We should bring back the original iPad for schools: A slate and a piece of chalk.

About 500 hours from now I should be waking up from surgery.

Boy. Gallup pivoting HARD into just bald-faced fake news. “We will stop polling humans and use ai to simulate poll responses.”

Just had a filling done and the music playing was Eye of the Tiger. I felt like I was in an Extreme Dentistry Montage. So hardcore.

I have a pain in my back that makes it hurt to breathe. My dog is in a cone. My wife has a wrist brace on for painful tendinitis. And she’s working 14 hour days with a UM1 due in a week. And I’m having open heart surgery in 3 weeks. Folks, my family is a mess right now. We are doing our level best.

I was asked to donate any surgically excised tissue to the UW cardiothoracic biorepository research collection. I can’t think of a reason why not but I’m having big emotions about committing to it.

Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social Astra will be fine but she would love some extra treats.

Pittsburg. Though to be fair I lived in Philly for a while so not totally inexplicable.

Me: never has a credit card balance BoA: congratulations you can now by a brand new Volvo with one swipe of your card please borrow money please please borrow money we’re aching to lend you high interest money what are you some kind of commie

Definitely took some extra warmup. And a nasty knot in my midthoracic spinal erector make breathing unpleasant. But other than that felt good.

Green tea with matcha is good. But it does not replace coffee. 😒

One week until my final preop visit before surgery when I will learn the full plan. #heartsurgery

Convenience tools make you sloppy and lazy. Everyone should shitcan Canvas, etc. millions of dollars a year for a worse system than paper.

Astra is in the cone of shame for a few days. But her ear will be better.

Yes the rich should be taxed more heavily. But you could take every dollar from every billionaire and it would fund the government for less than a year. The real money is in corporations.

With Astra at the emergency vet for a terrible ear infection. Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social some good vibes?

This is my last cup of coffee until after my surgery. Tomorrow I switch to tea for a couple weeks. After that, herbal tea. #heartsurgery

I also got two new lifers while volunteering at the race: a Wilson’s warbler, and a black headed grosbeak. #birdwatching

Met a dude today who had some kind of major OHS and pulmonary embolisms and all kinds of terrible stuff due to a congenital defect. 12 years later he runs ultras. So there’s life after this.

Today I am volunteering at a race I should be running. Over two days it’s 37 miles, with 11,000’ of climbing. I’ve done it every year for the past 7 years. Which is the race’s whole history. I’m sad but happy to be helping.

In what world is a slice of cheese between two fingers not a sandwich. Give yourself credit!

Oh NOW I get the recruiting call to be the director of a university service center. 3.5 weeks out from major surgery. But I don’t want to relocate anyway, and it doesn’t pay enough to justify working for someone else.

No greater lie told in education than "preparing them for the world of tomorrow." Nah. You know which kid is going to be most prepared for tomorrow? The kid that can do a quadratic equation, has read Fahrenheit 451, and understands the periodic table.

And now we're starting to get reader reviews! Two reviews so far, 5 stars apiece:

Run today felt fine. I’m alive.

Dustin Nickerson is dead right about the Seattle Portland relationship. I will mock Portland to my dying breath. But if someone from fucking Chicago or Orlando comes for Portland? Imma hammer some nails into this baseball bat and go to WAR.

I don’t know if I’m more disappointed in @superkash.bsky.social for order the polygraph of his team, or surprised he has a security detail at all.

I hear so so many complaints from faculty related to the grants process that they would not tolerate from their students. For starters: "Read the NOFO" = "Read the Syllabus"

“The Boys” has gotten silly and repetitive.

In the best mountain ultramarathon of my life, I did 13 minute 17 second miles for 31 miles in a row. Rachel Entriken just did 13 minute 13 second miles, for 254 miles in a row.

Rachel Entrekin just set the over all course record at the Cocodona 250. 2 days, 8 hours, 9 minutes, 49 seconds. Fastest time, by any human, ever.

My college Russian professor told me to write a memoir.

ONGOMGOMGOMG PUFFIN CAM

Rachel Entrekin has opened up a 7 mile lead over Kilian Korth at the Cocodona 250, with 21 miles to go. I think she’s gonna take it.

I am a murderer. Wilhelmina the Second, Once Removed is dead. We will now commence the reanimation of Wilhelmina the Second, Twice Removed. Long may she rise. (The biochemist went to a conference and left the starter in the hands of a mere engineer. We all saw this coming.)

With 60 miles to go in the Cocodona 250, Rachel Entrekin continues to lead overall. 3 of the top 5 are women. Kilian Korth continues to set the pace for the men.

Chipotle/cumin seared tofu, topped with blistered poblano, grilled halloumi, and avocado. Chipotle potatoes with the rest of the poblano, and a tomato/snap pea/avocado salad. Not shown: lime crema.

This is the path the Millenium Falcon takes in Return of the Jedi. You can see exactly where the proton torpedos need to land.

Two things can be true: (1) depression drugs (and pharmaceuticals in general) may be overprescribed, and non-pharmacological interventions would be as/more effective for many. (2) policy limiting the prescription of drugs for depression will 100% absolutely kill and harm a loooot of people.

Rachel Entrekin maintains the overall lead at the Cocodona 250, 2.5 miles ahead of second place (and first place man) Killian Korth.

Brazil nuts have gone from one of my least faves to a highly ranked nut.

Definitely had HR up today significantly. But also it’s 20°F warmer than last time I ran.

The fundamental flaw in Star Wars is making Darth Vader Luke Skywalker’s father. Turned a great Bildungsroman into a stupid, boring dynastic epic where everyone had to be related.

30 days. Deep breaths.

Failure was my favorite professor.

Excellent birding day at the Gray’s Harbor National Wildlife Refuge. New lifers: Northern Yellow Warbler Wandering Tattler Red Knot Semipalmated Plover Western Sandpiper Short billed Dowitcher Caspian Tern

The final product. Hand made everything. I wish I knew how to plate. Attn @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social

Going full @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social on this: Consummé and carmelized allium/wild mushroom/ricotta handmade ravioli. Will be served in arugula pesto. Whole wheat sourdough. Still to come: butternut squash purée and blanched English peas. Everything handmade from first principles.

Tonight I am making ravioli to have dinner with some good friends.

Status: cleaning house while BB does a run with a girlfriend.