Marc Kissel

Fifteen Years

I didn't think xkcd would hit me with all the feels:

xkcd.com/3172/

glancing around the room before my talk started and seeing you there made such a difference Robin. Thanks so much for being at the session & your kind words. And yes that paper is so wonderful at so many levels

Awesome! And sorry for delay. I'm running around all day but will get back to you asap. Sorry. Been a wild few days

Ah what sorts of info/what age? I'm trying to recall if there is a good summary of the morphology out there.

Hahaha...it did!

congrats to y'all! such a great piece!

Scene from the Simpsons. A mob of people are at Mayor Quimby's door... Assistant: Sir, there's an unruly mob to see you. Mayor: Does it have an appointment? Assistant: Uh... yes it does. Principal Skinner: I phoned ahead

Hopefully the unruly mob phones ahead to get an appointment

My daughters are telling me that they need to put a cold spoon under their pillow and 2 pennies on a windowsill in order to help it be a snow day. I never heard of any of these superstitions. Anyone know more of these? I'm intrigued 🤔....

My 10 year old hates it when I use gen alpha slang but this has rizz, no cap.

(Next someone needs to add a function that shouts out 7 anytime a 6 shows up)

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and then I need you to purchase some iTunes Gift Cards right now for me please. It is important and I can't call now.

every year at the time i am reminded that even though i have a Ph.D and was in school for many year i still can only remember how to spell Halloween by singing the "H-A-Double-L-O-W-Double-E-N spells Halloween" song to myself

Very cool! Congrats 🎉

For what it is worth, my time as a postdoc in anthropology at Notre Dame was amazing and foundational, and that was before Cara got there. Will be even more wonderful place to work now :)

Oh oh oh..

- Decision on your submission

Abstract deadline is today

Or

LMS down for maintenance

Oh this looks awesome! I was just telling students about your work the other day and I'm excited to read this. Congrats!

Houston Street in Manhattan

Photo shows nine small axolotl figurines that were 3d printed in pastel colors.

Rubber duck debugging might be the norm, but my students have upgraded to "3D printed axolotl Debugging" in our #Rstats course cause ya gotta embrace whatever joy you can these days (thanks to @jennakissel.bsky.social for realization that w/ 3d printer we could go all in here)

I'm currently watching Stranger Things with my 14 year old and been amused by their use of mouth breather in the show

this one hits hard. What a remarkable life and legacy

one thing i noticed is how so many of them are thinking of how they can make things better for others. They truly care and that makes our jobs so worthwhile

1000% this. I teach anthropology and all my classes (for majors and the GenEd courses) are full of students who make me generally excited about teaching and getting to work with them

Amazing show!

Hahaha... I guess once my daughter had a day where they had to dress as kids did during a decade *I* lived through I reached a certain point ;)

I'm showing my age here, but it was always a good day when the teacher brought the TV in so we could watch The Voyage of the Mimi!

Given everything happening right now, this video is so wonderful. I'm not always sure we deserve dogs but we are definitely lucky to have them in our world

Workday convo in anthro dept:

Colleague: how's teaching quantitative methods?

Me: well I wasn't allowed to call it "But I was told there's no math in this major" but otherwise going ok. Next week we will discuss if 43 is odd or just different!

Colleague: so you got the dad jokes covered, eh?

Hahaha....love it!

Homer Simpson at Flander's door. He has just rung the door bell and Flanders has opened the door. Homer says to Flanders "Can't talk now Flanders. I've got a class to teach."

Starting my 9th year at Appalachian State!

Jenna: ya know, there is always that one short story you read in school that messes with your mind. I remember this one we read...

Me: was it All Summer in a Day?

Jenna: yup

Me: yeah that sticks with you