Gurgle" and a search field at the top of the screen and three mocked up search results. Page is viewed in light mode.
Capture of a proof-of-concept for an audio clip archive search results page with the title "Hey Gurgle" and a search field at the top of the screen and three mocked up search results.
Capture of a proof-of-concept for an audio clip archive search page with the title "Hey Gurgle!" with the body text: Use the following form to search audio clips that have been uploaded to Marsupial Gurgle There is a text field to enter in search terms, and an enabled Search button and a disabled Power Out! button below the text field
World of Balance map from the Super Famicom game, "Final Fantasy VI"
Two of Shran's blue antennae displayed on the view screen appearing to come out from Captain Archer's head (who is facing away from the camera and towards the viewscreen)