Jen Whyte 🍁

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Thinker about old stuff at Duke University. I have a website and this is a link to it: https://www.jenniferlwhyte.com/

A screenshot of the wikipedia page 'Towel Power', that reads: "The tradition started in the 1982 Campbell Conference Finals when Vancouver played the Chicago Blackhawks. During game two of the series, head coach Roger Neilson waved a white towel on the end of a hockey stick in a mock surrender after being upset with the officiating. Neilson was ejected and the Canucks lost 4–1."
The sign for now-official Vancouver park, 'Dude Chilling Park'
Dubrovnik at dawn
The SEP search results for the name 'William Kingdon Clifford'. There is no page on William Kingdon Clifford. Instead, the top result is William James
The pokemon Popplio
A colourful backpack with a very broken zipper
The cover of the Queen album 'The Miracle', which features an unholy amalgamation of four men with five eyes between them
A photograph (photo credit: Philip Cheung for the New York Times) in which Anora director Sean Baker is flanked by a very odd distorted woman-creature to his right
A really cool picture from the top of the Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver
Stormy skies and water over the flagpole of Lonsdale Quay, Vancouver skyline in the background
I see your renormalization group and raise you my further-enweirdening posse
A tweet by me that reads: Shakespeare comedies ranked by how good it is if your pilot says their titles: Good: As you like it All's well that ends well Ok: Much ado about nothing The Winters Tale Measure for Measure Bad: Twelfth Night A Comedy of Errors The Tempest
A tweet from yours truly that reads 'Ms. Frizzle never had to worry about her students not understanding the course requirements because they all knew that everything was on the silly bus'
A tweet by yours truly that reads 'My favourite hockey penalty is Too Many Men on the Ice because it just sounds like a review left by someone who doesn't like hockey'
A really cool (if gamer-coloured) network graph of what looks like a really complicated D&D campaign. The red nodes are PCs, blue are locations, yellow are NPCs from one faction, et cetera
A cast iron dragon bell, on my wall.
A large number of small philodendrons to be beheld.
A photograph of a page of J.S. Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, in which is underlined 'Take any familiar object, such as an orange. It is yellow'
The arm of the author, bearing a tattoo of the Small Stellated Dodecahedron
A screenshot from an 18th century biography of a natural philosopher and doctor, describing his youthful education at a 'feminary'
Oppo.jpg. A black and white image of Oppenheimer looking over Einstein's shoulder, seemingly pleased with what he sees there
An illustration of a witch working on a 90s beige computer. Her cat is playing with the computer mouse.