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Pineta


Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist

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  • 6 weeks
    End of the Universe

    I am working to finish Infinite Imponability Drive as soon as I can. Unfortunately the last two weeks have been so crazy that it’s been hard to set aside more than a few hours to do any writing…

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  • 9 weeks
    Imponable Update

    Work on Infinite Imponability Drive continues. I aim to get another chapter up by next weekend. Thank you to everyone who left comments. Sorry I have not been very responsive. I got sidetracked for the last two weeks preparing a talk for the ATOM society on Particle Detectors for the LHC and Beyond, which took rather more of my time than I

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  • 10 weeks
    Imponable Interlude

    Everything is beautiful now that we have our first rainbow of the season.

    What is life? Is it nothing more than the endless search for a cutie mark? And what is a cutie mark but a constant reminder that we're all only one bugbear attack away from oblivion?

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  • 12 weeks
    Quantum Decoherence

    Happy end-of-2023 everyone.

    I just posted a new story.

    EInfinite Imponability Drive
    In an infinitely improbable set of events, Twilight Sparkle, Sunny Starscout, and other ponies of all generations meet at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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    This is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.

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  • 15 weeks
    Secrets of Auroras

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Dec
20th
2017

"You give them a brohoof emoji back, and you can mobilize an entire community to become advocates of your brand,” · 12:52pm Dec 20th, 2017

Here's a cute article from The Atlantic about customer service:

The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets,

which contains this nice account of how to do it, and one of the more interesting attempts by a journalist to clarify our fandom to the baffled general reader:

Sometimes, the customer-support people develop friendly relationships with customers or even whole  communities. “We’ve had people send us cookies, personalized M&Ms, even a custom-designed My Little Pony,” Johnston said.

“What?” I asked.

“Somewhere along the way, we befriended the entire brony community,” he explained, as much as something like a community of adults who are (un)ironically into the children’s show My Little Pony can be explained. Apparently, a JetBlue customer sent the main account a “brohoof” emoji, a sort of fist bump of the male fan community. And JetBlue sent one back.

"You give them a brohoof emoji back, and you can mobilize an entire community to become advocates of your brand,” Johnston joked. Someone sent “a sculpie My Little Pony with a custom blue potato-chip cutie mark.” (Cutie marks are little tattoo-like things that the ponies on My Little Pony have on their haunches. They identify something special about the charac—I’ve already said too much.)

(The story referred to has been covered by Equestria Daily)

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Comments ( 5 )

Ha! Nice.

But how does a blue potato chip relate to JetBlue ?
Is their logo a frisbee potato chip ?

(Cutie marks are little tattoo-like things that the ponies on My Little Pony have on their haunches. They identify something special about the charac—I’ve already said too much.)

The moment you've turned to parenthetical footnotes for reasons beyond stylized vocalization, you have automatically said too much.

Oh cool.

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Cause they have blue potatoes on board. That's, like, their thing.

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Yes, according to EqD: It's a reference to a blue potato chip snack served on jetBlue flights. I was also puzzled, having never flown with JetBlue, but a bit of Googling gives some more interesting stories, such as: JetBlue is Growing Potatoes

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Indeed such parentheses are best avoided (unless you really want to, and when writing equations and code (which is why C++ is so much more readable than python.))

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