1. Several events weakened Trump and the GQP.
2. @b0rk's printed zines (https://wizardzines.com/) arrived.
3. Last Fire Arts burn of the year.
Some freeways may be useable following ‘the Big One’ per new modeling by University of Washington
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/05/some-freeways-may-be-useable-following-the-big-one-per-new-modeling-by-uw/
#earthquake #cascadia #pnw #washington #oregon #seattle #portland #pdx
1. Students somehow made several snowmen out of the half inch that fell yesterday.
2. No more Mondays this year.
3. A road blocked by construction for the last year has reopened, restoring campus topology.
If you’re a #Wikipedia fan like I am, you may enjoy this list of hoaxes that lasted on the website for a significant amount of time, including some that lasted more than ten years.
Remember to check the references of an article if something seems comically spectacular!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia
|1| is an absolute unit.
Is #prolog of more than historical interest? I'm having trouble motivating my programming languages students (and, frankly, myself).
1. Snow!
2. A fire.
3. The grading backlog is tamed.
Half baked game idea:
The primary action is writing long, Regency-style sentences. (The hardcore players do it with fountain pens on parchment.) Either it's a logic puzzle where you have to meet various randomly generated structural constraints or it's a social deduction game where you need to convey secret messages to just some of the other players.
Working title is either Screed (if you're writing manifestos to be published in newspapers) or Your Humble Servant (if you're writing letters).
Bessie Stringfield
'In 1930, at age of 19, Bessie Stringfield flipped a penny onto a map of the US then ventured out on her bike alone. She became the first Black woman to ride a motorcycle in every one of the connected 48 states — a solo cross-country ride she undertook eight times during her lifetime'
https://medium.com/femalepioneers/femalepioneers-4-bessie-stringfield-52160dd789a0
#Violet has settled in the puffy chair to watch the birds outside battle over seed and suet while the snow falls.
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.