I also keep going back to my lecture notes because of massive self doubt that I might have just presented it all wrong

My theory is he superglued the jeans to his legs and he can't get them off. That's why he works out and swims in them. If you see him with other pants on, they are just over the glued-on jeans.

Oh a piece of King Cake for me?

What I should have been doing this afternoon: my work What I did: make a crappy copy of this painting with Skittles Gummies

Some of my students are going to get to take exams with Nacho Cheese Doritos dust on them. That's a bonus.

Me, having watched 1000 hours of curling in the past week and now an expert in the game: "They're going to throw this rock around the front guards and freeze it on that stone in the house. It's their only play." Curler: [just whips the stone down the ice at 1000 kph knocking half the stones out]

Just for clarity here, my frustration is with some learning design/tech folk who keep reinforcing my belief that they don't really have any greater insight than we who are in the classroom day in and day out.

The category says "vocab" not "current events".

Thank goodness for past Andre, who wrote a pretty good exam. I only had to update a few small things.

As a pretty sweaty guy, I demand representation in emojis. There's the sweat emoji (😓) the cold sweat emoji (😰) and the hot face emoji (🥵). These don't seem to match my experiences. Where's the drenched with sweat emoji? The moist- or damp-person emoji?

Them: "If you want students to engage, you have to meet them where they are!" Me: "No argument there." Them: "For this generation, that means making short videos to address concepts." [spends a lot of time making videos going over content in bite-size chunks] Students: [do not watch the videos]

I have a ton to get done today and no free time. Therefore, expect lots of posting.

Never agreed with the evil billionaire before, but yes, it is undeniable that this nation was created by and for people named Scott.

A snowboarder going down the halfpipe does around 5 tricks. If they nail them all they get 80-90 points. If they nail the first four and fall on the last trick, they get something like 40-50 points max. I'm not sure I get the scoring in this sport.

Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy

Watching Olympic hockey and in a break in play the arena soundsystem plays Harvey Danger's Flagpole Sitta. I assume I have some elder millennial Italian to thank for that.

Resist narratives of inevitability.

Also Florida Tech.

There was (and still is) so much traffic on oak Street this evening that I got out of the bus, walked 3 minutes to a sushi restaurant, had a meal (okay a relatively quick one to be fair) and the bus still had not passed the sushi restaurant. Here's my meal for internet points restaurant = sushi mura

Watching the olympic figure skating and is it a requirement that you spin a certain way when you do your jumps? Everybody seems to be rotating, uh, counterclockwise I guessis how you'd describe it.

Hey #ChemSky. I'm wondering what PhD applicants are experiencing this year. I have a student with essentially a 4.0, 3 years of research experience in my group, 1 summer (another pending) interning at Pfizer who currently has no offers. IMO this is complete nonsense. He's getting antsy.

This semester I am making some videos for my class. I have been making them at random times since the start of the semester, but in each of them I'm wearing the same thing. Either students will think I made them all on the same day, or else they have figured out I have a very limited wardrobe.

If nothing is happening, heat it up If too much is happening, cool it down It's the WD40/duct tape of chemistry

I'm actually enjoying these winter olympic games which I'm pretty sure are the first named after two varieties of Pepperidge Farm cookies.

getting this and a lego Suez to make Lego Big Boat Stuck

It's still early but the hardest and easiest questions of the month on Thrice are both currently element questions.

Office hours today. Student: "Can you go over half-lives for 1st, 2nd, and 0th order reactions?" Me, a tad frustrated because I went over exactly this in class on Tuesday: "Sure. [explains it]" Student: "Thank you. The A.I. I used said half-life of 0th and 2nd order were the same." Me: 😶

Looking for digital accessibility info, maybe astronomers who follow me can help? How does a blind/visually impaired person person do computer programing? What tools/software make that accessible? Where could I go to learn more about this?

This is such a marked improvement from the chegg ads in NHL games a few years ago.

is that an ad for Catan at the Timberwolves game?

Very sad to hear that the actor who played James Van Der Beek in "Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23" has died. RIP Dawson.

molybdenum is a very underrated metal.

pain is your body's way of saying "ouch!"

Public service announcement: Skittles® Gummies are straight up trash.

As a longtime spaceflight and astronomy enthusiast, allow me to put down a marker or two here re: SpaceX and Elon Musk.

Johnny would be such an improvement over the bozos running this joint right now

As a descendant of coal miners, let me say a very forceful "Fuck You" to anyone who uses the term "clean coal" unironically or ever describes coal as "clean".

Students do not read every single word in every email they get. This is a moral and intellectual failing on their part. As a faculty member, I cannot be bothered to read most of my emails, let alone all of the two sentence email you sent. This is **not** a moral or intellectual failing on my part.

What I want it to be: aliens. What it will turn out to be: something terrible and tragic that is not aliens.

Students have no attention span and can't concentrate for a long time. This is a moral and intellectual failing on their part. The videos we get with our mandatory training are terrible and I can't get to the end, though they're <2 mins. This is **not** a moral or intellectual failing on my part.

Considering rebranding my "Office Hours" as "Happy Hour" to see if it will increase student interest.

Instead of penis injections, may I suggest a temporary penis-transfer program ski jumpers borrow extra bits from the lugers.

A billion dollars to whoever can remove the whiny drone noise from every olympic broadcast

Now that there are drafts, I don't have any ideas ☹️

Academics, do any of you feel like your institution has done an excellent (or even "pretty good") job at instituting policies to manage Generative "AI"? I'm on a committee looking to craft a framework for our school to guide faculty & students.

Okay this is super cool.

Currently reading The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and one piece that has really connected with me is the part where, after a hard day of dealing with infected monkeys, the military team decides on grabbing dinner. Not only do they pick Taco Bell, but it's a TB location I've been to many times!!

Watching the NBC Olympic broadcast and every time a southern hemisphere country is announced, Shaun White informs everyone "When it's summer here, it's winter down there". Thanks. Good to know.

“I was knowingly sending a student into harm’s way and enabling the predator” is a helluva defense.