Kelly Christensen

The example introduces many complexities, but if they’re understanding the basics they’ll ask about them, i.e. some will know why a phone no. can’t be a contact’s primary key (maybe they have their mom’s cell & work number in her contact)

And the example is something they use everyday.

Yes! Thank you! 🙏 I’m even more excited now for the new adaptation.

For a broad-brush overview with student’ phones:

- You have your contacts list (let’s say the phone no. is primary key, but in real life it isn’t for obvious reasons)

- You have your group chats, with people from your contacts list.

- Your group chat has messages (rel. with 1 contact and 1 chat)

Am I missing something, or is Helen of Troy not even really part of the Odyssey? Her husband Menelaus, sure. But in what Odyssey sources does she do anything? She’s def a fascinating character (way more interesting than Penelope) I’m just surprised.

Homeric Greek nerds 🤓, please help me out.

Of course, I’m the first to call out United’s own inconsistent and underwhelming performances this season. But we actually did our job at the Emirates last week. 💅

City and Villa, neither side won their easy match today… It’s like everyone is conspiring to be terrible this season, in order to gift Arsenal the title. When the gunners lift the trophy, it’ll be because the quality of the League, excepting them, was as poor as Villa losing to a 10-man Brentford.

Djokovic is so old. This is just so hard for him. Especially after staying up late a few days ago.

- BBC commentators (who are not wrong!) talking about a 38-year-old

Screenshot of Fantasy English Premier League squad selection from the app. Ekitike earned 13 points but he’s on the bench

🎵Regrets… I have a few…🎵

Well, I ended up doing a different irresponsible thing: refusing the Wild Card and making 1 regular transfer, betting on Bournemouth keeping a clean sheet against Wolves today.

I’m currently winning our fantasy league, “loser does the dishes,” by 13 points. Can’t mess this up.

“with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal,” really got me. 😂 Tomorrow’s my creative writing day and, honestly, I’m inspired. Also this:

“Candlelight and black tie and my creative vision,” she says, as though listing the ingredients in a cauldron.

Me this week:
🎵 Wild Card
*dum, dum. dum, dum.*
You make my team good.
You make everyone leave.
Wild Card, I think I love you 🎵

Me the day before decisions have to be made:
I don’t know, maybe I’ll just keep everyone.

Me tomorrow, an hour before kickoff:
😰 [frantically making all the transfers]

The ultimate validation. 🥰 Thanks, I needed to hear that today

I’d guess the 2nd because of how repetitive it is. The melodically static, syncopated parts make me feel like it’s an important lyric whose setting was more focused on clarity and the naturalness of speech than melody… Though that could be reason for it to be the verse… But I’m gonna go 2 is chorus!

Disappointing of course, and I hope he keeps in good health and spirits during the recovery.

But I’m also evergreen hopeful that we can adapt the squad this time. Make smart choices, set people up to play to their strengths, and make full use of who is fit. I hope the new coach figures this out.

What stats do we want rn? 😁
- this is the first time in 121 matches that Arsenal have conceded 3 goals
- this is their first home defeat in 9 months
- this is United’s first comeback win at Arsenal since Feb. 2005
- there’s a non-zero chance my voice will be hoarse at work tomorrow

Manchester United do not need a The Crown- style series. If a tv show must be made, if someone absolutely needs that money, may I suggest a Succession-like dramedy about the Glazers’ 20+ years of ownership. The debt, the mismanagement, the degrading quality of football, the protests. The drama 🎭

Coming up on 8 years in France, 5 years working full-time in a Francophone environment, and my English has gotten worse. I’m now more likely to misspell a homophone than not on the first try.

How much worse will it get? Their must be a sealing.

There are two funny things about living in the north of Paris:
1. You’re instantly notified when there’s a goal in the AFCON final
2. It’s impossible to tell if it was for Morocco 🇲🇦 or Senegal 🇸🇳

Hope everyone has a good night!

And now there’s another 30 minutes of extra time to play through! How is anyone gonna focus after all that?

I watched a new movie I ended up not liking, instead of the AFCON final. Ending the weekend with a big mistake.

Typical United fan over here. We win one game today and I’m like, I think we could win the title. #MUFC

If they rehire Ole Gunnar Solskjaer between now and the end of January, I’m going to need some time to either brainstorm the right analogy to express my frustration or just time to be speechless and really, really annoyed. 😑 The men making these personnel decisions are too emotional. It’s chaos.

That flailing monarch’s desperate act of war in the last weeks of his reign lead to a lot of human suffering throughout the century-long occupation/colonization. And today, almost 200 years later, France-Algeria relations are still very challenged because of that action and actions stemming from it.

Charles X pushed French forces into Algeria in June 1830 because he was losing political support at home and annexing Algiers had been a long-term foreign policy goal for some French politicians. He’d hoped conquest would rally support for his reign. He was ousted weeks later in the July Revolution.

Three of the last six Premier League Manager of the Month award winners have lost their jobs ☠️

I ate a chocolate covered cherry someone had set in the part of the office where we normally put things to share, and now I’m panicking.

There are so few people in the office today that, if it wasn’t meant to be shared, it’s unlikely the suspicion won’t fall on me. I’m probably suspect no. 1 🙈

I get this. We felt like their goals were quite lucky (always a perfect finish, whereas we struggle finishing), but I see your way too.

On the bright side, United never gave up. They always played like they wanted to win. From minute 1 to every conceded goal, they never switched off. Great to see!

Every time I read/hear about Keir Starmer, my stupid brain goes to Kier Eagan. That’s never been helpful, but it is usually fun to suddenly reflect on Severance lore instead of whatever the news was talking about.

Graphs showing authors from the Norton Anthology receiving checkout spikes after their death.

Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.