Dr. Holly Walters

This recipe is basically just a pre-baked pie crust, vanilla pudding mix, nutmeg, cinnamon, and egg nog. With a little whipped cream to hold it all in.

Essentially yes. Just with egg nog swapped out for milk.

Egg nog pie, with a sprinkle of nutmeg.

Mmmm....egg nog pie. My favorite after-Thanksgiving recipe.

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I mean, Roll Rockbone. It's so me!

The Secretary of Transportation is terrified of the subway. He canceled the maglev train. He's after truck driving schools. He hates most transportation.

But air travel? He pines for its glory days. He's probably going to require airlines to call them "stewardesses" again. "And no uggos, either!"

Well, have I got news for them. I have two whole classes, with many students who have accommodation plans, who've never once had to use them.

Why?

Because my course is designed with those accommodations already in place.

A Mystery Science Theater 300 "name generator" graph.

See, now this is how I generate my device passwords. Just make one of these the answer to my security questions about hometown and mother's maiden name and all that.

Fund the arts because they are a source of joy and human happiness and thought. Not just because a scientist may get an idea off a line in a play. (Though that's great too.)

Oh, great. The new beauty standard is going to become "impossibly fit and trim through drugs and surgery while then also cosplaying curves by wearing a fat suit."

I intentionally got up very early this morning just so that I could beat the storm on my commute into campus.

May the odds ever be my favor when I have to leave, though.

A drawing of Krampus with multiple curling horns, a long beard, and tusk like teeth protruding from the hair.

Primary drawing for this season's Krampus is on the paper! Still deciding on colored pencil or watercolor for this one.

An orc with a mace, named Boughs of Holly, takes a swing at a jester in a mask called The Halls.

I fully support the Dungeons & Dragons holiday season welcome post.

I told Carter. This was his response. :P

Many of you already know, I was raised Calvinist in a highly fundamentalist community. Today, I'm an agnostic. But I am also a scholar of religion (Anthropology, PhD).

My parents and I have also been estranged ever since my excommunication. Why? Because I left and went to college.

This is gonna seem like a nitpick, but I think it's significant: It's not a professor, it's a graduate TA.

Thinking back on my time as a TA thirty years ago, universities use TAs as cannon fodder, asking them to hold certain rigorous lines but reliably failing to support them.

I taught intro to anthro to many students like this over the years. Incurious, refusing to learn the material I was teaching, parroting religious/cultural talking points in a course on human diversity. I wrote feedback similar to this instructor many times.

This is absolutely chilling from OU.

Yes, there were humans controlling Tesla's bartending robots behind the scenes Tesla's Optimus robots, which served drinks and mingled with the crowd, were assisted by humans and "not yet fully autonomous."

I truly believe that The Wizard of Oz should have adequately prepared a lot more people for Elon Musk than it has.

Wicked, anyone?

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The thread contains the professor's actually very measured response which is, basically, “Please cite some actual sources, personal opinions aren't evidence, and try not to call your classmates demonic.”

I have one word for them.

Bing.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

"Can't handle" and "won't allow" are never the same thing. They know it, but they want you to spend time defending your toughness instead of them spending any time being a decent human.

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The Diminished sculpture on my work table.

Next, I'll be taking a fine sander drill and grinding the hair down around the top of the head, adding in a few more plants and leaves in the details, and.....I don't know. We'll see where the process takes me.

Getting the angles right for good pictures is a real trick though.

A pencil drawing of a fae sitting on a couch as both he and the couch begin to transform back into a forest.

Several views of the sculpture version of the pencil sketch. Made from multimedia materials.

I think I've been working on a sculpture version of "The Diminished" off and on for, I don't know, a few years now?

Well, I have a base version finally sculpted (multimedia) and now I just need to refine the details before painting.

When I finished my PhD my supervisor, bless her, told me something that has stuck with me: ‘now you know exactly what you don’t know’

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President Trump's Second Term Job Approval graph from Gallup showing him at 36% approval. Down from 60% approval in his first term at the same point.

This is what they are looking at. And it tells them all they care to know.

This is exactly what I mean. It's not about right or wrong. It's about profitable strategy.

If fascism makes money. Corporations will be fascist.

If resistance makes money. Corporations will resist.

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