Paul Vierthaler

And here I am, having to buy a new printer every time I want to print something at home

YouTube video by RonSwon ImageWriter II Printing

The sound of my childhood.

I was turning in dot-matrix printed papers, faithfully output on continuous feed paper, through the end of high school in 2001.

I don't think my dad retired his ImageWriter II until it was 15+ years old
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Watching pairs skating, as a lady gets flung spinning into the air, one of the four-year olds shouts: “Daddy, pick me up so I can do what she is doing!” Girl, I love the confidence, but I’m pretty that would be the end of both of us.

Our junk food of choice at the time: cocktails and Cheetos

Our conversation last night: “nothing beats eating junk food while watching other people work out!” “Hell yeah”

I'll echo a lot of these responses: we got a fish-turner last year and it has changed my life. I will never get another kind of turner

For sure. Most of the table-top gaming groups I've known over the years have been pretty good about this, but they still tend to skew male. Poker games, on the other hand, can be bleak

It probably wasn't intentionally exclusionary, but those friendships structured and shaped lives, and eventually careers. And people tend to think of their friends before former colleagues...

Multiple seemingly innocent situations really do fit this mold. An example: I remember dudes who used to go out for cigars after work back in grad school. They rarely invited women because they didn't think women liked cigars.

And how many missed opportunities because women are (rightly) warned away from certain prestigious people and places. I can say from my own career and observations of friends’ careers that this happens frequently but is rarely discussed.

And also looks like an incredible course

I'd file this one in the all-time hall of fame of class names!

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

It makes me think back on how unaware of my privilege I was when I was exploring grad programs: I didn't even think about this sort of thing, but many of my classmates HAD to.

It is extra gross that he is pretending to not know why people are upset by this. He knows, he just doesn't give a shit.

"This how men behave." NO IT IS NOT. Not once in my career have I offered a description of someone's appearance, nor I have I ever been asked. WTF. This dude should not be teaching. And we ask ourselves why women fall out of fields like CS, as if it is a mystery with guys like this out there

FIRED? Who gives a fuck about “fired”?!? How about “send them to jail for life”? And I mean ALL of ‘em.

I do like to keep an eye on things via @paularcurtis.bsky.social 's incredible jobs data project (prcurtis.com/projects/job...), which paints a dismal picture.

Ugh, how depressing. That's about it as far as what I am aware of, but I wasn't paying super close attention. I think there were a few language-focused TT jobs (Emory), but there was basically nothing.

Also, LinkedIn clearly not at all designed for the vagaries of the academic job market. There were maybe been four TT jobs in my field this year. And no, LinkedIn, just because the job title is the same, I am NOT qualified to teach marketing at a business school.

Screenshot of a linkedin email with a job posting for Texas A&M assistant professorship

I think the fuck not

A true classic

It is originally a PS4 game, but Journey runs on PS5 and a magical experience.

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.

Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

Can’t believe the government headed by a man who sexually abuses children, who had all of their technology led by a man who sells CSAM for profit, whose first act was to nominate a child sexual predator for AG, is now publishing CSAM.

We all love Chotiner making his clever little remarks but he has been on a run of feeling so (correctly) disdainful of his subjects that it’s bordering on him going

Chotiner: so you’re just a big piece of shit aren’t ya?

Doug Warcrime: I guess so

Chotiner: seems that way

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

The dude was a convicted sex offender and famous as a pedophile as of 2008! It wasn’t a hard thing to know! Shunning him was easy!

450mg of Benadryl????? I would sleep into the 2040s