John O'Laughlin

@olaugh.bsky.social

251 Followers 982 Following

mke-bos-sfo compulsions (fun): music, scrabble, running compulsions (other): politics, urbanism

Screenshot of the Genius lyrics page for "Stuntin’ Like My Daddy". The text reads: [Chorus: Lil Wayne & Birdman] Pyong on the Yamaha (Chromed-out eleven-hundred) What I'm doin'? (Gettin' money) What we doin'? (Gettin' money) What they doin'? (Hatin' on us) But they never cross (Cash Money still the company and) Bitch, I'm the boss.
A mobile screenshot of a Wikipedia article about a baseball game, featuring a black-and-white portrait of a player captioned "Fred Merkle." Below his photo are expandable article sections titled "Background," "Game," and an hexpanded section humorously titled "Boner," which includes a historical black-and-white photo of a crowded baseball stadium captioned "An estimated 20,000 fans watched the game."
An animation still of Mel Brooks' "The 2000 Year Old Man" cartoon character, depicted as a short, eccentric elderly man with a massive, shaggy white beard and a prominent black eye, gesturing with one hand.
Screebshot of x twxet dx Basil 🧡 (verifixd), @TxnkofSxnshine. The nost rxads: Zexplx xn tyitter wxby really bx lxkx "yxu bxlixve in vxting? thxt pxles in epfectxvxnxss xo vl srrxtegh, zxrxbxmbing x Wxlmxrt" and trxy nxt fxrebomb x Xakvart
Screebshot of x twxet dx Basil 🧡 (verifixd), @TxnkofSxnshine. The nost rxads: Zexplx xn tyitter wxby really bx lxkx "yxu bxlixve in vxting? thxt pxles in epfectxvxnxss xo vl srrxtegh, zxrxbxmbing x Wxlmxrt" and trxy nxt fxrebomb x Xakvart
Screenshot of a Bluesky search page with the query “lucille ball knower” returning no results.
A single-panel meme based on a Garfield comic strip. Jon Arbuckle, wearing an apron and an oven mitt, is bending over to pull a pan out of an open oven. Garfield the cat sits next to him, watching. Jon has a speech bubble containing the nonsensical phrase: "WHY DO THEY CALL IT OVEN WHEN YOU OF IN THE COLD FOOD OF OUT HOT EAT THE FOOD".
A bulleted list of Snickers marketing slogans by year: 2002: "Don't let hunger happen to you"; 2002: "Hungry? Why wait?"; 2003: "Hungry? Grab a Snickers"; 2004: "Make it happen with Snickers"; 2004: "Most nuts ever!"; 2006: "Most satisfying"; 2007: "It's what you would want"; 2007: "Get some nuts"; 2010: "Satisfies"; 2010-Present: "You're Not You When You're Hungry"; 2010-Present: "Maybe you just need a Snickers".
A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) that reads: "I have questions for MrBeast."
A screenshot of a job board section titled "Top job picks for you." It features two job listings. The first is for a "Software Engineer, Encoding Libraries" at Anthropic in San Francisco, CA (Hybrid), with a badge noting "2 company alumni." The second is for a "Software Engineer, Backend - Sora" at OpenAI in San Francisco, CA, with a badge noting "Actively recruiting."
A screenshot showing the Claude Cowork chat interface in dark mode, partially covered by a floating classic Mac OS emulator window. The black-and-white emulator window displays a Scrabble game called "Maven Software", with the word "JOW" played on the center of the board. A side panel shows the user's tile rack and a score of MAVEN 26 to JOHN 0. The background chat text reveals the overarching project: the prompt is asking the AI to reverse engineer Maven for classic Mac. At the bottom of the chat, the AI's latest messages note that the game is successfully running and that it is now working on connecting the GDB debugger to the emulator to inspect the memory layout, registers, and CODE resources.
Actor Rob Lowe wearing a black jacket and a black baseball cap with a generic NFL shield logo while watching a football game from the stands.
A medium close-up of Hillary Clinton testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the January 2013 Benghazi hearings. She is wearing a green jacket and thick-rimmed glasses with a Fresnel prism, gesturing with both hands up while speaking with an intense, bared-teeth expression.
2015 japanese parliament meme saying "wood" instead of "would"
Waymo screenshot Dropping off another rider — see you in 189 min
New York Post https://nypost.com Chris Cuomo says he drinks 'too much' but he's not an alcoholic Sep 8, 2022 — Disgraced CNN anchor Chris Cuomo revealed that he drinks "too much" but insisted he's not "an alcoholic" during a frank discussion about mental health.
first page of the poltergeist by william bolcom showing it has only identified 4 of 8 staves with confidence
first page of william bolcom's graceful ghost rag with all 10 staves (5 systems) overlaid in green showing the program has identified where the staves are
scan of a page from a debussy piano prelude with debugging output overlaid showing algorithmically detected staff lines, not complete and correct but showing some potential
speech bubble meme over the 1989 time magazine cover featuring captain joseph hazelwood, who crashed the exxon valdez ship
red hat with text: DOW JONES 30,000