In January 2021 Hermione, conjectured by some to have been the oldest Avocado cat, passed away. She was twenty-one years old, which according to online cat age converters means she was the equivalent of somewhere between 86 and 138 human … Continue reading The Hermione Memorial Night Thread
25 is, like all natural numbers, interesting. Let’s look at a few facts about it. It is a square, with prime factorization 5×5. It is also the smallest square equal to the sum of two smaller squares (3²+4²=5²), leading to … Continue reading The Night Thread Examines 25
Star Battle is a puzzle that has consumed more of my recent hours than I would like to admit. Each puzzle consists of a square grid N units to a side, divided into N regions. In each row, column, and … Continue reading The Day Thread Solves Star Battle
“Comparative Religion” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, December 10, 2009 PLARN: Dear Tereglith, In our essays about the first eleven episodes of Community, we’ve both written at length about the evolution of the show, often tying it in with … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E12, “Comparative Religion”
Lego Santa Porg is the final gift in this year’s Lego Star Wars Advent calendar. Or at least I assume it’s the final one, because even though I haven’t gotten there yet, what could possibly top Lego Santa Porg? Look … Continue reading The Day Thread Has Been Visited By Lego Santa Porg
In 1987, A Muppet Family Christmas aired on ABC. The hour-long special concerns the entire Muppet Show cast visiting Fozzie’s mom for Christmas, whereupon they watch home movies of themselves as the Muppet Babies, are unexpectedly joined by the entire Sesame … Continue reading The Night Thread of A Muppet Family Christmas
Knives Out, a star-studded murder mystery written and directed by Rian Johnson, had special preview screenings in most markets the past two nights and will go wide on Wednesday 11/27. A film about a loathsome family gathering together against an … Continue reading Spoil Sports – Knives Out
“Debate 109” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, November 12, 2009. “Meta” became perhaps the most common descriptor of Community as its run went on; a google search for “Community NBC Meta” returns two and a half million results. But … Continue reading A Community Notification for This: S1E09 “Debate 109”
Earlier this year, I wrote a sci-fi short story called “A Gift from the Founder”, and since it’s my birthday and I’m feeling self-indulgent I’m taking the night thread to share it. I’d be flattered if anyone cared to read … Continue reading The Night Thread is a Gift from the Founder
As of today I’ve been alive for precisely 24 years. But it’s only the last couple that I have a vivid, daily record of. I took more pictures in 2019 than in entire rest of my life up to that … Continue reading The (Birth)Day Thread of Cell Phone Photography
It’s Life Day, folks: a day of peace, a day of harmony, a day of joy we all can share together joyously. As far as the Star Wars Holiday Special shows us, Life Day is mostly celebrated by watching kitschy … Continue reading R-3X DJs the Life Day Thread
“Introduction to Statistics” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 29, 2009. What makes someone fall in love with a show? What makes a television program not just something one enjoys, but a favorite thing, an object to be treasured? … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E07 “Introduction to Statistics”
Five years ago today, at 4 AM in a block called “Infomercials”, [adult swim] plunged a nation of insomniacs and stoners into the nightmare world of Too Many Cooks. Much like the Avocado’s own Dad’s Casa, TMC is a TGIF sitcom … Continue reading The Day Thread of “Too Many Cooks”
“Football, Feminism, and You” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 22, 2009 “Football, Feminism, and You” aired as episode 6 of season one, but its production code is 103 – it got shuffled off later into the schedule, presumably … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E06 “Football, Feminism, and You”
0-0-0 (or Triple Zero) is a protocol droid specializing in etiquette, customs, translation, and torture. Mostly torture. The Triple-Zero Protocol Personality Matrix was created, tested, and promptly quarantined as far too dangerous ever to place in a droid body centuries … Continue reading The 0-0-0 Night Thread
Every sufficiently quirky geographical region must be in want of a hirsute hominid to call its own. So it is that we hear of the Florida Skunk Ape. What distinguishes the Skunk Ape from its Pacific Northwestern and Himalayan brethren, … Continue reading The Night Thread of the Florida Skunk Ape
“Introduction to Film” originally aired on NBC Thursday night, October 1, 2009 “Introduction to Film” is an apt title for Community’s third installment in more ways than one. Like “Spanish 101” before it, it literally refers to a class being … Continue reading A Community Notification For This: S1E03 “Introduction to Film”
A single large block nestled into Port Orange’s suburbia contains a site called the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. As its current name suggests, it is home to a historical sugar mill ruin (one of many scattered around Florida), as well … Continue reading The Bongoland Night Thread
Sure, it’s another step in Disney’s quest for world domination, but did you see they got Alan Tudyk back as K-2SO? See all the announcements in one place here. Continue reading Disney+ Launch Announcement Discussion Thread
Now that Christmas is over and it’s almost time for Rudolph’s Shiny New Year, it’s time that we all took a trip into the DEEP LORE of the Rankin/Bass Special-verse, which teamed up its franchises in a feature-length epic decades before those … Continue reading The Day Thread of Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
In 2015, their final year of operation, I wrote for the Community Board Advent Calendar an elegy for the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. I present it now to you. “What?” my sister laughs. “Did he just say ‘that’s … Continue reading The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights Day Thread
