"Meet me in 10 Forward." Here in Oberlin East, graduation day yesterday was replete with unintentionally funny-looking costumes, along with the usual virtue-signaling accessories. The weed shop next door reported that their business was down for the day; "Kids are...
After four years of rigorous college (YOU try finishing a chemistry and physics double major), I then spent six years in graduate school, then another two years as a post-doc. Twelve years of higher education. And my career arc has led me to the pinnacle- I now spend...
Everyone is going to restaurants on one of the two very worst days to go to a restaurant (the other being Valentine's Day) Kitchens are slammed, lines are long, the food is rubberized from sitting under heat lamps. Coincidentally these are both Hallmark holidays....
Today we celebrate Artaxerxes, alcohol, naked woman, and Links.
Your people have your holidays, (((we))) have (((ours))). And I’m getting ready, but not neglecting…Links.
I managed to make yesterday more exciting than planned. But not more exciting than Links.
My students wanted to know if I'd cancel classes on Pi Day. I told them that would be irrational. I did expect them to arrange their desks in a circle, but that backfired when the students behind me started making funny noises, as in "fart under the arm" noises. I...
I’m back and so is my pile of work. But there’s Links for consolation.
Back from New Orleans with traces of my liver intact. And Links.
The Old Man and Tomb Raider head off today. But not before Links.
The students have poured out of here in droves. leaving me to do Links on my own.
I have managed to reduce my teaching load the old fashioned way. And before you vanish, here’s Links.
What a mess! So let’s get distracted with Links.
Perhaps it’s better for everyone that Spud is only here 4 times a year. Better for my liver, at least. Anyhoo, Links.
Tomb Raider is off to a dance festival, so I actually have a weekend to get work done. And drop some Links.
So the Taylor Swift show is on tonight, but unfortunately will be sporadically interrupted by some football game. Spud is in town, so WebDom, l0b0T, Tomb Raider, and I will be gathered over at his place to see if we can consume sufficient intoxicants to blot out the...
Non-academic business brought me down to Pittsburgh whence I limn this ode to the stupidity of the world. If Lamar Jackson hadn't done an epic choke two weeks ago, I'd be trolling the populace with my Ravens sweatshirt. Alas, that opportunity vanished. But I did...
Rumors of my disappearance are greatly exagg.. oh, wait, they’re not.
We're between snowstorms and the temperatures have been hovering just above freezing. So of course, the trails are pure muck, my back yard is a marsh, and Dog is rolling in it, then coming back in the house and jumping on the furniture. Oh, and besides the numerous...
It seems like we’ve been here before…
Yes, the mercury is actually freezing. But Links are just cool.
Those poor kids don’t know what hit them. But you know that you’re getting hit by… Links.
Here I am, staring at my navel, asking questions. The first being, “What’s in the news today?”
Those poor kids. Those poor, poor kids. And they don’t even have to read Links.
Well we did manage to get out a bit before the storm, but now we’re just hunkered down and tossing out Links.