I am struggling horrifically with edits to my LLM thesis but just regaled my wife with a five-minute comprehensive history of the DC Comics supervillain "Man-Bat" so thanks a bunch for that, BRAIN

Thread: I read it again this morning: "Everything like letters of recommendation and essays and GPA can be easily manipulated by the wealthy, so we need The SAT because it's standardized and fair."

Today’s candidate for best unused Beastie Boys opening line circa 1989

As I get older the kind of vibe I want to put out is sort of a "John Astin as OG Gomez Addams" thing, which is really a "you'll understand why I want this or not" kind of situation.

If I had one wish I know it should probably be "cure cancer" or "no wars" but I swear "shift-ctrl-v is paste text without formatting in every piece of software universally forever" is RIGHT UP THERE

Studio heads: well I guess that’s a wrap for today Roland Emmerich (emerging from a mountain of cocaine): WHAT IF THE MOON IS AN A**HOLE Studio heads: is there Donald Sutherland Emmerich: FORTY FIVE GODDAMN GLORIOUS SECONDS Studio heads: *sold* #moonfall

When the moon hits the earth Like a big piece of dirt That’s a’movie #moonfall

It's free on Kingston Frontenac Public Library/Hoopla Digital so I started the Ferrara movie Zeros and Ones & the first 3 minutes is a selfie of Ethan Hawke telling us his motivation to make the movie, like we're his mom and he's explaining all the burn marks on the good carpet. I am very uncomfortable.

Kingston artist Herman Kaur (@artsie_by_passion on Insta) is in the Tiniest Gallery this month, with the print "Here Comes the Sun," a charming little piece that we happened across in the Tett Centre for Creativity & Learning during a visit to the Juniper Cafe.

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! Today we are celebrating our female faculty, post-docs, graduate, and undergraduate students in engineering! #IWED2022 #WomenInStem @QueensEngineer Queen's Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs Research@Queen's University

Great to see ECE Queens professor Ali Etemad promoted to Assistant Professor at @QueensEngineer -- he's doing amazing research that we profiled (succinctly) recently in the context of his announcement as a Mitchell Professor.

New in the Tiniest Gallery, via SkeletonParkArtsFest, YEE HAW by Alex Old! It's up for the month of July in #ygk. Check out more of his work at alexold.ca -- tons of fun!

I'm getting curious about a very specific turn of phrase in legal decisions and might have annoyed an ONSC justice. Law is weird and fun, and case reading is actually a blast if you pick the right cases. shep.ca/2022/09/16/dra…

When I see somebody taking a picture of somebody else on campus (and it's convocation at Queen's University, so it's happening a bunch), the 15 seconds after I ask "hey, do you want me to take one of both of you together?" is invariably the best 15 seconds of my day.

I feel like I'd enjoy vampire and zombie movies a lot more if they'd swap out the word "undead" for my preferred term, "schmalive".

It is vanishingly unlikely that Beef & Dairy Network has not seen this, but on the off chance.

I'm really happy with this one -- I met Paul because he was volunteering at a student event and said he had to leave early to be in a dance battle and I said "hold up" and one thing led to another. Great @QueensEngineer student doing cool things in the community!