for a measly $.5 million of your $5 million, i will help you understand them all.

we already do that in the 1-point compactification of the reals.

<doing a Robert DeNiro impersonation> "enthusiasms"

i'm pretty sure my copy arrived in the mail on friday. but our campus was closed after 2:00 for a big event so it won't get to me until tomorrow.

like more of a joke than it was to begin with?

one of my great grandmothers was native american. my guess is that most of the people who are against birthright citizenship would think she didn't belong here anyway.

if you want me to come down and run one for you, we can make that happen.

thanks Tien. sorry i didn't get to say goodbye before we left.

Frazz knows that the students are the product and that society, employers, grad schools, etc are the consumers.

this comic is part of an assignment for students in my first-year seminar as they make their transition from HS to college.

[Ghost] Riders in the Sky YouTube video by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Topic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=74T7...

yeah, he's never done that before.
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my high school's most famous alum is John Forbes Nash. (Nobel Prize for Economics and subject of the book & film "A Beautiful Mind")

a man with a mustache wearing a grey sweater and a blue shirt Alt: Ted Lasso knows a good idea when he sees one.

this response is so good, i'm printing it out and taping it to the side of the hutch on my desk with the Tim Goldberg tweet about improper salutations.

i'm really opposed to AI in all of its forms, because i don't want to give up my soul.
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i've never had a rate. if i'm traveling to speak i ask that they cover my travel costs, pay for a hotel and buy me dinner. and i'll accept an honorarium if they have one, but i don't ask for a fee. but that may just my experience speaking at small places.

adding this to my already too long list of books to read.

has anyone checed to see if the pope is still alive?

it's *all* of the quadrivium as envisioned by the Greeks:
arithmetic = pure number
geometry = number in space
music = number in time
astronomy = number in space and time

for my part, i think we also get logic, so that's a third of the trivium too, for a total of 5 out of 7.

ounce?!? they wouldn't have a cubic beardsecond combined.

i'm embarrassed for all of us.

as a corollary to this you can say that egg salad on a hotdog bun is a chicken salad sandwich.

yes and then have a regular dessert after dinner too.

a group of people standing next to each other on a plane . Alt: as bad as everything is right now, even Robert Stack knows that sniffing glue is not the answer.

maybe it thought you picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.ª

ªas bad as everything is right now, sniffing glue is not the answer.

thanks a lot. the stress of the impending semester now has me wanting to find a wall to demolish.

happy new year Dave.

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M*A*S*H New Year YouTube video by Gary Giehler

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Gk...

taking a walk and then trying to finish 3 more books before midnight. and having dinner in there somewhere too.