As many have been saying for a while, sure seems like the “who could AI replace” question has the opposite answer to what the bosses expect

The academic library version of this is when books are primarily either digitized or in offsite storage and delivered by request. In conventional stacks, even when you know exactly what you're going to get, you still at least see some other items and become aware of things you might not know about.

Saturday-after-Thanksgiving scenes in Cleveland

LSU flushes $52 million down the toilet for nothing, Northwestern says “hold our beer.”

At a lull in dinner conversation, my mother in law blurted out: “did you all know that when ChatGPT doesn’t know the answer to something, it just makes something up!?” The normies might be getting it. Slowly but surely.

Much like Sid James isn't Benjamin Britten, this also is not Benjamin Britten. #CursedCarols

my phone is suddenly trying to autocorrect the grocery store to "Legman's" (multiple times!) so maybe we don't really have to worry about our devices getting smarter or snooping on us

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles

Yale up 31-14 at the half and I feel compelled to remind you that the Yale Alma mater shares its tune with the Nazi song from the Marseillaise scene in “Casablanca.” Take that, Eli

Harvard-Yale for the Ivy League’s first ever automatic FCS playoff bid. throw that spheroid down the field, chaps! youtu.be/27PSHASlGUU

My most dad-coded way of coping with this stuff is borrowing the hex wrenches from the band office and fixing wobbly chairs in my lecture hall. I can’t fix most things on campus but I can fix those.

Love when what promised to be a quiet Friday suddenly fills up with an extra department meeting and an emergency “what are you people thinking!?” meeting in the provost’s office

These Texans uniforms are *heinous*. Just the worst thing I've ever seen on a football field.

This but for research

The little one knows me too well, and has found a new way to delay bedtime almost indefinitely

“MACtion Meat Raffle” is much more appealing than the time a few years back when Miami and Buffalo played on election night and dressed in solid red and solid blue to represent republicans and democrats. It was a good way to spoil that most beautiful thing in sports, the color-on-color game

Twitter and chat gpt are down. Bad day for people who suck.

Looks like we need a a separate website to know when Down Detector goes down. downdetectordowndetector?

honestly, it does my 90s-kid heart good to know that people (or AIs?) *still* can’t write gamers, hackers, or just about anything related to tech in even a vaguely plausible or authentic way

HARVARD SURVIVES 45-43 ON A LAST SECOND FIELD GOAL

Listening to two guys with Car Talk accents call the Harvard-Penn game on the radio is my peak nostalgic Saturday soundtrack. It hits like an iced Dunks nestled in a styrofoam cup* to keep your hands warm on a cold day. *before Cambridge banned styrofoam of course

“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!” —my six-year-old, probably

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

This is going in my short-clips-for-faculty-meetings file right next to “oh no, disaster! What a bad idea!” What an effort!

tag yourself I’m “music is horizontal and vertical inforamtion ? “

(It's amazing how many emails you can send when you're typing in 7/8, by the way)

I like the SMT a lot. It is a good academic society that is pretty consistently led by people who respect and care about their colleagues.

Obviously this was an eventful conference, but getting to reunite with Tom and hear him give a talk (at his peak TFK-ness, the man can make a stand-up routine out of Paleo-Frankish notation), along with a bunch of other early music superstars, was the best panel I’ve seen in years

I promise this isn’t just an Eero Saarinen fan account now (though it’s not *not* that either), so just one more. Look at that light. It’s glorious. After 9 hours in airports and planes I still stood there for several minutes last night.

Everybody‘s all “abolish music theory” because we get too excited about making a diagram but we aren’t the ones with big doodoo pants!!

Still so damn good, even at one in the morning

Just want to say, apropos of nothing, that Jennifer Diaz would never, and that she is a freakin legend. Now for some airplane mode. See you back in data center central sometime after midnight EST

Landed in Chicago and spent almost an hour on the tarmac due to issues with other planes. Ran to my connection, only to find a mostly empty 737 for the ride back to Dulles. Others trickling in. We were supposed to take off 11 minutes ago and I’m starting to fear I didn’t download enough Andor.

Almost wheels up to go home. I’ve got six hours of flying/connecting ahead of me, but an iPad full of Andor and a fancy donut some colleagues told me to buy in the terminal (E gates at MSP!). Great conference, all conferences should be in cities with abundant pubs and good transit 🚃🍻

No positive IDs but I have my strong suspicions.

I’m all settled in for a rousing game of “Spot the Musicologist,” at the very same gate where I ran into @kpukinskis.bsky.social two years ago on the way to New Orleans!

At least Mr. Saarinen knew what he was doing.

Firmly convinced that one of the circles of hell is northern Virginia traffic

I appreciate our comms people using the absolute goofiest and most obviously staged photo of me & my student from our very staged photoshoot this summer. I think in return they should have to appoint me as the inaugural holder of this endowed professorship. www.gettysburg.edu/news/stories...

Watching my first baseball game all year, game 7 of the World Series and WOW faster-paced baseball is such a better game. Why didn’t anyone tell me?

sometimes people ask me why we didn't buy a house in town. one reason, among many, is that this is the next town over 😳

It is 8:38 on Halloween and the parent fatigue is real 😂 lucky all I have to do after they go to bed is write a “please renew our VAP or our program (which you claim to love) will cease to exist,” no biggie (It’ll be fine but god it sucks to do this every six months)

Me: I'm going to be more gentle with myself when booking conference travel. Who cares if the college pays $50 more. Also me:

Having finally spent some time to look through the program I think I can confidently say this is the most overwhelming, overstuffed conference I've ever seen. I look forward to wandering around in distraction for a few days, sorry to everyone's panels I'm going to miss.

I'm shocked it's not "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS final version FOR EDITING Thursday - Final FINAL TO PRINT.pdf"

Soon.

It was a Saturday morning, I was 10 or 11. My dad drove me to Columbus for a book signing or a reading. He basically bribed me to listen to his birds and bees talk, saying if I just listened and took it seriously, he’d buy me whatever I wanted when we got there.