Just once, I’d like to be at the beginning of my rope.

They need to stop publishing books until I’m caught up reading them all.

I think I want what we all want - peace, love, warmth, and an enchanted cottage that floats through the night, trading used books and black market rum with the wild folk of the wood.

Yes! "Garfield Goose"! Frazier Thomas was our Virgil.

Yeah, but we oldies grew up on "Journey to the Beginning of Time" (made in 1955, shown on TV at least once a year), which was very formative about dinosaurs. So formative that I remember practically every frame.

And speaking of R. A. Lafferty: "There are certain clap-bookers and clap-trappers who are making artificial men, or introducing artificial elements into real men. And these artificial contrivances are then able to stride about on their own movement like godlings."

"Remember when you are in hell that there are still nine other versions of you enjoying the nine lives of almost intolerable pleasure and enjoying it forever. It is always a cooling thought, and they can't take it away from you." — R. A. Lafferty

The real lesson in little red riding hood is to not body shame the elderly

They're foxes, not wolves.

The right number of projects is the current number plus one. The wrong number of projects is the current number plus two.

Not gonna lie, Mad Max made post apocalyptic society seem much more stylistically avant garde when I was a kid.

Completely apart from everything else, it is startling to me that I have the same regional accent as the pope.

I don't see anywhere on the website that faculty can express interest, or that gives more information for faculty. Is there more info? Or do we just have to email someone randomly chosen from the website?

They make left handed scissors and paper, but rocks have always been for everyone

Unfortunately one solution to heartburn involves losing weight.

The movie "Brazil" just becomes more and more relevant.

Sorry, should be St Paul Pioneer Press, but the rest stands.

It means pneumonia not related to alcoholism. For instance see the St Paul Tribune for May 1, 1930, which compares alcoholic pneumonia to sober pneumonia.

The writers of this simulation have completely lost the plot.

Miss Piggy was a parody of Miss Peggy (Peggy Lee).

This is important. Please do this.

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

#neverforget

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Raising my hand! It was straight from there to medieval Welsh.

first off, I detest "serial entrepreneurs" the words make my skin crawl.
Second, its intensely ironic to use "the decline of handwriting" cultures to sell an AI that writes for you. Can they hear themselves or are they just lost in the sauce?

It's interesting that this is the tail end of a whole series of supposed emails between Faith and Dr. Kutaywa, apparently first on Instagram. I gather the tone is comic. (Not that some profs are not just this objectionable.)

gentle, genteel, gentile, jaunty

I like the way the Olympic skiers just collapse onto the ground once they pass the finish line. If only we could do that at the end of the semester.

It's not that they think AI is better. It's that it's easier.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick