Jess Nevins

I've said this here before, I'm sure, but--it would either have been the Armenian family were a little too exuberant after the assassination of the Turkish consul general in Boston in '82, or the former Mob accountant who got the fish thrown through the window & the car blown up before testifying.

...I suddenly remembered gossip about her marriage to Tom Cruise and gossip (that led to a lawsuit) about their need for an intimacy coordinator on the set of Eyes Wide Shut and gossip about her relationship with Lenny Kravitz....

Ahem.

"We come to this place...for magic.
We come to the marital bedroom to laugh, to cry, to care.

Because we need that, all of us,
that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim.
And we go somewhere we've never been before;
not just entertained, but somehow reborn.
Together."

President Trump's fifth term in office

That's what it seems like to me, yeah.

Thank you very much for posting that--I'm spreading the word here, because nobody knew that.

The prof, I mean. The ebook reader was not a program I've ever seen before and not one the school uses, so it must be the professor's.

Sigh.

Oh, this is bad.

"Three other images often associated with Antichrist are the "little horn" in Daniel's final fision, the "man of sin" in Paul the Apostle's Second Epistle to the"

Reading up on the Antichrist--who knows, it might be me--and saw this bit about the "little horn."

a) We know it's not Stewart. #letterkenny
b) Greta Thunberg can't be the Antichrist, Thiel, you utter turnip, the Antichrist is a guy.
c) Men with little horns were born that way

This looks interesting:

www.proquest.com/openview/031...

It's not a library ebook. They may have paid for it themselves, I don't know.

Yowch!

We're required to watch the video.

There are people who are simply not suited to doing narration. They have the wrong voice, or mannerisms or tics, or phlegmy lungs, or a stop-start delivery, or t h e y s l o w d o w n andthenspeedup.

Or they have all of those, like the guy I have to listen to now.

Oh, for closed captioning!

Today, sadly, I am not, for today I have to listen to 33 minutes of Information Security Awareness Training narrated not by a professional, but by one of our IT guys.

Someone thought getting one of our guys to narrate would save money, apparently.

But what we got was an Erich Zann narration.

I am (as I mentioned yesterday) doing the required annual set of training exercises for things like cybersecurity & bloodborne pathogens & spreading Mycobacterium leprae among deserving students & such.

I thought I had the right to complain, yesterday. But that was yesterday, when I was innocent.

Will do, thanks!

Congratulations!

The ongoing process of 21st century conservatism embracing the postmodern approach to truth continues to astound me. I grew up soaked in Rockefeller Republicanism. Never, ever would have guessed that we'd end up here.

"Conversion therapy" my [obscenity deleted]. "Impartial court" my [obscenity deleted]. Just a bunch of [foul expletive deleted].

In happier news, I just heard a mother summon her children, who were Samson, Brutus, Cassius Clay, and Julia.

Admittedly, that's setting very high standards for your kids.

But in the 2020s naming your child "Cassius Clay" is a political act, and a good one. (Mother & kids are white).

Fair Use is a defense, not a pre-emptive strike.

(The program the ebook is being read in will only allow students to cut-and-paste *44* words, total, out of the entire book. Breaking copyright law is not good, and forcing students to break copyright law is actively bad, but limiting cut-and-paste to 44 words IMHO constitutes "fighting words")

And of course now I have to be the narc who tells the department chair about the professor.

Faculty who are reading this: please, *try* to be careful when you break copyright law. *Never* force the students to do so. And don't drag librarians into it.

In 2025 there is no excuse for a faculty member not knowing the basics of copyright law, and there's *really* no excuse for making students break the law to get a grade.

Sure, it's only copyright law, and you may think that worth breaking, but to *force* students to do it? Bad show, prof, bad show

In this case, the program that the students are viewing the eBook in is set up to prevent the pages from being printed. The only way to print them is to print screen captures. The professor did that and told his students to do that as well and turn in the annotated pages when they were done.

I don't so much mind being asked to violate copyright by students--most of the time they don't understand copyright law because nobody's ever explained it to them in a way that they'll understand--but I do mind faculty who violate copyright and tell students to do the same or they'll fail.

TIL that the modern use of "drone" dates back to 1936 and that the early history of unmanned aircraft is unexpectedly absorbing:

secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/c...

Right?