Will Canoe-Sick

Went for a walk and fell down in a snowbank. Those who know me well understand that this is in no way a complaint!

first holiday season after rescuing my dog, i got to thinking about whether or not she’d seen christmas movies before so i showed her some and here are her reactions: thread

I'd add (cautiously) that educators have to be very careful about passing blame on to our students. Sure, some mess up, some may even know better, but on the whole they have very little control over their circumstances — even less than we do! Understanding and correction, not blame, are called for.

I’m a whatever all by myself

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

We should meet them where they are but we shouldn't leave them there.

“They’re a real Kevin Bacon, but for history”

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Black bear
Probably a bobcat but maybe a mountain lion?!
Wolf
Deer (so many!)
Bald eagle

People generally seem to understand that "AI" is an avatar for capitalism in its purest and most rapacious form

graph from Graphite showing 'AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles' — shows ChatGPT launching just before 2023 and then shooting upwards as human articles shoot down

the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on

"We are living through precedented times."
- Historians

I had a great conversation with a librarian last year where she said the instability and general inability to reliably trace bots as a reference source are sort of a perfect storm. Students "research" w the tool, but repeating the search doesn't yield a stable output.

It’s cool that they let you use the like button on this website on a holiday

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.

$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.

Recalling that my freshmen composition professor had us write 500 word sentences as a way to practice making different kinds of sentences connecting ideas, and then meticulously checked every single grammatical choice.

An uncle is anyone who brings booze and a store-bought dessert to Thanksgiving (complimentary)

A theory: all Warren Zevon songs are Thanksgiving songs because Warren Zevon has big Uncle Making A Scene energy

I hadn’t heard The Highwayman in a long time and I forgot how insane Johnny Cash comes in at the end. You have three legendary country performers singing about being a highwayman, and sailor and a dam builder and then the closest thing country music had to the Voice Of God says “I FLY A STARSHIP…”

When I saw Arlo Guthrie in concert in 1997, he said the Library of Congress acquired a copy of ALICE’S RESTAURANT during the Nixon administration and that he believes that Nixon listened to “Alice’s Restaurant” exactly one time and that’s what accounts for the missing 18 minutes of the Nixon tapes

A defense contractor called “Strangelove”

My dad called an audible and is making ribs for his first Thanksgiving without my mom, the defense is in shambles

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

We made dinner for my mom and dad who aren’t up to it rn

(My brother is vegan and even though I’m the oldest he’s still the dominant sibling)

Tofu and shiitake mushroom medley flavored with “Thanksgiving turkey spices”; stuffing with carrots and baby bellas; pan seared Brussels sprouts; and a kale salad with roasted sweet potatoes, dried cranberries, and toasted walnuts.

The first Canoe-Sick brothers’ Thanksgiving Dinner was a success!

I think it makes it easier to digest too? That might be pseudoscience

Making a kale salad AND Brussels sprouts today. Everything’s coming up Willhouse!

It breaks down the cellulose (?) and makes it nice and tender in a salad!

Some patterns have to be broken. That’s the only way.

Nothing says Happy Thanksgiving like the fresh-lawn-clippings-esque smell of massaged kale