James M. Kaihatu

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Me: “How about a section of your favorite class at 8am?”

Prospective instructor:

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My advisor unwittingly formulated a four-step process for conference abstracts and presentations:

1) Dream
2) Write dream down
3) Send dream in
4) Make dream come true

I just submitted my abstract for AGU Ocean Sciences, so I am rocking this 75% completion.

I bought a new electric shaver. If this is a frequently asked question, it was certainly never asked by me.

A memento from my wife’s 2022 campaign for Comptroller. We don’t have the wall space inside so I tacked it to the back of a tool shed facing the carport.

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Sent my draft spring teaching assignments around for comments…

Gene Taylor was our representative when I was living in Mississippi. However you felt about his politics, you always got the feeling that he cared for the people he served.

Those days are, it seems, over.

I’ve always had a harder time extrapolating from the Yardbirds straight to Led Zeppelin. Maybe including the Jeff Beck Group in between might improve the best fit line.

This is a photo of a plant growing from one of the architectural elements of the Zachry Engineering Education Complex.

This is not a planter.

There just happens to be enough material collected on this beam to serve as a substrate for this plant.

First Millennium problems.

I spent most of today trying (and failing) to replicate something I did more than 30 years ago.

Oddly enough, it was the most fun I’ve had in a while.

It’s the humanities to which one turns to describe this article using words less problematic than “an unfortunate occurrence, like a fart in an elevator.”

“I also enjoy dinner…”

That’s me in the corner /
That’s me in the spotlight.

Thanks! I was part of the stage party, so had to behave and not steal glances on my phone.

I had the mortar board as well when I graduated. My wife got me approxi-regalia (close to U. Delaware colors) for Christmas once, and included the tam. The alumni association bought me a hood when I arrived.

Let’s rock…

Graduation this morning.

Reagan looks like a Sopranos character mere hours from getting whacked.

My swimming pool requires a password.

Google Gemini goes to grad school.

My dentist’s office is the same, complete with soothing waterfalls.

I’ll say that, for scientific purposes, this is huge. We’ve used drones for mapping coastal wetlands, and the line-of-sight rule slows down surveys.

Then again, these drones don’t moonlight as DoorDash couriers.

Bill Gates: Professors will lose their jobs to AI.

AI:

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Just got invited to join a band for a gig that just might require one of these…

…the Headless Thompson Gunner…

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

In the midst of a pandemic, the Trump administration and the American public demanded a vaccine.

Scientists rose to the occasion, producing them and delivering them to the people in record time, saving the lives of 3.2 million Americans.

RFK Jr. has just ended all funding for these vaccines.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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In “A Christmas Story,” Ralphie talks about how his old man was a master of profanity, and how there is a web of swear words still aloft over Lake Michigan.

Today I think the one I launched over Aggieland will rival it.

When I’m contemplating various career crossroads, I tend to listen to music from high school as a kind of comfort.

Still kicks ass.

I have a burner account that I use to follow some of my favorite people. Most of my iTunes purchases over the past few years have been recommendations from these accounts and I could not be more grateful.

Also - our local utility likes to use Twitter to announce planned outages.

YouTube video by Fire Department Chronicles Death from above: coming to an apartment building near you. #water #roof #pool

..and just like that, I have a new quiz problem for my Fluid Mechanics class…

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