I would legitimately love to share the recording because a long-time colleague, who is known for being so nice and kind and modest and self-deprecating, really just went for their jugulars and it was beautiful.
Okay technically he isn't, but could be: the problem with being really good at chess and living in Atlantic Canada is that there aren't enough qualifying events. Regardless, Intermezzo is for me.
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney was written for me specifically, because like Peter, I am a person with a brother who is a FIDE master (chess).
Oh yes, had one of those who kept interrupting me to say wrong things about the library’s catalogue. Who’s the one with admin control of the catalogue here, bud?
One of the rarely mentioned side effects of Faculty having to become experts in much more than their discipline to function in the academy now is that Faculty believe they are *experts* in much more than their discipline.
One of my jokes about Twitter was that Twitter was the only place where it was normal to be furiously angry at the mayor of a city you don’t live in or even have ever been to. I’m glad Bluesky has taken that mantle up.
"There is nowhere to park" 10 min walk maps image 1 centred on Metro Park Image 2 the centre of The Big Dartmouth Mall
After the 1st year of zero fare transit Albuquerque found it cheaper than enforcing fares. Unlike our experiments w UBI and guaranteed housing people actually learned from this lesson. The busses are still beautifully free!
For those of you who may not know, the US (mainly southeast) restaurant chain Waffle House has such detailed contingency plans in case of disaster that our disaster management agency literally uses something called the "Waffle House Index" to know how aggressively to mobilize in an area.
My day is bananas so I'm sneaking reads of the news between meetings and good golly miss molly this is wild www.science.org/content/arti...
