And in a stunning reversal, this video shows Hiro holding out until the morning light... :-D

a person wearing a dinosaur mask giving the middle finger ALT: a person wearing a dinosaur mask giving the middle finger

And Sanders even used "half" so that "cut by" and "cut to" were the same amount, and he wouldn't get tripped up by the same super-tricky fraction math.

Given that as soon as I read the name, I re-read it to make sure my "correct" reading was, indeed, correct... Yeah, you are not alone in that. :-D

HA! What about "actual 'play' Actual-Play." :-D

(And I know the frustration this kind of careful word-choice can bring, but in my own experience, it can also lead to having to make the argument for the term you go with, which can bring its own deep and unexpected insight! I suspect that might be the case here, and I want to see where you land!)

Ooooooh! Do you feel you could make a "play-driven" vs. "performance-driven" (or "play-driven" vs. "pay-driven" for the rhyme-play) distinction?!

Given what I'm seeing in other replies, would a play on "not-for-profit" fit? You could even invent some clever play on a "501(c) AP."

If not, do you feel those responses are linked enough to a single drive that ISN'T profit that you can link them together as "[drive]-driven APs"?

Yeah, my first thought was "amateur" in the sense of "for the love of it" but it's way too loaded.

"Grind-less." :-D

I feel like this was all so much simpler when I was doing small conferences in Europe...

We went to the conference and presented out presentations and we all politely applauded... and then we went to the pub and got hammered and geeked out about our field . Then the REAL work happened. :-D

(In fact, I always assumed that was the origin of the term... A little googling suggests it's actually related to the root of "neat." Did not know that. o.0)

I use the opposite mnemonic: What I "net" is what I take home after some things have slipped through the holes. :-D

Wow, DoorDash tips are paying enough to cover $11k in medical bills, AND private jet flights from NV to DC? I must have been doing it wrong while I was driving. :-D

I can't say this wasn't involved in the spread of the term, but "redneck" as a term for an uncouth, labor-class Southerner predates the WV coal wars by decades. (See the OED entry.)

... or the anti-villain:

"Seriously, I understand that you lot think you have your reasons, but this has to STOP! You can't just go around slaughtering people and plundering holy sites!"

A hand holding a printed card that reads “SUPPORT FOR FAILURE”

When I started as a lecturer here, we had a faculty luncheon to figure our core values as a department. My table had a card that said “Support for failure” And I lobbied HARD to not only include it, but upgrade it to ENCOURAGEMENT of failure.

5 years in, still got the card.

My favorite year was three jobs in two different states and one foreign country. That was the year I called in a tax pro.

Do you have to do self-employment tax? Because that is a WHOLE SEPARATE PitA.

Coming out of my cage and... on second thought, the cage was pretty okay... I'm'a just head back... :-D

So they finally read Swift's "A Modest Proposal," huh?

BWAHAHAHA! Meanwhile, I'm over here losing my mind because my afternoon bsky scroll suddenly has my dissertation advisor (and current colleague) playing Molly House in that third photo. :-D

There is no betrayal in life so sharp as a terrible novel with a great title. None.

Bad novels happen, and you can live with that experience. But when they lure you in with an awesome title, and then stab you with bad prose and a dumb denouement... that pain is forever. :-(

Moretti's take, though, is that -- by current standards -- Doyle introduced them but had NO IDEA what to do with them: Clues were for Sherlock to notice, because he was oh-so-cleverer than the reader. It would take later writers, emulating and improvising on Doyle, to introduce clues readers saw.

Franco Moretti wrote a (highly contested) argument of the material conditions of genre creation called "The Slaughterhouse of Literature" where he specifically cites Doyle's introduction of "clues" and the creation, essentially, of the detective novel.

Why are they all rushing over to help?

Give him three days, he'll get up on his own...

This entire set of images gave me so much joy, I suspect I might have specialized in the wrong field. :-D

(If there'd been a fifth image of some floppies and a ZIP disk, my poor, shriveled heart might have a'sploded.)

Yeah, I mean the by-line is *RIGHT THERE*. :-D

I feel like this does for the op-ed genre what Doug Zonker's "Chicken Chicken Chicken" does for the science article form: Show that you can still recognize the sense of the framing even when the content filling it is nonsense.

And really, it's not about the actual DAY of your birthday, but the CELEBRATION of your birth and what your ministry has meant to the world.

For a minute there, it didn't occur to me that multiple states might have an "Ashland" and I thought you were going to be just up the road a bit.

Then reality slapped me down hard. :-/

(If it was actually last year, Happy Belated Birthday! If it's not until next year or so, you'll just have to wait.)

So your birthday is tomorrow, +/- 18 months. Got it.