James Smoker

The more I get asked questions about AI usage by students (and fellow admins), the more it feels like the “how far is too far” conversation at youth group.

27.08.2025 17:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Coleridge even wrote down what his posting would be like

20.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Women Talking
The Boy and the Heron
Pride and Prejudice
Song of the Sea
True Grit

28.06.2025 02:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two chocolate croissants, a coffee, and a lemonaid on a table in a cafe.

Two of the kids were at a birthday party today, so my oldest and I went to a cafe to treat ourselves too. Afternoons like this are wonderful.

14.06.2025 22:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fun to find another True Grit lover out there. Mine are,

1. True Grit
2. Fargo
3. No Country For Old Men
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. The Big Lebowski

04.06.2025 16:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats especially to Yangsze Choo for The Fox Wife! It’s a great read (and I may have a review of it coming up in an issue of Plough Quarterly).

04.06.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s June 3, so you know what that means. Finally remembering to make a car appointment to get the winter tires off 😎

04.06.2025 03:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Getting bullied by Mary in The Children’s Hour would be about as scary as the xenomorph coming after you too.

21.04.2024 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

18.02.2024 20:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My dissertation defence is tomorrow. When people ask what my favourite Coleridge poem is, I might say something like Christabel, Frost at Midnight, or Constancy to an Ideal Object. Those are all lies. This is my actual favourite poem of his.

18.02.2024 19:42 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0