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

Dear tech industry:

Saying "x" isn't any faster than saying "times".

#ItWasTheBestOfXItWasTheWorstOfX #ThreeXALady #FastXAtRidgemontHigh #SignOTheX

OH: "Honest to God, I don't know how people think without whiteboards."

(I make an exception for my Hans & Franz bit in Theory of Computation about the Pumping *clap* Lemma.)

A day may come when my memes are older than my students...

2020: the gift that keeps on giving.

#EverythingChangedWhenTheFireNationAttacked
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RT @KATUNews
The National Weather Service in Portland issued a flash flood watch and are warning of the potential for flash flooding and debris flows in recently burned areas, including the Riverside, Beachie Creek, Lionshead, and Holiday Farm fires.

http://katu.com/news/local/flash-flood-watch-issued-in-recently-burned-areas-thunderstorms-possible
https://twitter.com/KATUNews/status/1306641937185660928

Tech, like any field, has a lot of necessary jargon. The additional tsunami of brand and product names, rapidly changing and often redundant, threatens to collapse the tower of Babel.

Denial-as-a-service.

So lucky to live in a world where gourmet food like this is available. It's like attending Fyre Festival in the comfort of my own home!

As some people predicted, posting this caused another thing to happen. Now @TheOneTAR just needs a supervolcano to win!
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RT @DrPeterDrake
2020 Bingo card.
https://twitter.com/DrPeterDrake/status/1306370570678726657

Oh, I'm not falling for that one. Plums are meant to be STOLEN from an ICEBOX.

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -John von Neumann

There are several more disasters scheduled for 2020, so this would be a good time to sign up for alerts:

https://www.publicalerts.org/

#NationalPreparednessMonth

2020 Bingo card.