Ryan Burns

@AADLeli @Toporspickles @thebrinery I asked ChatGPT for a pun about getting carried away and caraway seeds: "I was pickling vegetables and got so *caraway* with it that I forgot the cucumbers!"

@ryanburns @Toporspickles @thebrinery I think we could make it a more festive, formal occasion next time and call it the Pickle Ball. What could go wrong?

Tonight we had a Local Pickle Taste Test at the Downtown Library, and all the pickle connoisseurs of Ann Arbor turned out to judge! Here are the three winners out of the 8 varieties sampled: 1st: @Toporspickles Golden Dill 2nd: @thebrinery Dilly Dally 3rd: Topor’s Half Sour

@damnarbor @AADLeli How about E Huron River Service Drive, E Huron River Drive, Huron Parkway, W Huron River Drive, float back down the Huron River, Huron Street

@AADLeli I’ll allow it.

What’s the longest road in Ann Arbor? #a2Council.

Crazy conjunction of Venus and Jupiter right now in the west!

Yoon Canelé > Canelle Canelé

Usually if someone immigrates before the age of 13 they don’t have a detectable accent, but after 13, they often do. But a lot of people don’t know that for elves this age cutoff is 2000 years which is why Galadriel still has a Beleriand accent in the movies and Elrond doesn’t.

This week on #oceanselven, will Galadriel recruit a gymnast or a pick pocket?

@crewjam It’s because they know fish shell is better.

@ryanburns Also, how is the illustration not a clam of something?

Definitely the best thing I’ve seen in a little free library.

Rings of Power is taking some misty myths and turning it into a caper film. They should have called it Ocean’s Elven.

@SPBPHD Maybe it’s a message in a bottle

I see a lot of things on the streets of Ann Arbor, especially around Central Campus at UMichigan. But nothing prepared me for the bag of Newman’s Own salad dressing in the gutter on N. University off Thayer 🥴

They should reboot House staring Viggo Mortenson, and at the climax of every episode, House says “Have you athelas?”

@w8emv Well that fits his priors I guess. Although twoish circumnavigations is still a fair distance!

@ryanburns I think it's "distance travelled" rather than "depth"

Wait; 20,000 leagues is 60,000 miles!

Clearly Jules’ publicist thought “Two Leagues Under the Sea” wasn’t punchy enough.

SUMMER GAME IS ON! Come visit me in my office at the Downtown Library this summer to discover the treasures therein, particularly the 2000-POINT GAME CODE that adorns this mysterious playable artifact!

@willmcgugan Are they doing an awkward mouse dance for cut and paste.

I'm planning some market research for Textualize. Trying to figure out who uses the terminal and for what. Will publish the final data on a GitHub repos. Can anyone suggest some interesting data I could gather regarding the terminal and the people who use it?

Overjoyed & grateful to be the next director of the incredible @aadl. This account shall henceforth be known as @AADLeli and will enthuse about everything @aadl does! Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen, especially @josiebparker, our trustees, & our amazing staff.❤️

@billybakkus I’d also take a walking path across Leslie park golf course.

How about a couple of bike paths across the University of Michigan golf course in south-central Ann Arbor? Say, one from Stimson across to Pioneer High School's back road at Main Street, and another from about Crisler down to Busch's at Valhalla? #annarbor #modestproposals