Tim Ruback

a clattering of explanations...
a pretense of explanations...
a mob of explanations...
a frippery of explanations...
a shimmering of explanations...
a mustering of explanations...

I don't know what the right collective noun is here, but we can surely do better than scoops.

The Naming of Parts Today we have Strategic Vision. Yesterday,We had financial imperatives. And tomorrow morning,We shall have what to do after firing. But today,Today we have Strategic Vision. The quiet girlAt the ba…

November on The Sphinx…

This is the Internationalisation Strategy. And this
Is the Impact Strategy, whose use you will see,
When you are assessed for REF preparedness.
And this is the Future Priorities Strategy,
Which in your case you have not got.

thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/07/t...

L: marinara base, mozzarella, pepperoni, roasted garlic, fresh basil R: garlic oil base, sharp cheddar, bourbon-caramelized onions, bacon, green apple, smoked sea salt, finish with maple syrup drizzle.

Made a couple really good pizzas yesterday: one kind of traditional and the other not so much. Descriptions in alt text

Watching Oppenheimer, in the moment of pure silence before the Trinity test, when the woman behind us just barely whispers to herself "boom."

Perfection. The rest of you saw a significantly poorer movie, through no fault of your own.

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy [Farrell, Henry, Newman, Abraham] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

As we all crawl through the Cloudflare slowdown, it is a powerful reminder that the international economy is not flat but built around key chokepoints. And those chokepoints are sites of vulnerability as well as opportunity.
www.amazon.com/Underground-...

Top 5 Movie Genres are:

- detective takes the case, finds moral ambiguity
- hey, it's the Mid-Atlantic Accent
- don't ask about the plot; the cinematography is the point
- this one is also filmed in Monument Valley
- 70s paranoia

We've been celebrating the 2nd anniversary of Grover's gotcha day all this week. The trip to the beach today was a highlight. I swear I've never known a happier pup than my buddy here.

I get the sense that, with the exception of commonly-accepted ones, collective nouns can be whatever you want. Maybe what you pick highlights some quality of vampires that's contextually important?

A haunting...
A profanity...
A vein...
A hazard...
An infiltration...

...of vampires?

Grover, a 2yo 100lb blue merle great dane- German shepherd mix.

Obligatory photo of a very good boi

Text reads "hear me scream up to 45 seconds"

Also, I deeply identify with this chicken. I am him. He is me. He is us all.

A photo of a large toy chicken on a dining room table.

Tomorrow is Grover's gotcha day, and we're gonna be giving him a nearly 3' tall rubber chicken. Will the house survive intact? Stay tuned to find out.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History

Attention is understandably elsewhere this evening, but it's a good night up here too (DSA-backed $19 minimum wage passes in Portland as well)

Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too

Antivax is animal cruelty

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/s...

I feel like Moxie shouldn't be a good answer for this. I also feel like it's probably a good answer for this.

Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma Recipe Here is a recipe for an oven-roasted version of the flavorful street-side classic usually cooked on a rotisserie It is perfect for an evening with family and friends Serve with pita and tahini, choppe...

This recipe is excellent. I love sheet pan recipes. Accessible for these working parents.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...

OMG best recipe in the whole of the NYT cooking web. We make it regularly in the winter. With double the onions tho'

Another way of looking at it: if the suggested cooking time is right, then that's only one clove per minute-- which seems awfully slow to me.

Grover's a VERY high energy pup. And at 95 lbs, that's a lot of zoomie puppo. So, when we really need him to relax we've only found one thing that consistently works: watching Chinatown. I don't understand why this calms him, but I'm glad for it.

Love it! Thanks again for sharing!!

Very cool, thanks! TROY strikes me as SO interesting in that context, almost contrapuntal to If I Ruled; the hyperspecificity of the one against the bigger-canvas commentary of the other, yet with several points of convergence...

This is just great stuff.

Very cool assignment!!

Can I ask: I'm always interested in the outliers with these sorts of things. Were there any unexpected, out-of-left-field ones that the student(s) did a great job contextualizing?

A reminder that nominations for the @intlethics-isa.bsky.social Emerging Scholar Award are still open. If you are, or you know, a fantastic early career scholar in international ethics send their name to rwscc@st-andrews.ac.uk.

@isanet.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @ethicsjournal.bsky.social

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

I genuinely unironically love the Standells. Some great garage-y songs on that first album.

Q: What's your biggest concert flex?

A: Morphine @ Central Square World's Fair (06 June 1999) -- last ever show in the US. You can actually stream it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncmT...

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title:

Tom Clancy's Oh, The Places You'll Go!

I've lived this scenario and tried to rig up all manner of contraptions to trigger the sensor -- pulleys! mirrors! foam darts! -- and nothing worked well enough. Then one of my favorite students asked me why I didn't just bring in a lamp.

Grover is refusing to come inside without his stick.