Math word problems in real life. Which kilogram of pecans is cheaper?

Any chance there is someone on here planning on traveling between approximately UC Irvine and University of Arizona in the next little while? Might be looking for transportation for a sewing machine between those approximate locations. Nothing unusually large, though a little heavy because it's […]

I just want everyone to know that there was a four-month old border terrier named Silas in the park this morning and he was wiggly and cuddly and I love him.

Just blocked someone else for putting AI extruded image slops in my timeline. Don't worry, if you can read this it wasn't you.

400 years ago, Jubilee Marsh was walled off from the sea and stopped being a saltwater marsh. In the mid-2000s, the Royal Society for the Protection Of Birds bought the land and decided to ‘rewet’ the marsh. Just letting the sea back in wouldn’t be enough though — the land had sunk — but in […]

Hey, guyse, The Antidote by Karen Russell is a really, really good book! There's a core supernatural component that will scratch your fantasy itches, but it's incorporated really well into a thematic meditation on the role of memory in culture and individual lives to serve as litfic too.

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I perpetually discover anew that there are a myriad small sellers that offer exactly what you want for wayyy less money than the big retailers. E.g.: I needed a bunch o' spice jars for my new spice drawer. First I looked at Lakeland, Procook, etc., for small jars. But those were £££ for a trio […]

Raaah! Behold me, big strong and handy! I have installed a paper towel holder underneath a cabinet, using sheer muscle power alone! No electric drill for me! Just a screwdriver and my arms! (and shoulders, it seems, ow). (The screws that came with it were too long to go in all the way easily […]

RE: https://wandering.shop/@gikkt/115741162311184676 I am inspired, and shall continue inaugurating my new sketchbook with designs for illuminated capital letters.

Bin men are taking out the blue bins right now, even as I type. Take a breath and savour the moment. This is the last we'll see them until February. #whenisbins

on a discreet-murder scale from 'choked on a fishbone' to 'stabbed up the nose with a nunchuck', I think being garroted with dental floss definitely leans toward the latter end. #upcemetarylane

A dispose-elf always gets his man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljV_kvV12gw

I decided to buy some more mechanical pencils for my art, because the ones I bought (faber castell) at the art shop keep snapping my lead. Naturally, I went to r/mechanicalpencils for guidance, and boy howdy did those folks came through! They have very strong opinions on the Pentel Graphgear […]

I have finished my sketchbook! Last few doodles of the year are designs copied from Owen Jones's Grammar of Ornament (Greek section), and a tezhip motif taken from IG user @taherehmousavi.official.

In today's episode of 'previous owners were enthusiastic-but-not-very-good DIYers', I have learned that using expanding foam to stick a kitchen unit to the wall is Bad, Actually.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@maya_b/115681242613002284 For those of you who use Calibre: 1. The newest version has AI integrated in it (ugh). 2. Some brilliant community-minded folks have forked a new version of the software called 'clbre' (which is 'Calibre' minus the letters 'ai'). 3. I […]

This is just to say I have binned the condiments that were in the back of the fridge and which we could not possibly have been saving for any discernible purpose I ask no forgiveness They were antique so cold and so impossibly past their use-by dates.

A VERY hearty good morning to my food processor, which looked at a pound of flour and three sticks of butter and said, 'no problem, boss, give me ten seconds and I'll make a pie crust out of that for you.'

Some over-the-shoulder reading-my-neighbour's ebook tidbits from this morning's commute: 'If I accepted the mating bond . . .' 'His jade eyes pierced me.' Alas, I could not catch more plot development before my stop arrived, but my guess is that hte narrator WILL accept the mating bond, and […]

Look, if you recommend a book to me, then you're agreeing to receive the trillion messages in which I let loose the floodgates of my opinions at each chapter break. Brought to you by: my message to my friend who recommended Alchemised, containing speculation about necrothrall poop. #amreading

RE: https://wandering.shop/@ergative/115514988118659267 Woot! quote-toots exist now! I am testing their function by reminding everyone that Aleksandr Selevko always has a banging awesome short programme.

hooo boy, Finance Office is responding to a query about expense reimbursements by asking for a voice call. Methinks they're going to advise me to sidestep a policy stranglehold in a way that doesn't look good in writing, but is the simplest solution all around. #academicchatter

Ok, so Lara Naki-Gutmann has done The Birds, and Jaws, so clearly next year she's got to do Snakes on a Plane. Or Anaconda. #figureskating

Now some thoughts on #skatecanada men's free skate. #figureskating

Petition to stop using the tired old 'Que(e)rying' pun in academic papers about gender/sexuality stuff. Please. Find another pun. #academicchatter

GODDAMMIT HICCUPS JUST GO AWAY ALREADY!!

