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

There was a moth in the bedroom and apparently it wanted to cuddle. I caught it and released it outside. Time will tell if it delivers my message to the eagles.

Sherlock Holmes vs Mrs. Robinson: "Would you like me to deduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?"

My students are laboring under the delusion that I have a plan. I'm basically running the same grift as the writers of Battlestar Galactica.

#ForeshadowAndDecideInTheAir

Given the chance to give anonymous feedback after the first day of class, a couple of students wrote they had trouble hearing me, what with the mask, HVAC, etc. I had IT get me a personal amplifier, which I'll try out next week.

Every gadget comes with gratuitous features, so this one is also an FM radio, recorder, etc. Fine, but what I really want at my belt is a sound board when I need a rimshot, crickets, sad trombone, Jeopardy! theme, Yakety Sax...

#teaching #accessibility #asmr

Regency dukes, pledging to resist the loves for which they are destined: "Become ungovernessable"

#romance

*claps hands* Up and at 'em, people! Time to make breakfast! These wheats aren't going to cream themselves!

Not you too, Muse!

The Guardian: Muse become first act to top UK charts with NFT album.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/02/muse-become-first-act-to-top-uk-charts-with-nft-album

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.

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.

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.