Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@2ck It's not about extravagance. It's about weird food. It's an area where I'm exceedingly unadventurous.

@stux ... and that's just the water for the dog to drink!

@2ck Food is a Boolean to me and fancy food is false. It's utterly unappealing.

Absolutely. This is why I vote for Democrats. They're not perfect, but collectively they pull in a direction that is within 90 degrees of good. Every single Republican senator voted against doing anything to save the planet.

Her: I like your brain.
Him: What's so great about my brain?
Her: Well, it's got all those ridgy parts!

@baykanguru @amber

Ed, man! !man ed

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

(Note that this joke is from 1991.)

@trinsec Exactly.

Even ignoring price, I would absolutely rather eat a grocery store pizza than go to a Michelin starred restaurant.

Aw, man! I was gonna use those 1.59 ms to plan my classes.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115541992/the-earth-is-spinning-faster-than-ever-and-its-making-our-days-shorter

#academia #teaching #EarthRotation #time

After getting responses from several sources, I'm leaning toward just grabbing a box of colored cards like the one below and having the students write A/B/C/D on them with sharpies (which also dodges the colorblindness issue).

https://www.staples.com/Pacon-74170-2-x-3-Flash-Card-Dispenser-Box/product_485711

@2ck Yeah, that can also be done with web services like PollEverywhere.

The clickers are needlessly expensive and even the website is another layer of technology I'm hoping to avoid.

@khird Not a bad idea at all -- I was starting to consider that already.

The ColorADD version is neat, but appears to be currently unavailable. It looks like it just adds a symbol to each color. If a colorblind students gets a blue 1, a red 2, a green 3, and a yellow 4, that could work just as well.

Many #teaching techniques (e.g., Mazur's Peer Instruction) suggest asking a (well-designed) #MultipleChoice question of the class and having them hold up #cards marked A/B/C/D.

... so you'd think someone would be manufacturing such cards. After *several minutes* of searching, pretty much all I can find are PDF templates to print out and cut apart with scissors.

Closest thing so far:

https://cardsfortheculture.com/products/fact-based-a-b-c-d-response-cards

There has to be a way to do this more cheaply. Also, having each letter a different color would make it easier to read the room.

Driving around to stores searching for products is an infeasible waste of time and carbon, but I can certainly spare a few extra clicks to order things directly from the manufacturer rather than buying from Amazon.

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@khird @freemo DINGDINGDING! It's the WinCo house brand of Omreprazole (aka Prilosec).

@molly0xfff My MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) supports two monitors, but (confusingly) only if you plug them into different USB-C ports; I've never been able to get a dock to work.

I've also had problems where whether a peripheral (e.g., a keyboard) works depends on which of the identical-looking ports it's plugged into.

The "Apple makes really solid hardware" argument keeps getting weaker. I'm strongly thinking of going Linux next time.

@freemo Interesting indeed! Hint: this is over-the-counter.