“A Christmas Carol” (1999 film) with Patrick Stewart and Richard Grant! #WhatTheDickens

If this plan advances one iota, I’m going to have to scrub my work history to say I spent 1993-1999 unemployed.

If this plan advances one iota, I’m going to have to scrub my work history to say I spent 1993-1999 unemployed.

Many people believe that frankincense was one of the gifts brought by the wise men but actually Frankincense *was* the wise man - the gift was Frankincense's monster.

There should have been a “Law & Order: Internal Affairs”. Why didn’t we get that?

I just looked up the time for tomorrow's JMU vs Oregon game and it's listed as 7:30 PM and I'm pretty sure the fact that the time is given in eastern time zone and not pacific time zone means the fix is in for JMU.

You know where this kind of discussion across differing viewpoints *actually* happens on a daily basis? In university classrooms across the country.

I'm sorry but what the hell is this?

(I clear my throat and smile at the interview panel) "Yes, I am inexperienced and unqualified. Is that a good thing?"

I used to have a friend who was fixated on the phrase "Western civilization" and one day around 2012 I asked whether he would rather see future USA adhere to the Constitution while becoming racially Asian, or eschew the Constitution while remaining majority white, and that's how I lost that friend.

You air drop me into a 3rd world country with a million dollars in my pocket and within a few years I will have $5.

8-year-old me would be devastated to know that I have my own place and there are zero bead curtains in the many doorways.

"Yes, it isn't useful for most things, and it was built by stealing from people. On the other hand, we're pretty sure it will make you worse at your job AND it is driving up your power bill."

There is some percentage of physics students for whom I simply cannot seem to break them of saying that up is north, down is south. A vector that points 30° above the horizontal? That's in the northeast quadrant, they tell me. These are smart students, but this topic is a blindspot for some.

I know nothing about college sports but today I am enjoying all of the reactions from people who stated with certainty that JMU would not get into the college football playoffs.

Here is my real concern with AI: Your students are giving all of your material to the AI for free. Everything you wrote or created and did not keep to yourself? The students have already fed it directly to the AI sites. For free. #academicsky #k12 #Copyright

I'm not sure how to explain how gauche it strikes me that CNN keeps using the phrase "double-tap" in reference to this story. It reeks of a desire to be seen as cool by the cops or the combat veterans. Perhaps it's just me.

Guess what? I got a FIFA! And the only prescription... is more cowbell!

Next week is finals week and I am going to put a message on the front page: PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE THROWING OF SNOWBALLS WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE EJECTION FROM THE EXAM.

Wake up, check email, see that the university is not closed or delayed due to weather. Get ready, shovel a bit, start driving. Radio says the interstate is blocked. GPS says take the back roads through the farms. (GPS doesn't see the weather.) This should have been a delay or closure.

Do you know someone who falls asleep during meetings? I am available for hire to stand behind them and wake them up. Rates unreasonable, but times flexible.

Average Elon tweet be like: "Wow" or sometimes "🎯"

Here's the thing: professors, departments, colleges and universities are not good at teaching this. In this environment, it's practically a setup, especially for TAs, grad students, and other new instructors.

Does the text of the poem include ~10 kilograms of plutonium physically dropped in your lap or something? Because getting the material is generally considered the hardest part.

What is it that the influencers think "POV" means?

For those of you who do not listen to political AM radio talk shows, I want to let you know that this has been the discourse there for 30+ years. Specifically, that culture is genetic, immutable, immalleable. That non-white immigrants will kill us all. It is blatant white supremacist propaganda.

Can we get a vibe check from Rockingham County, VA, as the VP of the USA says people who like the taste of turkey are “full of shit”?

Can we get a vibe check from Rockingham County, VA, as the VP of the USA says people who like the taste of turkey are “full of shit”?

At the time of the American Revolution, Boston had a population of about 16,000 people. Fenway Park has a capacity of more than 37,000.

Billionaires are Dragons.

I see it's "Uncle-Bashing Season" again. But only the bad uncles, I realize. #NotAllUncles

I agree with this and I’m still feeling good about becoming an anti-AI hipster over here.

Update: A colleague down the hall notes that if we went with "meter newtons" it would abbreviate exactly like "millinewtons", and I am devastated to recognize that he is right.

Okay, #iteachphysics crowd, torque is defined as the cross product of the (lever arm) displacement vector and the force vector. Shouldn't that give us units of meter-newtons? So why do we use newton-meters?

Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

Wow, that guy at the park in the Vineyard Vines T-shirt DID NOT like it when I told him I like his Fudgie the Whale shirt.

Of all the living Nobel laureates, which is the worst person?

The best movie dance sene ever made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyhy...

Ross Douthat coming in HOT with this one, straight from the worst part of the year 1954!

I see we are now to the "no, you can't fly" part of making the USA great once more.

Steinbeck and Springsteen for The People! @brucespringsteen.net Read more about this song at springsteenlyrics.com/lyrics.php?s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CumZ...

Free baseball! You paid for 9 innings but you’re going to get more!

Biggest HBP ever?

My Dunkin installed ordering kiosks so I guess I’m not going there anymore.

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

I have always wished I could have met Neil Young's dog that was on the album cover "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere". He looks like he was a great dog.

I remember this shirt little anonymous confession. My opinion on it today is unchanged from when it was first published: If you don’t like teaching, go get some other career.

Oct 20th is "National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day"... Also, Canvas LMS is down (as part of the larger AWS outage)...

Halloween decoration: angry nerds version. Nice work, @pattyskuster.bsky.social.