Hi, friends! It's the first Wednesday of the month, so once again I've got a Nerds of a Feather post up on Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings. By now we've reached book 2 of the Rain Wild Chronicles, and I spill some ink discussing what it takes to agree on rules for self-determination, both […]

People won't remember that I presented the same data back in 2018 last time they invited me to give a talk, right? I've been working on this project off and on for a decade now. Back then, it was very new and fresh, and they got preliminary interpretations. Now I've replicated one of the […]

Got my covid booster yesterday. Now my arm is sore, my lungs are sore, and my head is sore. Please reward my virtue signalling with engagement statistics. I'm hurting here.

STOP ! POINTING ! AT ! EVERYTHING! #figureskating #gpcupofchina #icedancing

#spanish speaker help needed! I'm writing some examples of Spanish agreement for a lecture I'm preparing. For Reasons, I'd really like it to involve the word 'hamster' in singular and plural. E.g., 'Look at the hungry hamster' and 'Look at the hungry hamsters'. Google translate offers Mira el […]

Hi, friends! I have a review up on Nerds of a Feather today, about DINOSAURS!! This was a book that I started reading expecting nothing more than a goofyish DINOSAUR romp, and got pleasantly surprised by some unexpectedly nuanced social commentary woven in to the main DINOSAUR plot […]

Me in mid-September: Gosh, I've got a LOT of research work that needs to get done in October. I'd better hire a casual student worker. Hey, ops admin, please hire this person as my assistant! Here's the person, here's the budget code, here's the paperwork. Ops office: sure thing! They'll be all […]

Me watching competition programmes beautifully choreographed to Turendot: Eurgh, that's so boring and conservative! Let your personality show through! Me watching the gala performances, with chipmunk costumes dancing to NSync: no not like that #figureskating

I had to attend an excruciating workshop last week, in which the presenter told us that if we were sufficiently engaging and non-exclusionary to our students, they wouldn't feel the need to use AI. Today, I got an apology from the organizer of the workshop for how bad it was, and a notification […]

I don't know why I get such joy watching Lamb hurl abuse at River. I just do. It's coming from the same part that likes watching Reacher punch All The Things. #SlowHorses

Oh, well done, well done Young You! That was exquisite. So lovely.

Ok. So. I quite like the 90s theme of the rhythm dances this year (oh, yeah: #figureskating It's fun to revisit those songs, to remember the cargo pants, the wallet chains, the pleather. And I love Guignard and Fabbri. They (along with Fear/Gibson) are my absolute favourite ice dance pair […]

Time for pairs sp! We're starting strong, with my two FAVOURITES IN THE WORLD pitted right against each other. #figureskating

All right, friends! It's #figureskating time! Grand Prix de France, women's short programme, let's gooooooo! I'm bracing myself in anticipation for a lot of gratuitous overhead shots.

Shh i'm going home early today. no reason. just don't want to work anymore.

Got a bit inspired by Joles over on bsky. #calligraphy

I had my first supervisory meeting with a new PhD student. Everything went fine, and right before we ended I had to bring up the elephant. 'So,' I said, delicately, 'I want to talk about AI.' 'Yes,' she said, eyes huge, attentive on my face. 'I'm averse to its use,' I began, and stopped. She […]

Hey, just popping up to say that I'm really, really enjoying 'Stars Uncharted', by S.K. Dunstall. It's a good ensemble space adventure with rag-tag team of explorers with unlikely backgrounds and combinations of expertises searching for hidden secrets and avoiding evil big corporations out to […]

HOW IS IT ONLY WEDNESDAY??

Turns out our place has had a slow gas leak for the last three years. Anyway, it's fixed now.

Mr Absolutive is looking over lists of old Booker prize shortlists and getting outraged to learn that, 15 years ago, the winner was a book he loathed.

Hi, friends! I have a review up on Nerds of a Feather about Yume Kitasei's book 'The Stardust Grail', which is a space adventure with heists and tentacles and archaeology that delivers exactly what it promises -- but somehow, not any more […]

Dear world, Mr Absolutive wants you all to know that if Louise Erdrich or Jenny Erpenbeck win the Nobel Prize in literature, there will be a party in the house tonight. (His colleague, who is pulling for Atwood, will still be invited, notwithstanding.)