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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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.
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I have run AV for WASP church services and I've done it for African-American ones and at least with the groups I worked with, there were definite differences in the approaches to time and scheduling.
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I never expected people would want to be virtuous, but I did expect they would want to not look like chumps, and boy, have I usually been wrong about that.
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I mean, I am physically at my office, but mentally.....
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The only cheese my ancestors know about is the powdered stuff in the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese box. Which, if I want rice, is right next to the Minute Rice.
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Mine moved significantly from domestic to foreign stocks toward the end of 2024, which seems to have been smart. (The fact that I even bothered to look is, for me, pretty radical.)
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Yeah, my retirement account is invested in an age-targeted fund, and I have never felt the urge to find out about their investments in specific stocks, but I'm curious now.
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I agree, but I never understood why the board of any one of those companies would put up with their CEO having a part-time job while he ran another company. True fiduciary care seems like it would have dictated kicking him out at least a couple years ago.
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I'm so glad you're back, but omfg.
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But it's not REAL pork.