It's always worth remembering how academia's reliance on Google Scholar is totally unsustainable, since Google doesn't make a dime on the product and (as such) it's maintained by like two and a half engineers on nights and weekends
Group leader: What are you anxious about Me: [thinking about how I can’t get my dwarves to transport the corpses of the giant badgers they killed so they get butchered in Dwarf Fortress] um my children’s future, nuclear war and stuff
Copyediting rulebooks and hitting semantic satiation warrants a break. Words are weird.
Tech comm and team rhetoric folks, if you're starting to think syllabus prep for the fall (I KNOW I KNOW I'M JUST THE MESSENGER), you might find this useful: a organized collection of all the open access TC textbooks and resources I could find, including broken down by topic
<p>The field of Technical and Professional Communication has a number of fantastic online open access educational resources. This book collects links to them in one place so you can easily find and co...
Luthier, the newest Paverson board game that I wrote the rulebooks for, just launched on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pav... If you like classical music and/or medium-heavy euro games, check it out!
Craft instruments for patrons such as Mozart, in the golden age of music, using a unique blend of hidden bidding & worker placement
In any conversation with someone who says the civil war was not about slavery, the longer the conversation lasts the probability of that person defending slavery approaches 1
AI companies have commodified the shadows on the cave wall and are selling them back to the cave's inhabitants as a device that lets them behold the true world
May we all aspire to be such a shining and positive influence in the lives of our students and colleagues before it’s time for us to pass. I can’t think of a better way to spend our short time here. Sending my love to you as we grieve.
If half of us were to look on this moment as an opportunity to commit to being half a BHD, our little corner of academia would be an unstoppable force for good and kindness in the world. It's amazing how much one person did, and the size of the hole left by his passing.