Stuart Marks

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Java/JDK/OpenJDK developer, Oracle Corporation. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. Mostly on @stuartmarks@mastodon.social ; formerly @stuartmarks on Twitter.

John Cleese dressed as a medieval soldier in armor, atop the French castle, taunting King Arthur (offscreen) in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Interior of The Sphere, Las Vegas. Stage is at lower left, obscured by brilliant lights. We are looking horizontally across the audience seating area, which slopes steeply upward to the right. The ceiling is apparently composed of masonry tiles, in the lower sections, with coffered panels higher up toward the apex. The very top appears open to the evening sky, like the oculus of the Roman Pantheon. However, this is all a digital image. The entire interior of The Sphere is a digital display. The image shown on it gives the appearance of being inside the Pantheon in Rome.
Ron Pressler sitting at a table facing the camera, while removing a block from a “Jenga” tower.
Promotional graphic illustration for the JavaOne conference. Text shows "5 more days! Register now for JavaOne. March 18-20. Oracle Conference Center. Redwood Shores, CA." Artwork includes a stylized Java coffee cup logo, a waving Duke, a code snippet reading «println("welcome");», and a pressed penny image with an illustration of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Screenshot of a tweet (on x.com) from Chuck Grassley on Oct 25, 2012. The tweet’s text is “Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead”
The Gandalf character from Lord of the Rings, with a caption above reading “This shall not pass!!” This is a reference to Elon Musk’s attempts to influence the U.S. Congress not to pass the continuing budget resolution.
A long sausage-like piece of some kind of meat, spiraled around in a plastic tray and wrapped in plastic film. A label reads “beef bull penis — Ngau bim”; 2.12 pounds, $11.99 per pound, total $25.42. Dai Thanh supermarket, San Jose California.
Screenshot of a post by “Darth Putin”, reposted by Toomas Hendrik Ilves. Darth Putin’s post says, ‘Day 1025 of my 3 day war. They are not "meat wave assaults". I am providing more targets than Ukraine has ammunition. I remain a master strategist.’
Chicken and vegetables in a curry sauce, over rice in a medium sized noodle bowl, garnished with chopped green onions and red fukujinzuke — sweet and tart pickled daikon radish.