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

Bonus: The gregexpr function does it the other way.

For string matching, you'd expect in(x, y) to tell you if x is a substring of y, that is, if "x in y". Analogously, you'd expect contains(x, y) to tell you if y is a substring of x.

#Rstats calls its function str_detect, which offers no clue as to the order of the arguments.

@jalefkowit Fun fact: before they made it big, ZZ Top died their beards blue. Apparently they left blue beard-stains on hotel pillowcases across Texas.

Also, of course, the one member without a beard was Frank Beard.

Given the alternative, it seems unlikely that Snoop Dogg is a Red Vines man.

Overheard: "Bean soup is disgusting. It's just WATER with BEANS! Why don't you just eat beans and stop pretending it's soup?"

In a fit of autumnal nostalgia, we watched the first two episodes of the original The Kids in the Hall.

A lot of it holds up, with their brand of chummy Canadian absurdism.

There is also, though, some jaw-dropping racism. There's literally a blackface sketch in the first episode.

#3GoodThings

1. Live coded in three different languages in one class.
2. At long last, rain.
3. My copy of the Verdant board game arrived.

#3GoodThings

1. Resurrected my 9-year-old garbage collection assignment.
2. 807 plays of Cascadia 9.0.
3. Movie and discussion with @htdrake .

A main driver of social media addiction is, of course, algorithms designed to keep you engaged. Fortunately we don't have those here.

Another is the question of what to do when you have five or ten minutes before your next meeting. You don't have long enough do any meaningful work, so you check in.

What else can you do with a sliver of time?

The air quality reading for today says "chunky style".

#oregon #wildfires #ClimateChange #ThanksExxonMobil

#3GoodThings

1. Successful Jeopardy midterm review.
2. New record number of plays of Cascadia 9.0: 437.
3. A long-awaited crowdsourced board game has shipped.

My college is gearing up to install a new president, but if we just waited another month we could have an eggnoguration.

#3GoodThings

1. Was able to rearrange things to be filmed for local news.
2. A suitable project for next semester's software development class fell out of the sky.
3. Went to a talk with @htdrake.

Hair comment of the day, from a passing teenager: "Are you the dude on the dollar bill?"

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ifo

@Pat I don't know that Miss Piggy would draw that distinction.

@jalefkowit I knew someone in college that had dated a Mormon girl. He was so afraid of the elder that would come around looking for him that he asked us to hide him in a cabinet. Sort of a reverse priest hole, you might say.