i just finished a rather dull book that santa left under the tree i am now able to name from memory the six lake superior iron ranges here's a harsh review from the journal of economic history

RE: https://social.secret-wg.org/@julf/116108571559409798 Tell everyone you know: don’t go the USA.

Gift link: looking back at some of what came from Bell Labs: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/02/18/technology/bell-labs-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NVA.dunO.SyK241xuIpLK&smid=nytcore-ios-share

yesterday the downtown library smelled like shit so today i’m studying at the mallett’s creek branch

we leave for europe in eight weeks

Well played. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-13122-6_15 #uno #CardGames #ComputationalComplexity #FunWithAlgorithms #Algorithms #Algorithmics #Games #AI #ComputerScience #professorlife

i’m reviewing a master’s thesis that is extremely well-written but doesn’t really make any sense #slopalert

my dad hanging out with his anti-fascist krewe on a sunny day

i'm friends with a doctoral student from chengdu and he brought me a sichuan-style sea bass to celebrate the new year!

we had front row mezzanine seats at hill auditorium to hear terence blanchard and ravi coltrane play the music of john coltrane and miles davis #jazz #terenceblanchard #ravicoltrane

i'mma stay up late, drink too much, and work out the kinks in a mix tape i'm working on called pay the man. no, i don't know what it means. it doesn't mean anything. but if you just want to blurt out "pay the man" in a tourette's kind of way, this would be good […] [Original post on a2mi.social]

I’m on the Northwood bus to North Campus thinking about smooth jazz guy, the driver who retired during lockdown

I am stuck in an elevator at the Ann Arbor Police Department with a dozen other people

heads up cambridge, birmingham, ann arbor, and whitmore lake! #mixtape

last night around 10 PM the line to get into necto (local disco) went all the way down the block and around the corner. the temperature was in the teens (like, ten below celsius), headed toward single digits. i saw a lot of bare legs and bare shoulders in that line. brrrr!!!!

i find it extremely annoying that MacOS 26 screwed up folder icon caching. (2023 M3 iMac w/ 24 GB of RAM and no memory pressure) this happens not every time but multiple times a day #grumpyoldman

University Symphony Orchestra is tuning up in magnificent Hill Auditorium Tonight‘s program: Wynton Marsalis: The Jungle (Symphony No. 4)

i bought these rolling papers in high school and have been dragging them through life in my stash box for the past fifty years

Oh hooray I was able to pick up a couple of "senior rush" 👴🏼👵🏻 tix to tonight's performance of Wynton Marsalis' Symphony No. 4 at Hill Auditorium!

Ron Brooks Quintet at the Blue Llama

looks like "consultant" is going to be the shibboleth in this year's mayor/city council election

In a couple minutes, Wynton Marsalis will be sitting … right … there.

out of the blue, i'm having coffee tomorrow with dick haight, PWB and USG legend

Why are all these telephone poles hanging sideways in the air along Eight Mile?

headed to the post office to ship a couple mix tapes to LA and one to whitmore lake MI #mixtape

oh dear it's a late night dance party, just me and dudley moore's "bedazzled" soundtrack

[sportsball] does anyone else remember that time the fab five won in e. lansing and after the game juwan sat down at midcourt and wiped his ass all over that big green S? #goodtimes

[sportsball] when i saw that psg drew monaco, i thought "oh great!" but then i remembered that monaco beat psg the last time they met /(.*.)\

*The Asian fediversse. Not a whole lot going on there. *On the plus side, maybe the North Korean cyberwarriors have never heard of Mastodon https://fediverse.observer/map

As if I didn’t have enough excitement in my life, I am reading this history of a Great Lakes mining and shipping company. It only took twenty pages to utter the famous, chilling phrase.

-23°C!

reading a prelim paper on scaling up gpu-accelerated database query engines and feeling kinda gobsmacked at where that world is at i remember when we built a “massive” memory machine at princeton with … i think it was 256 MB of RAM. (it sat idle except when ken thompson was logged in and […]

i never liked that song anyway

thirty years ago i didn't have mastodon so i muttered to myself about in a kind of witless travelogue http://peter.honeyman.org/travel/travel.1995.html i have kept this server on the dl for many many years (many years!) but a bofh emailed me today which is prob'ly the death knell #alas

aidan's great, #a2council would be lucky to have him

they asked me to guest lecture in the security course later this semester! #joy i don't regret retiring NOT ONE BIT but god i miss the classroom either steganography or smartcards (or both if they take up my offer to cover TWO lectures!)

This identification of the dual state remains one of the most accurate and disturbing explanations of where we are: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/ And it follows: “if you interact with ICE, suddenly you risk […]

trynamic trio meetup

i’m reviewing a paper on reducing energy costs in large model training and it keeps slinging words like optimize and optimization around and calling other approaches suboptimal and i feel like i would be kind of an old crank if i were to ask if optimality is on the table here (it is not)

we added our tree to this big pile in west park

new boots, new sign #fuckice #abolishice

I’m at a Celebration of Life in honor of the late President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt. There’s a lot of emeritus faculty here.

**Upcoming#protest against #us attack on Venezuela in Ann Arbor, #michigan, #usa** ** _No War on Venezuela_** Ann Arbor Indivisible is calling for a Sunday January 4, 2025 Demonstration from 1-2pm at the SW corner (roadhouse side) of Stadium/Jackson roads in #annarbor to oppose the illegal war […]

my son, daughter, their spouses, and their kids dropped in and the place is lovely, noisy chaos

happy new year errbody!!!!!

happy new year to my european family and friends!!!

midnight and all's well

i am having some fun tonight texting and posting and listening to the six count basie LPs santa brought this year

i just booked flights: to stockholm in mid-april, return from rome eight weeks later lots of details to fill in