Florida scenes.

New Book Day! blogs.und.edu/und-today/20...

They're derivative, but ok.

Hoar frost snap shots on the way to @uofnorthdakota.bsky.social glampus today:

I'm not anti-science. I believe in the liberating power of vaccines, I eagerly anticipate a Banksian utopia where super-intelligent AIs rule the world, and I use GPS to navigate to work every day. But why is it that eclipses are always visible somewhere else. #TrustbutVerify

A sunny and cool midmorning walk. I love the Sigma Quattro. It only really works when it is very bright outside, but when it is bright, you can't see the screen to frame a shot (and there is no viewfinder). It reminds me of the adage that if you have to frame the shot, you've already lost.

It's a heck of a day to be writing about oil and photography. My timeline is filled with AI generated scenes of refineries ablaze as confused evidence for the sticky ubiquity of oil as a hyperobject. The scenes generated by AI are actually more authentic expressions of oil than actual photographs.

Playing a bit with a shaft of sunlight.

Despite my pledge to spend more time on social media, post more, "engage" more, and so on, when I get busy I fall into old habits. Anyway. Here's a little still life: Behind the Microwave.

Why would they put the SOTU opposite the Sixers-Pacers game? It seems like they don’t want people to watch.

My tree friends were showing out this morning because I showed up with my fancy Sony camera.

Stuff and snow.

Bill's chapter narrates how he turned a budget crisis into a teaching opportunity--he taught a course on the university budget, and equipped his students with the understanding and agency to advocate for *their* university--all as they produced an actual book! Teaching as activism, at its finest

I'm honored that my work will appear in this volume!

Coming soon.

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

I teach historical methods and writing. I am not very good at teaching this stuff partly because I struggle to remember what if feels like to write (or really anything about doing it). Is this common? Can other people remember how it feels or what the experience of writing is like?

I know there are far more important things in the world right now, but I’ll be annoyed if we don’t have a snow day tomorrow.

I have a yuge stack of grading and the Daytona 500 on. I wonder whether this will be more of a "grading during long green-flag runs" or a "grade during cautions" kind of race.

India v Pakistan… good morning World Cup!

Midmorning walk:

Moody.

Welp. Cleetus McFarland lasted 6 laps at Daytona.

More stuff.

There's plenty not to like in these photos.

US-Netherlands in the World Cup. This is a game we should be able to win. Let's GOOOO...

Stuff.

A nice Tuesday morning view of glampus at UND (@uofnorthdakota.bsky.social).

McBee Monday: youtu.be/fK_l88WAmTY?...

I have received dozens* of questions about yesterday's new book drop (*actually two questions). So, I thought I should share more information about Miloš K. Ilić's, The Children of Neverville. It's good, it's a free download, and well worth the cost as a paperback! ndquarterly.org/2026/02/10/n...

New book day from The Digital Press at UND and North Dakota Quarterly. Miloš K. Ilić, The Children of Neverville. Translated by John K. Cox. Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2025. It's free to download, cheap to buy, and very good. thedigitalpress.org/neverville/

Ehsan Adil is now the first player to play both for and against Pakistan.

Miles Monday: share.google/C0R6ObbxsJtX...

More midwinter thaw:

Some thaw photos:

The best thing about AI is that I can describe a book that I remember reading (often many years ago): the characters, the length, maybe offer some idea of the plot or title, and the robots can often find the title and author of the book for me. I know it's bad to do this, but it's so useful!

Charles Tyler, Eastern Man Alone (1967) youtu.be/Ar42yGPiLbs?...

After all the talk of "boycotts" (both Geoffrey and otherwise) and the unpleasantness surrounding the Bangladesh situation, the World Cup is here. India v. USA. Let's go!!

"We cannot pretend that broad dissemination of research findings is the primary goal when so many academic publications are hidden behind paywalls." #WORD

12 years today that Annihilation was first published...

Should I read "Lewis Herber"'s "Towards a Liberatory Technology" for the 10th time (even if I've not really internalized the arguments) or Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline for the umpteenth time. It's a nice decision to make. Maybe I'll alternate paragraphs in a kind of perverse mash-up.

Here's another small set. None are all that good, but maybe they are almost interesting.

I took some photos yesterday on my walk. I was mainly focused on textures.

Book by the cover: