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25 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
As things turned out, Melanie is recovering from covid at our place tonight and I'm isolating with my folks, but next year. Next year.
Someday soon we all will be together, if the fates allow.
Until then we'll have to muddle through ... somehow.
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

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23 Dec
Just saw a reference to Michael Keaton as "the first Batman on the big screen," and ahem.
The Thalia theater on 95th and Broadway was a revival house when I was a kid—double features every day, one price for both movies, with the lineup changing five days a week.
The great thing about a double feature revival house is all the opportunities it gives the programmer for juxtaposition—one day I went and saw a 1950s sci-fi B movie on the same bill as a 1970s Italian sex-and-gore Frankenstein flick, just because they were both in 3D.
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20 Dec
I've been thinking about this a lot since yesterday, and this is what really galls me—rooting for your students to fail, and creating conditions to maximize the chances that they'll fail.
(Context: Professor went viral for leaving students directions to hidden $50 in his syllabus. None of them found it, but it turned out the phrasing and location of the "directions" made it near impossible for even a conscientious student to collect.)
Every professor has a choice to make all the time: You're a mentor and colleague to your students, working for their success, or you're their adversary, trying to trip them up, block their way, slow them down.
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When I was in England last month, I could walk into a pharmacy—as a non-resident—and walk out five minutes later with two boxes of seven rapid tests each. Psaki's mockery is misplaced.
When I arrived at my aunt's house in Manchester, I had some minor cold symptoms, and was supposed to go out with older relatives last night. So I just ... took a test. In my bedroom. And another one the next day.
It was wonderful that doing the right thing—the careful, prudent, responsible thing—was so easy. There's no excuse for making it hard.
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4 Dec
CNN, in brief: "We looked into Chris Cuomo's actions, and what he did was bad enough that we fired him while we were still in the middle of investigating. The investigation continues."
I for one am shocked to learn that even a perfunctory external investigation revealed Chris Cuomo to be ethically unfit for his position.
One odd thing about the CNN statement on Chris Cuomo's firing—they don't actually say that the "new information" they're going to continue to investigate is directly related to the scandal involving his brother.
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16 Oct
Yesterday evening, I decided to trick my body into thinking it had three different diseases.

My body today:
(Flu shot, shingles shot, covid booster. I may be some time.)
And honestly, I'm mostly just wore out and low-grade achey, with intermittent mild chills. As symptoms go, they're all manageable. Just gonna be a slow, lazy day while I'm waiting for my new superpowers to kick in.
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15 Oct
Or just...

Gallon/4=Quart
Quart/2=Pint
Pint/2=Cup
Cup/4=Quarter Cup
Quarter Cup/4=Tablespoon
Tablespoon/3=Teaspoon
Lots of people responding with "just use metric," but cooking is, like carpentry, a discipline in which using fractional rather than decimal measures actually makes sense.
A sixteenth of a liter is 62.5 milliliters. A sixteenth of a quart is a quarter cup. Fractions scale better than decimals.
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