I think I'll miss science the most.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

It will be a century before the Democrats nominate another woman for President.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute. -William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Orangezymandias

I have so many gigs with my new band today, A Flock Of Giblets

NY Times Spelling Bee has clearly never been to New Mexico.

Xenophobe much, Spelling Bee?

2024, thank you for your resume and head shot. We’ll call you.

Me playing mm. 42-43 of Ligeti’s “L’escalier du diable”

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Our cost cutting measures saved the college $8B! …. Oops, we mean $8. Oops, actually they cost the college $1m in lost indirect and in expenses related to rehiring staff and adjuncts we shouldn’t have fired. But don’t worry, this won’t deter us from this important work!

Our purchasing system is designed to discourage purchases. Our travel system to discourage travel. It should be easier for you to just pay for things out of your own money or not purchase them at all. Success!

Braised rabbit once again for Easter brunch/‘tis sacrilege on this day that I munch? -Shakespeare, from his recently discovered Easter Sonnet #notreally

LGA✈️CLE(Limitless Gefilte Albacore✈️Cleaning Lake Erie)

The ideal age to start a PhD is back in the 1970s

Just think if Trump hadn’t cancelled all those grants you would have been an easy tenure case. But tenure without external funding? 😢

You want me to teach young people critical thinking? The thing that killed Socrates?