Ersatz Cliff

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BILL SIMMONS: Pete Carroll's coaching in Super Bowl L was as bad as that episode of season 3 of Entourage where—[Simmons suddenly transforms into Bill Kurtis; the ESPN studio is speechless]—Actually, Carroll's performance was more akin to that warm night in the sleepy town of Rosebud, Texas, where the humid air's stillness was disturbed by the nightmarish serial killer "Pickaxe Pete"...
Cross section of a nuclear waste barrel
Vanity plate for Perl, the regex-first Swiss Army chainsaw of scripting languages
Me
Baby applying bucket to his head
Man holding a 1993 Fisher Price camera
Too much of a philistine to know the name of the painting, sorry
Reddit post about Civilization: Call to Power
Toddler reading a book with ghosts
Barney Rubble looking good with a new makeover
"Bob Dylan winning a Nobel? This is the most bogus election of an overrated Baby Boomer yutz since the 1960 West Virginia Democratic primar--" (Maureen Dowd, leather-clad assassin for the anti-millennial hit squad the Black Slowhand, silences my open mic night set with a well-placed sniper's bullet through my temple)
Reddit r/nba post Rewatching Game 7 of the 2016 Finals is crazy. There is no flailing, head snapping, falling down after every shot, jumping sideways, etc. They're playing actually basketball down the stretch I can only today. On LeBron's block Iggy would probably kick his legs out backward and end up in the front row now Silver has ruined this great game
Two guys (man and baby wearing a lion sleeper)
Leon from Blade Runner interviewing for a job at GameStop
Crude doodle of Bart Simpson chained to a rock like Prometheus
"How am I being confrontational if I have no idea who you are and am just trying to save StackOverflow?" - by framing your proposal and actions as part of an effort "to save Stack Overflow", you are inherently being confrontational. You are confronting those who disagree with the premises of your proposal, by suggesting that they are obstructing your noble cause, or even themselves adversaries. It's frankly a little disturbing to me that this needs to be pointed out.
Pensive baby in a Woody (Toy Story) outfit
Crude drawing of a Puritan embarking on an errand into the wilderness
Midcentury modern smoking man feeding a very important program into a mainframe
📈 White House Ballroom Construction Based on your interests
Baby playing with toy rotary phone
middle-aged man in sweater
guy in red fleece + smiling baby
Happy baby wearing an outfit that resembles an Edwardian bathing suit
Smiling baby in owl fleece
I HAVE A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT BUT I NEED CASH NOW
Phil Stewart @phildstewart 2h SCOOP!!! Trump administration considering deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East as the military prepares options for the possible next phase of the Iran war. One option for securing the Strait of Hormuz includes deploying troops to Iranian shores. w/@idreesali114
R studio output
Legendary center Paul Mokeski
Man listlessly bowling
One thing I don’t understand as a simple, homespun, country, geopolitics-ignorant enterprise software engineer is why Europe is in such a sad, servile state of vassalage to the U.S. (to a far greater extent than in the “Coalition of the Willing” era) when it’s blindingly obvious we’re going to sell the entire continent off to Russia within the next five years anyway
A sign for GHORN STEAKHOUSE
Baby smiling with dimples
YouTube video: The Price Is Right | 10/15/1987 (Bob’s first day with Gray Hair)
C program that prints x (undefined int, so arbitrary) and x to the power of x (compilers typically compute this as 0)
Poster of Theodore Rex, a movie Whoopi Goldberg was legally forced to be in
Met, the helmet guy from Mega Man
Baby wondering if it’s real cashmere
Baby finger painting with purple
"Look on the bright side: open concept living!" quipped one of the Property Bros. as they were both force-marched by Pepe Gamerist storm troopers through the wide, scorched expanse of the 150°F Manitoba desert.—Opening line of my self-published post-apocalyptic dystopian novel, "2023"
Don Giovanni (1979) - dir. Joseph Losey
Poster for Heartbeeps (1981), starring Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters
Baby with existential ennui
Guy in front of giant inflatable of Totoro
seated baby with auburn hair
Butter chicken unceremoniously sitting on a plate
Redditor asking “what’s something women find impressive but men think they don’t?”
Tired man and newborn baby in hospital
Man and baby (not sure which is which)
PHPStan error output
Unbelievably nerdy billboard ad: 10^18 (“exa-,” as in, “exabyte,” which is 1 million TB) > 100^10 (“googolplex,” i.e. Google) to advertise something called exa dot ai
Baby with heart sleeper
Baby in comfy office chair
Redditor raving about the minimalistic look and feel of the new UI
Slimer emerging from the Goop Lab
Smiling baby with giant cheeks
Baby giving the side-eye
Wah-Wah poster (2005). “An extraordinary portrait of the last shining hours of the British Empire”