I'm only in season 1 still, but Niles might be one of my favorite characters. He's like... a WAY less annoying Sheldon
NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.
Oh so true! Thank you 😅
From context, that strange one *must* be October 8 1969, but tell me why they appear to have written "j/8/'63" 😂 E. C. from the Department of Spanish, your penmanship leaves something to be desired.
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Amused by all the various ways people represented dates on a single page of this book:
19 : iii : '69
28-3-1969
19 · v · 69
27-viii-69
9.x.69
?/8/'63 ??
25th Oct 69
5th February 1970
Why are dates like this 😂 😭
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Damn! SNL with the surprise guests tonight! Also, when did Marcus Mumford have this glow-up??
Post a knight 🗡️ This one lives on my arm 🐌
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I did not expect to be crying this much at the first episode of the Scrubs revival 😭😭😭
just a reminder that you already know everything you need to know about the state of the union and unless you will enjoy watching it there's a million other things you can do. you don't have to be "in the loop." the loop is a trash place to be tbh
We need the curling guy added to this
This is so fun! If I was still teaching, this would 1000% make its way onto a MedRen or Brit Lit survey syllabus😍
My OE is rusty--I'm on fairly solid ground through 1200, but 1100 I've got only the *gist* of what is being said
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+ What?? Not fair!! These students had done nothing wrong! It wasn’t their fault they shared preferences in common with the cheater! Then we talked about how gang databases and DHS’s “link analysis” tools work, how through no fault of their own, regular people are criminalized.
It is always the answer to my guitar woes
Okay but why is capo 4 the best one
Accidentally caught a couple minutes of an episode of Grimm on TV, and they were like "Whoa this is some kind of Old English manuscript from 1217" and then showed some Book of Kells-looking script 😅 So much wrong with one sentence
I always tell students that university is a rare opportunity to study things that are interesting rather than useful.
Those I'm closest to who are still in academia aren't... having the best time (understatement) with the current political situation. I am grateful my job is less directly in the line of fire. Maybe now is a time when everyone is mourning what we hoped that career could be
When I finished undergrad, I thought I'd go into academic libraries. I miss research and teaching so, so much. And I could handle the lower pay; I wouldn't love it, but I could. But I don't think I can handle moving at the whims of the job market
Just woke up from a dream in which I was teaching again, two classes of undergrads. I miss it so much 😭 I was never someone who thought I'd seek a TT job, but now that I'm out of academia entirely I have moments of grief--this is the most intense it's been! I feel I've let my past self down.
It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!
Okay, *actually* the last thing for now--here is the distribution of states in the collection but show with the actual coins themselves! It's a W I D E picture since I had to stitch 6 together.
... also #dataviz #dh on all this 😅
Last thing for now, I will say I think the Wyoming coins is the most poorly-designed. Not because I don't like the image, but because it doesn't wear well! I think the lack of fine detail makes it easier for it to rub away, counterintuitively. Fewer crevices for contrast-creating dirt?
I think next I'll do a subjective rating of how much I personally like the design of the coin and see if there's any correlation there. I am not the one who saved most of them, but still!
The fact that Delaware-minted coins mostly go west and Philadelphia-minted coins mostly stay east really shows here, too! This collection was made mainly in WA state, so of course D coins are much more common. Interesting that despite OH being more commonly D, it's still under in the collection
Shown a slightly different way, here is how over (or under) represented each state is, based on those percentages. I was *shocked* when I learned that Connecticut, Georgia, and New Hampshire aren't the top three minted, I feel like I see SO many of them! (the top 3 minted are VA, CT, and NY)
