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Polisci PhD now doing the alt-ac thing. Views are my own. Skeeting about Jayhawks, photography, food and dad jokes.
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I've been listening to lots of albums from best of 2024 lists lately. I don't know how the entire music industry agreed to make every record exactly 35 minutes, but I'm not sad about it.

LOL KU has a football trainer with a waxed mustache. One of the magical things about Lawrence is the overlap between the hipster crowd and the sports crowd.

No! No!!

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Mine is underwhelming. In terms of notoriety, probably Tiger Woods' dad. In terms of accomplishments, Nobel prize winning economist Michael Kremer or Second City founder Del Close?

Looking up what Lisa Madigan is up to led me to this fascinating NYT article from May '08 speculating about who would be the first woman President. Some decent guesses (Palin, Carly Fiorina). Oh and a certain Bay Area DA. www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/w...

Yes. And while it was nice of Bob Dylan to refer Biden to his vocal cord specialist, might be time for a new approach there.

A sign of how badly Google is fumbling the bag: got a new work laptop and left Bing as the default search engine.

Can’t stress how amazing this feed of all gift links/gift articles shared on Bluesky is. It’s largely the best of the stuff in traditional papers without the bullshit and fluff, shared by people who liked it enough to pay for it. bsky.app/profile/did:...