Nothing makes me love my past self more than finding the check list of all the things to do when getting ready to teach a course again.

Some things we've been saying in a place where you can see us say them...

I don't know who pushed for the overleaf list-of-projects page to have a pdf button for each project, but I bet they had tenure.

From an information theory perspective we should have a process for replacing rarely used short words with longer words in order to free up room for new short words.

Lute, asp, vex, yak, cud — these are so inefficient. Please nominate others and propose new uses for these.

The main daily newspaper of a major American city -- my city -- has an interactive graphic that the editors allowed to be called the Dumper Dinger Tracker. And I love it.

There are only two ways to feel like a wealthy professor:
1. Actually be wealthy
2. Get all-new whiteboard markers for your office

Phenomenal work by folks down the metaphorical hall

We’re doing a thing. Tell your Seattle friends.

I thought the punchline was going to be that you misremembered your room number.

The penduluum-swing of emotions as you go to find the video link on your calendar for your 9AM meeting, see there are two separate meeting entries for the same meeting (uh-oh!), but they both have the same link (mayhem averted!)

And imagine if, upon doing so, you asked a question relevant to the course but not relevant to completing the next homework

'on track' -- we see what you did there

Why is it called "cut and paste with formatting" and not "a bold move"?

Not *that's* going out on a limb!

Some days I'm just regular evil and then there are the days like today where I'm nested VLOOKUP plus an INDIRECT evil.

You've posted a copy of the master boot record!

I think we can all agree that your
assessment influenced your shopping experience

It's hard to judge

For printing double sided on a printer that can print on only one side. Your print odd first then even with the paper reloaded upside down or vice versa.

Did you want the serious answer or did I miss the joke?

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There's something oddly exciting about snoozing an only modestly-important email until mid-summer and it stems from the notion of, "oh, this will surprise in a small but positive way my future self."

When Charlie Chaplin Came 20th In A Charlie Chaplin Look-alike Contest - Flashbak When Charlie Chaplin entered in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1920 (or was it 1915?), he should have polled pretty high. A young Bob Hope had won a Charlie Chaplin contest had  Cleveland, Oh...

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(I hope this is seen as the supportive comments it's intended to be -- fighting absurdity with absurdity.)

I can imagine now 100 of us at the next major conference wearing, white-letters-on-black-background shirts reading, "Not as successful as Derek" but the bit only reaches Chef's Kiss level if Derek joins us.

The difference is volume

The world is so irrational it’s like every day is Pi Day

It’s probably more of a flosspacho

Wait until they hear about the triangle inequality!

You are entitled to only one Personal Jesus