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

Multilingual #pun challenge: explain this joke.

"See ya -- or, as we say in English, chair."

#3GoodThings

1. Voted.
2. Free live Ghanaian drumming while I worked on student feedback.
3. Figured out which corners I could cut to meet a deadline.

My niece made me this anthropomorphic bacon, which of course I named Kevin.

Ah, yes, an "easy" recipe that requires three different kinds of chiles and a specific variety of cinnamon.

https://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/tacos-of-easy-slow-cooker-mole-with-chicken/

Easy compared to what?!

In their defense, they did put "easy" in scare quotes.

#3GoodThings

1. Got my classes prepared for Monday.
2. A solid Neighborhood Emergency Team deployment exercise.
3. Starting to learn juggling clubs (and hence torches).

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.

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