Really tired of hearing all the complaints about how I can’t win the big one.

Need Chris Stewart screaming “Let’s get outta here!” after that Alabama game. Holy cow. 🐘

Southern Cal blew up the pac-12 so they could lose to Illinois at 9am pacific time

the woman talking on the phone on the bus and the man listening to loud music with no headphones on the bus are clearly about to get in a fight and it’s going to be really funny

Did you know that people used to send snail-mail postcards to authors to request snail-mail copies of their journal articles?

Hurricane/Storm Gabrielle movement into the Iberian Peninsula created from EUMETSAT data, from 0730 UTC this morning to latest:

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

I have a grad worker who's "Secretary of Grievances" for his union for the 1st time. He's learning fast. Him: So wait, the university would rather pay a mediator than settle what's basically a clerical error? Me: Yes. Him: I'm starting to understand why you're angry all the time.

I’m sorry but asking FIFA to move the World Cup or the IOC to pull the Olympics are going to be auto-mutes soon. If you’re suggesting either will happen, you not only don’t know ball, you really don’t know the administration of ball.

Met a temporary friend at the bus stop.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Soft early autumn light

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade

The stunned silence when I share this anecdote in my classes is one of the most memorable points of each semester, to me.

Not often we see multiple actual symbols for fog (three lines) on the surface weather map. Two lines = mist (maybe fog just not as thick). And Anderson, wth is going on up there? Y’all forget how to type?? Upper left number is temperature.

Can the person who gave me this sinus infection last week be raptured? Don’t really care which direction they go, just somewhere else

My old man football take of the day is that 9-game conference schedules are bad. They are anti-competitive, make it more difficult to know who the worthy playoff teams are, and lead us directly toward the "quota system" of playoff berths we all laughed at a couple months ago.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

can’t think of a better way to get your own die hard fans to revolt against you. if you know any CFL fans at all, they like how different is from the American game. If they go through with this, mark my words, the CFL is out of business by 2030.

About the only time I feel like I can get away with raising my voice to my boss: when I see him put an empty whiteboard marker back in the tray.

Listening to a security guy at the bus station complaining about an Uber driver who was waiting in the wrong place. “I should get their tag number and tell their insurance company they are doing rideshares.” Way too much Barney and not enough Andy in this world.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

I mean really, there’s nothing else that could have gone into the old CVS except for this.

Apparently, Tornado warnings weren't allowed to be broadcast on television the last time that Tulsa beat Oklahoma State in Stillwater

Can’t read my own research publications (paywall). Can’t read the science news articles I’m interviewed for and quoted in (paywall). 🥹

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

The squarish area bounded by these streets in Bloomington, Indiana is a quarter section (1/4 of a square mile) and has a good chunk of the IU athletics complex. Imagine how much better this space would be if the university went for solar canopies w/EV chargers in the vast parking lots.

I feel like part of the problem is that in the modern era, especially in the United States, people think that in order to count, they have to post about their activism or what they're doing. But here's the thing: you don't. 99% of what I do is stuff I never mention on social media.

The “Americans, learn about numbers, sizes, and scales” Challenge

Canceled class about 15 minutes into today, after one of the projectors kept powering down. Note that I left at the front:

Hey Siri, show me a user experience change made by someone who doesn't actually use the product.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Tonight at 11:30

Put my sunglasses on… to walk out of my office and down the hall. That’s the level my brain is at today. 👓

Yesterday morning: 0. This morning: 3.

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

Over-under on the number of curbs my bus driver hits this morning: 1.5. (It should always be 1.5.)

Who’s ready for another week of complete fucking bullshit

I made this year ago and look forward to the day I can’t stop having to post it

And to the rest of you around Bloomington right now, how about duck into a nice friendly local business for the next little bit while this shower moves through.

Seconds before heavy rain and we’re all just still casually enjoying our ultimate frisbee. (Intramurals, I’m guessing)

Pat McAfee is a downgrade from ChatGPT

every time you’re about to make a half-formed argument online, ask yourself: is there a chore I should be doing instead

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes