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Here’s to you, person who added these lyrics to the Star Wars soundtrack in Apple Music. Well done.

🧀🍰 Yeah, pretty pleased with that effort.

Visited Castlewood State Park. A bit rainy and my legs are tired, but well worth the 3.5+ mile hike.

Made a cheesecake. Can’t eat it until tomorrow though. 🙁

🔥🍕 My hat is off to anyone who decides they want a Hot Pocket with enough foresight to preheat an oven, cook it for 28(!) minutes and wait for it to cool.

A Hot Pocket wrapper with instructions for cooking in a conventional oven.

I had not come across this acronym before.

Text of a book describing the acronym “WEIRD”, meaning Western, Educated and from Industrialized Rich Democracies.

from The Data Detective by Tim Harford 📚

🐈 Tonight I got to pet a cat.

A white cat is sleeping on a leather sofa.

🪓🪵 A couple more stacks. I took some rough measurements and if I have my math right I think this is maybe about half a cord or so.

In my experience, data nerds often do have a sense of humor.

from The Data Detective by Tim Harford 📚

Currently reading: The Data Detective by Tim Harford 📚

An image of text on a page. Text reads: “This statistical cynicism is not just a shame--it's a tragedy. If we give
in to a sense that we no longer have the power to figure out what's true, then we've abandoned a vital tool. It's a tool that showed us that cigarettes are deadly. It's our only real chance of finding a way through the coronavirus crisis--or, more broadly, understanding the complex world in which we live. But the tool is useless if we lapse into a reflexive dismissal of any unwelcome statistical claim. Of course, we shouldn't be credulous--but the antidote to credulity isn't to believe nothing, but to have the confidence to assess information with curiosity and a healthy skepticism.”