I am doing these all out of order. Scotch started in mid-30s. Just started baking. Still can't keep outside plants alive.

The larger point of the author that they cannot fathom learning anything about teaching from experts outside their discipline reads to me as a skill issue---if you truly can't find anything to learn from colleagues across disciplines, that speaks more to your close-mindedness than their expertise.

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If you were a non-Catholic who was forced to go to a Catholic school for a while in the dreaded middle school years, can you band together with others with similar experiences and collectively excommunicate one person? How many collective months/years do we need for this?

I was one year outside the age range when it first came out. I paid for it out of pocket at Planned Parenthood

I'm not either but I remember hearing a story about listserve pearl clutching over a fruit cart a while back

I can just imagine the listserve blow up

Science is good. We should fund it.

First the email issue, now the phone issue

I'm with a former and a current grad student. We immediately looked up hydrazine tests

I'm a little bit older than you and the interface hasn't changed since i learned it in school either

The correct audiobook speed is 1.2x

70% or bust

Counterpoint: No

One of my first students (college) is now a colleague at a sister institution. We are discussing collaborating on a project. It's a good feeling but wow I'm old now

I have read both of these series multiple times

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You can not and must not ever let yourself be convinced that people with evil leaders are evil people. It is not true in Iran or China or Russia or America or anywhere. It will never be true. Everywhere you look you'll find people full of light.

I think Christina's intro might be her trying to fix the toilet

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Just sitting here watching the Artemis II live stream and looked up to see Falcon 9 going by

Screenshot showing Integrity in the forground, a crescent moon in the middle, and a tiny bright crescent Earth about to set on the Moon

Unreal

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

And asking clear clarification questions as needed

I love listening to the back and forth with CAPCOM. It's a good lesson in clear communication

I started following you after binging The Kingston Cycle specifically so that I would know when you have new books coming out. Promote away, please

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I just got my time slot notification!!! I hope there are some reasonably priced tickets left by Monday

Exactly this

I have been binging it all week and am almost caught up! It's so good but so stressful

Hugs. Sake was the best boy. I will miss the pics of his concerned looks

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"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--"

Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.