Hell yes, just got tickets to Jason Isbell in Montreal. I bet they'll be "poutine" on quite a show!

Living my best Jeff Melnick life by seeing five bands across two nights in Munich, from punk to drone noise, capping it off with the incredible Mdou Moctar.

Billions of data points. Millions of CPU hours. Thousands of replicates. Hundreds of #xenobots. A dozen family members. Four years. One doctoral candidate. Zero flaws. Congratulations Dr. Caitlin Grasso (Caitlin) on your successful defense today. #ProudAdvisor #uvmvermont

You can hear the song about the can opener bridge of glenville here: youtu.be/W44DX9EfO84?si…

Ah, another academic semester begins!

Well dang.

This is serious Glenville "Can Opener" Bridge energy.

I need to get just famous enough to invite Chappell to a game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Wait was Jason Isbell's show in Montreal tomorrow cancelled? 😭😭😭😭

Thank god my four years of being a department chair have perfectly trained me for dealing with the paperwork of an auto insurance claim

The problem with software estimates is that they're both entirely right and entirely wrong. Yes there's a 3 week version of something. And a 6 week version. And a 4 month version. And a 12 month version. That's correct. Yet, you'll almost always be wrong whichever you pick.

Adding this philosophy to my syllabus.

Steamboats don't have sails, and "Saddles to Paddles" was just sitting right there for the taking.

I love the guy's books, but by "tries something new" do they mean writing a coherent third act to a novel? washingtonpost.com/books/2024/10/…

Mathematics. "Escher's Planaria." Worms in hyperspace. Source: tinyurl.com/4v2v7b9m By Matt Zucker, mzucker.github.io, Used with permission.

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I miss my home town neighborhood!

this is the way.

From my understanding grad students are also fed into the grinder/hopper labeled "funding".

So long and thanks for all the fish. Maybe see you at the other place.