The thing is that he is so good at adjusting lyrics to the setting.

I was listening the audio version of this as I scrolled past. www.pbs.org/video/pbs-in...

What font is that?

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

What font is a big black bar?

At the risk of typing these letters in a row, I don’t really like the idea of a sports slogan ‘hard to kill’.

The tie-breaker in sports should be color contrast.

Why is the word ‘inventing’ used?

Terrifying but even then unsurprising.

I really like this video.

Shells of humans with too much money?

Absolutely normal 70°F winter days with 35MPH winds.

There parenthetical, not the first part. The how, not the what or why.

It would be fun to make a clock where the hour hand was a white-breasted nuthatch.

This is such a great album. getondown.com/products/del...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten a lot more pushy grade emails this semester than I have in a *while*. And no offense to them because it is just a product of crumbling systems.

Fear of never-ending war. Uncertainty about never-ending war. From a distant, but encroaching, perspective.

I’d like to call it “Data Representation and Exploration”, which is the concept, representation, that I’ve been looking for since I first got the chance to teach it. I put some effort into color vision, and made mentions of other technologies, but I’d like to try a bit more.

I feel like the biggest boost to accessibility would be to reduce the amount of stuff we teach. (Yeah I asked the annoying comment/question but the point was about practicality. Without more labor we can’t do everything again for the first time all at once. Something will have to go, and what?)

“Made in China”

Sitting in a webinar about accessibility (in math) while planning a class called “Data Visualization & Exploration”.

The headline sucks, but the good news is ‘smaller cars’.

Fickle Failure.

Spring 2026: Planning Big Dumb Things

Is a response rate of 400 out of 31,000 bad? And what would you do with those responses?

Good and I hope the AI layoffs, just like with Dorks Organizing Goofy Evictions, are reversed and I hope people get paid or wind up better off.

I’m on here, finishing Fall 2025, please don’t judge.

Can we do ‘this is your brain on drugs’ commercials, but now about this? “This is your brain on AI”, and it’s a person holding a frying pan in one hand, an egg in the other, unaware that they can cook the egg in the pan.

People think finals week (as faculty) is ‘easy’. I hate it. I hate watching students suffer under the pressure of too much to do. There are occasional wins where a few people have some massive realization, but it’s mostly just torture and disappointment.

I thought I was the only one to take appropriately petty screenshots recordings of things like this.

I have on of my ‘best’ classes this spring and enrollment is so slow because its sort of fallen through the cracks of degree sheet requirements.

I use a broom. A Broomba.

I like that when I max out the volume while wearing headphones, the phone makes a loud more painful beep-beep at a volume louder than the content itself.

Spiranthes are very cool. My guess is three species in my yard at home based on blooms and bloom time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Congratulations on your airport chin up bars.

We’re a couple more mergers away from my Roku remote being out of buttons to push.

I am not yet done grading (no surprise), but I do have pairs of socks now (surprise).

Sometimes turning shirts inside out is a future-me problem.

I like how we want to put data centers everywhere, but our dopey, overpriced utilities can hardly provide adequate electrical power as it is.

Political scientist, throws the rock and asks if it hurt. Politician, hearing answer, throws more rocks.

Yesterday I watched* graduation (while listening to KGOU Weekend Blues and grading). I looked up to the performance and really liked how the audio and movement aligned. * I normally go, but let a friend borrow my robe as he is tall and was an honored guest.

This is an insult and and embarrassment.

Sometimes things are on sale at the grocery store because they changed the font or the color on the packaging, sometimes things are on sale ate the grocery store because they taste terrible.

Balancing “fixing next semester” while “finishing this semester”. Congrats to all those who have passed the second of these milestones.

Is Microsoft just making itself worse so that out of despair and frustration I might accidentally click the Copilot button?

Happy “It’s a mid-types decimal, not a date” Season to everyone spending their weekend with a spreadsheet.

Is this what they look like?

This is exclusively why my windows are dirty too.