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If we live in such an amazing world of computing, why do I download a pdf, attach it to an email (in gmail), send the email, then delete the download rather than push a button to do all of the above? And no, the url from which I do the download, would not work for the recipient.

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Always have your elevator pitch ready

I would shelve the idea

In this edition of s@!t senior faculty say, I quote myself, "I will try without promising. Is it okay if you find out on the 19th whether I can get you a report by the 19th?"

A modest proposal to stop calling them faculty ranks and start calling them faculty cranks: The crank of Assistant Professor The crank of Associate Professor The crank of Full Professor As necessary, claim it's a typo or they misheard you

What if the real Mariners playoff spot was the friends we made along the way. :-(

You know those kids who don't know the Titanic was an actual ship and not just created for a movie? I fear I'm going to live long enough to meet kids who think Moneyball is about a made-up baseball team.

Congratulations to University of Washington UW Engineering #UWAllen alum Nicola Dell (Ph.D., '15), now a faculty member at Cornell University, on her selection as a 2024 #MacFellow, a.k.a. the genius grant! 💜 🏆 #UWalum #ThisIsUW

Countdown timers should display both the time remaining and the original amount of time. I will die on this hill.

"So, overall, I'd say your perspective is idiotic." I've never ended an email that way, but I sure have thought about it.

Some of my very favorite people are the ones who use all-caps in email subject lines when and only when they should. And no, I don’t have a rubric. I just know. And so do they.

Nobody lies to me over email the way, "Last chance to earn bonus air miles" lies to me over email.

As someone who has spent time making sure his kids root against the Yankees and somehow got them not to storm off when they were up 5-0, the most obnoxious thing I can think to say this morning is that Gerrit Cole lowered his career World Series ERA from 3.15 to 2.36 last night.

Sunday in America was 25 hours long. Tuesday will be 500 hours long. I don’t make the rules.

Home sweet home

For the tiny sliver of you interested in my opinions on MLB baseball or willing to tell your friends who pay attention to baseball, I wrote a very short piece proposing a "skip hitter" as a more reasonable alternative to a golden at-bat: docs.google.com/document/d/1p9…

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