Dr Ben Wolfe

Figure out ways to torment Phil and company FOR THE KIDS

I usually buy them drinks. I'll be travelling that weekend and won't be able to find entertaining torments for them

You're welcome!

"What if Hapsburgs but MORE"

Is this a suggestion?

I was also thinking about the potential for unseen risks - jet wash, blind spots around aircraft and other vehicles

As someone who studies exactly this corner of visual perception and driver behaviors, I agree entirely.

Although I’ve never even thought about airfields… (my work focuses on noncommercial passenger vehicles).

I bet there’s interesting questions to be asked about *how* drivers drive on airfields.

Yeah, the “I care too much” problem is real

Research Faculty Life...

Looks at a call for grant proposals.
Looks at the application form.
Weighs "is this amount of $ worth the effort"

A Strategic Error

Between it and a massage gun, my lower back went from "pissed" to "ok, you did dumb things, but we're cool"

White and tabby cat on his back clutching a depleted churu.

Your regularly scheduled indignity

That said, if anyone knows of suppliers for Vibiemme / VBM parts in Canada, let me know.

In Coffee Madness, it’s handy to think “oh, I should replace my 8.5mm head gasket” and be able to turn up a spare when all of the part suppliers local to me are out of stock.

It’s absolutely a real thing - I used to walk past the spots for Chemistry when I was a grad student.

Back on my tart bullshit

OK, I'm really, really glad I have the Chirp wheels (at @rahaeli.bsky.social's suggestion a while back).

I've been framing photos all weekend, which has meant sitting on my home office floor, and my lower back was just a little irked about it.

A few minutes with the 6" wheel and it's much happier

Nectarine tart, pre-baking

This entire weekend has been “why do it when you can overdo it?”

Let’s see if I can manage a simultaneous cooking and baking project…

And another sixteen - four 30 cm x 40 cm and twelve 31 cm x 43 cm (sized to fit the mats the frames came with) done.

I call that a good weekend's work.

My back has opinions.

It's a running joke at UTM for colleagues to pull up (with permission!) pictures of colleagues' kids when they came in to be participants

Did six of those, and a couple small (21 x 30) and that was enough for today

I remember being brought in to 9.00 at MIT as an example around age 4-5

I learned the hard way a couple years ago that I really shouldn’t go and Professor the day after getting both.

YouTube video by NoCut Entertainment Storm Seeker - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) [Official Music Video]

Splutter.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_HV...

I mean, keeping this one running takes some effort these days, but a good replacement would cost me $2k+

Printed and framed eleven 60 cm x 90 cm prints this afternoon.

On to the 50 cm x 70 cm ones

I’ve dodged it for a decade now… but that’s because the first five years were back at the synagogue I grew up in, and the most recent half-decade has been “not sure if we’ll be here long-term, so let’s not put down roots yet”

As we now know we’ll be here longterm, I give it a year before committee.

I told a friend a couple days ago "my printer is older than your [teenage] kids"

Which is true. Comrade Printer was manufactured in '06

It's fun when you can buy 60 cm x 90 cm frames for $20...

...since our home printer (a venerable and still excellent Designjet 130) prints 24" (61 cm) wide

The paws pop out, Fiasco