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

@worldsendless Sure, Common Lisp isn't as purely functional as something like Haskell, but programming languages textbooks pretty much universally classify the Lisp family as functional.

With old-fashioned plurality voting, Peltola still would have won, but we'd have to wonder who those Begich voters liked as their second choice (and worried about him "spoiling" the race). Now we know.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/08/31/ranked-choice-totals-alaska-peltola/

#uspol #alaska #RankedChoiceVoting #InstantRunoff

Thinking of replacing my backpack with either something sleek and suede designed in San Francisco or something tactical AF covered in MOLLE webbing.

@apLundell @jalefkowit ... or the car rental company.

There are several ways to add someone (e.g., a teaching assistant) to a class email list. All but one of them have no effect -- they just silently fail.

(One of them is even worse: it temporarily adds the person, but later this is overwritten by an overnight process that syncs the list up with the official class roster.)

#uxfail #academia

Maybe it's unreasonable for me to wear a tie in this 90+F weather, but one of the other faculty members is going FULL TWEED.

@hq1

Trello for tasks

Google Docs for notes I might refer back to more than a day later

Paper notebooks (Unruled, or Moleskine for extreme portability) for ephemeral notes

@Taweret Ornithology peeps (see what I did there): Is this the proper way to hold a bird? It looks a little perilous for the bird, but something similar is going on here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG6qfUdL1e8&t=76s

Colored lettering fail.

Why are the college kids these days so into ABBA?

I have it on good authority that there's a reasonable explanation: Mamma Mia is a popular play for high schools to perform.

@trinsec Yes.

Well, that's a rather ominous email to get right before classes start.

#HigherEd #Teaching #Academic

With some excellent last minute help from the person who made the knife, my sister, and my sister's friend, we got the LED knife working in time for the show.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/XfK2faCaz3BCcC6Q6

#SivaAfi #dance #Samoan #Telugu

Finished The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin. Very creative and well-written.