Is there a milk-suckling reptile/amphibian (giant lizard, toad, etc.) in your native folklore?

@clacke @Stoori the pope’s (the Latin American kind)

@Stoori pronouncing the cel in Excel as in Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Be really really worried when Slavoj Žižek is calling for nothing but common sense.

@carcinopithecus see also, “the beatings will continue until morale improves”

My proudest moment in academia was when I gave a (crappy) talk about some computer stuff and concluded with the suggestion that the less computing we do the better it be. Avoid unnecessary computation. Don’t do it if a task can be done without computing. Cut necessary computing to minimum.

It was deservedly badly received. And I liked that.

What is your favourite fictional* book?

* Not as in “a work of fiction”, but “a book whose existence is a fiction”

I finally caught a fairly good glimpse of the kingfisher!! #birb