Today was the faculty meeting where the retirement citations were read and it just makes me sad and mad that more people don’t get to experience that life.

I almost forgot my annual viewing/posting of this!

Omg I love Bicentennial schlock. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I cannot wait to watch this episode of The Crown in ten years.

It’s important to do because everyone is doing it. And everyone is doing it because it’s important. Imagine if that energy was applied to any number of other things. Supporting students. Pedagogical development. Empowering staff. Community-engaged work.

I dumped some feelings in a blog post about teaching DH right now. mackenziekbrooks.info/update/2026/...

Sharing this great piece of journalism from local students on Google's proposed data center in a neighboring county! www.powerinthedarkva.com

Excited to be offering a pre-conf workshop with Lisa Boutin-Vitela all about envisioning DH at your teaching-focused institution. We're hoping this will be a helpful reset and dream big moment for a range of folks.

Imagine being a Greenland shark. Deep under the ice, below any sight of the sun, you float almost motionless above the seabed. You do not know what is happening anywhere else in the world. You do not even know there is anywhere else in the world. This is the seven hundred years of your life.

I'm seriously losing my shit with all this AI generated homework.

It is weird to be as old as I've ever been and feel like I'm getting worse at teaching. Or the Chat of it all is really sending me to a bad place. Or both!

I had a three art class weekend! Highly recommend! Saturday was druksels at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Sunday was watercolor, and Monday was drypoint etching.

We're done. This is the only April Fools' joke I will be accepting. (From my local newspaper) www.thenews-gazette.com

The only constant is change!! My trusty course website platform for so many years. squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

Happy spring to everyone who just wants to sit and listen to the doves and the frogs.

There are some business profs who never got to make websites as a kid and it shows.

I put these Luddite prints up on my letterpress print store (store.wolfproofpress.com) if anyone is interested. (Store is new, so this is its initial test—let me know if you run into any issues?)

"The question was like, how do you encode all of that context?” 🤯🤯🤯

Well I'm going to go out and deal with non-native honeysuckle but I'm going to be thinking about how we've altered up our websites to avoid detection but it's our websites that are being used to power the confirmation machine.

If any DH-ers are looking for a summer camp experience, (team or solo), the CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship is out! Held at @vassarlibraries.bsky.social in July, it's such a fun and productive time full of the best people. Happy to answer qs. iliads.org/call-for-pro...

I have a little assignment where I got students a messy dataset and ask them to make sense of it and this year a student wrote that he’d just make an agent do all the historical research and I guess I’m a dinosaur now.

No one writing about Wuthering Heights has any idea what they're talking about.

Well at least instead of sitting on the couch crying about winter now I’m sitting on the couch crying about these poor athletes not all coming in first.

This is a nice piece about the secret security of small liberal arts colleges but hey maybe let’s not ruin the secret.

Ahem, personal knowledge management system app. I love that.

Why did I decide to try out new note apps in the middle of the day and in the middle of the week and in the middle of the term?

"We've Noticed You're Blocking Ads" that's because i don't want to see them. the doomsday clock of each of our lives ticks ever closer to midnight with each passing second. you must be the person you wanted to be when you grew up and that guy does not look at ads

January is hard.

I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

I stopped checking ALL email during break and it was great but also I did start to get anxious about what could be lurking. Reader, nothing was lurking.

Mailing xmas cards to my local friends and I'm using Google Maps to confirm their addresses but it's mostly the fact that they all have giant gardens in the satellite view.

Hot take but if you send me a Christmas card I want to see your handwriting and not just the Shutterfly logo.

You start to knit. You get weirdly interested in the properties of different fibres. You learn to spin. And then, then God help you, then you start looking at looms

Back at work after two snow days and it's one of those days where every link is broken what is even the point???

This poor girl in Minnesota cannot seem to figure out that she's using my email address. She's missing job interviews!! Get your life right!

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Does Ken Burns include this part?

Had a wild time at the Denver Art Museums today. youtu.be/E3HMsoBaXS0?...

This is the internet I want: bcn.boulder.co.us/basin/waters...

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Listen if you're like, in your mid-thirties and mostly just ignore physical ailments you should get some recovery slides. You can feel better.

Gosh another reason for local journalism... this week's paper is full of pictures and memories of the '85 flood.

I can share this now that the loan is over, but a few weeks ago a colleague was late to our meeting because, I quote, "my moon rocks from NASA arrived early."

Wow this linocut though... The Library Book, Knowledge, Liberty, Justice by James Lesesne Wells iiif.si.edu/mirador/?man...

ALL LINKS ARE DEAD ALL OF THE TIME

Had a dream that I was basically in Smokey and the Bandit except I was too cautious of a driver and the boss man (Burt Reynolds?) told me I was too much of a millennial manager and then to prove his point I started crying. Guess I'll keep my day job.

I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches. AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

The time I spend with students is so nice that it feels even worse to read the news after class because I feel sad for them too.