Chris

As a parent of a kid who would not listen to us when he was too hungry to make a decision, hearing it from someone else is so useful. Nice team work!

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Our son is an undergrad out of state an 11-hour drive away from home (and an hour drive to the airport when he flies home). I always suggest he let the professor know he'll be out if he will be missing class (and there are classes he won't miss for travel). Do students still do that? Am I just old?

Hypnotizing chickens

If I saw someone in a T-shirt espousing some of the things they say, I’d pass them by so why let them follow me?

I block people I don't know who follow me and have profiles/replies that I don't like the look of.

Yes! I work in a university library and I have to sometimes tell people that we cannot give them/help them/do for them what they want. Over the years I have learned that you have to walk a fine line between blunt and polite (and that it helps when they think they are talking to a guy).

I’m not sure Big Gretch can get past the paternalism either

Oh no!

Another time, then. It’s a good idea!

We used family surnames as middles for our kids and saddled the youngest with an apostrophe. He also grumps about it intermittently because some databases do weird things with punctuation.

Did you?

I was 100% in this camp and complained to a colleague who told me that if I searched our library catalog there would be a proxied link that would gives access without creating a new individual account. Maybe your institution has the same? It does suck I can't pass links along to others outside tho.

They’ve been doing it at Michigan since 2016. Google says it started for the Bills in 2023, but of course that could be wrong.

Unless we get lucky….

How can that have been 20 years ago? How did I get this old?

Put this in the Louvre

On his birthday, no less!

Same in Ann Arbor

None of us could get through the day without Arabic numerals

Alas

Shoulda gone to Plum

That must have been fun to research — what a wild moment that was. Also, nice rug!

The tiny stone lamb statues as grave markers! The headstones with angels carved into them! (I love old cemeteries, but man, they can hit hard.)

Ann Arbor, MI

Same! I was looking through our upstairs bookcase and we have so many books by authors who would never be mass market paperback nowadays. And of course the expected genre fiction.

That’s so sad

Not a surprise. People here get hot about roadwork that will be improving drains if it also happens to include adding bike lanes or a road diet or anything that isn't making it possible for more cars to go even faster.

YouTube video by KEXP Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

@averysafecat.bsky.social You have to admire the commitment to the theme.

But did they consider skiing instead?