whdevreaux.bsky.social
Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.
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Wiped out in more ways than one
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Speaking as a [civilian] IT nerd, an arrangement that results in email address changes when somebody gets promoted doesn't seem optimal.
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more like ". . . a broad public could fash out their disagreements . . ."
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How about a ridge that's "smart" enough to keep the evaporator fan from icing over & locking up every few weeks? (Yes, it's a Samsung.)
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I was not able to drink from the hose because I was too busy dodging lawn darts.
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Leipzig
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It was B. I'm sorry, I can't motivate myself to care about tomorrow's concert. At best I'm a third wheel and as soon as I'm done my clarinets are going into the shop to be overhauled and I'm going on vacation after getting tests to find out wtf is wrong with my arm.
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So, like, a Eucharist set in a courtroom?
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📌
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I'm generally not a fan of Christmas decorations in the summer, but I'm willing to make an exception.
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Yes, yes, I know, "dude, just start playing off of a tablet already."
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The only way they could "learn" would be to admit they maybe once did one or two things wrong, and that ain't happening in this lifetime.
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I subscribed! I kept all the issues for a couple years on a shelf in my office, then I ditched them when I changed jobs & they didn't seem worth moving.
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If I could have sent a bot to do my aural skills classes, I would have strongly considered it.
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My years as a student at a regional public university in the 1980s now seem like some kind of lost paradise.
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And also nobody's going to give you the benefit of the doubt if you've been pundit-ing for 20+ years on multiple platforms and everybody knows your shtick. So you don't just get "that's a stupid take" you get "oh brother MM is at it again."
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When our son was 15 he made extra cash umpiring Little League, but one of us had to drive him. One time we both went & stayed for the game. It was hilarious when the other parents found out we were there for the ump.
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One of my favorite Christmas albums from my parents' collection was from a series put out by Goodyear!
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"It just came to me, what kind of tools would a cow use for murder?"
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May I ask, how much the winning bid was?
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What about Caillou? Can we blame something on Caillou?
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I, for one, am truly surprised
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"Lots of buzz on newcomer Gweneth Paltrow"
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It is our own age which has seen the honest dealer driven to quackery, by hard necessity, and the certainty of being undersold by the dishonest."
(John Stuart Mill, "Civilization," 1836)
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Our own age has seen this evil brought to its consummation. Quackery there always was, but it once was a test of the absence of sterling qualities: there was a proverb that good wine needed no bush.
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It's not a very long path from there to backtracking on a lot of the edtech that's come along in the last 30 years. (Overdue for a correction, if you ask me.)
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I once said this to my boss...if everybody does "best practices" then everybody's doing the same thing. Maybe we should think about some things to do differently.
He replied, smiling, "So... you're advocating for worst practices?"
I thought for a minute, then nodded, & said, "Yeah, I can go there."
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return their carts to the corrals properly.
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Absolutely! I need a minimum of 7 vacation days before I stop actively stressing about what's going wrong in my absence.
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It's worth a look. I know that sounds like faint praise, but any telephony product I'm not threatening to take out behind the barn and put out of its misery is ahead of the game.
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We use RingCentral. It's not bad, but we have a volume license for our faculty & staff. I'm not familiar with the cost structure for just one number.