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Happy to help! 😃

My guess is that のに has an element of surprise or something unexpected happening. It’s not surprising or unexpected that a test one had to study a lot for was difficult. しても captures the “despite” meaning without implying that the result was surprising.

Clever!

I sense the beginning of a future manuscript. 楽しみにしています！

My mental to-do list now includes finding a Japanese translation of The Winter’s Tale to see how the “Exit, pursued by a bear” line was translated.

Ahh, I could do the sort of things you did with your friend all day. It’s such a treat to set others up to do good work. 😌

Hey @espn.com, are we still on for that Nuggets game tonight?

The weather is generally nice year-round in LA, so it’s always a good time of year to stand outside and yell at the sky!

Good luck! I was primarily a bus commuter when I lived in LA, and I found it pretty workable most of the time.

I rode the Flyaway earlier this year, and I think the trick is to board at its first pickup spot at Terminal 1 (Southwest terminal). You’ll be waiting on the bus for a while because the bus has to stop and load at each terminal, but the bus was totally empty when I boarded.

頑張って下さい！

I love stationary and office supplies, but I have to be careful to only buy what I’m likely to use. My favorite pens are Frixon gel pens because I love having vibrant colorful ink that I can cleanly erase. They’re also useful for embroidery - the ink disappears from fabric when ironed or blow dried.

The Davita building isn’t far from where this is, so my thought when I first saw it was that it may have been commissioned by them - who else would want a work that looks like a pillar of kidneys?

“Admin day” is a great idea! Especially for updates and tabs - it’s so easy to lose track of those things until they become a problem, which is usually the exact same time when I least want to deal with it. 😅

I tend to use single letters or colors (“red”, “blue”, etc) as placeholder names. The latter allows for unnecessary-but-fun use of matching colored pens if I need to draw/write something out as part of thinking about what I need to do in a process. 🖍️

I want to attend one in person, but the virtual experience has been pretty good! I appreciate the effort they’ve put into the virtual side of the event.

「ラブびます」…I keep giggling every time I say it!

I’ll bring Monsters!

I upgraded recently from first-gen AirPods to the new ones and I really like them! I sprang for the version with the noise cancelling option even though I wasn’t sure I’d use it, but it’s pretty good noise cancelling for a design that doesn’t plug up the ears.

Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences This classic text on multiple regression is noted for its nonmathematical, applied, and data-analytic approach. Readers profit from its verbal-conceptual exposition and frequent use of examples. The a...

There are some good suggestions here! My program used to use the Pedhazur (1997) text, but they switched to Cohen, Cohen, West, and Aiken (2003) after Pedhazur went out of print. I like having both on my shelf. www.routledge.com/Applied-Mult...

Did it say what the intended answer is?

A scammer recently called me and my parents trying to pull off a process service scam. The scammer had a list of my actual previous addresses. My folks didn’t fall for it, thankfully. I strongly suspect the deluge of scams in the last 5-10 years is a meaningful contributor to lower social trust.

I think everyone thought of this in grad school because everyone had an answer when this came up. An interesting variant emerged due to “Like the Elite Four?” being asked. The discussion immediately shifted to what Pokémon the different committee members would use in a doctoral Pokémon battle.

It has a better name, too. The original painting’s name is “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man), and one of the joke names for the post-restoration version is “Ecce Mono” (Behold the Monkey). Getting that joke the first time I heard it was worth the time I spent studying catechism as a kid.

From the Design Goals section: “1-indexed: Humans don't start counting from 0, only clankers do. You aren't a clanker aren't you?” 😂

I have a sub-folder in my bookmarks folder for data management resources named “F****** dates, how do they work?”.

I like to do this with Seinfeld episodes: “How quickly would the current dilemma be solved if they had cell phones?” It’s also interesting with media from the 2000s during the transition to widespread cell phone ownership (e.g., King of the Hill had an episode where the family got cell phones).

I remember being specifically warned against using this heuristic (except in the sense that anything else is an u-verb). Our teacher recommended practicing conjugated forms of verbs along with the plain forms while studying to help internalize the verb type, which I found helpful.

Yes! I write things down to remember them, but I also write to help me think. I think that’s why I’ve stuck with Obsidian for over two years now - it’s like having a physical notebook that can be searched and back-linked. It’s also low-maintenance, which is something I need for any tool I use.

I’m a fan of Obsidian. I haven’t tried it out yet, but there’s a new feature in Obsidian called “bases” that might scratch the tabular data itch if that’s why you mentioned spreadsheets. I plan to try bases out in Obsidian when I can set aside some time to play with it.