Charlie Baker

I'm 100% not biased in favor of keeping it on the 21st. No reason in particular aside from the sheer coincidence. Not that it happens to land on my birthday or anything like that. Nope.

Also shoutout to another October birthday, it really is the best month!

I mean, Senator Palestine was appointed to his role of Chancellor by a vote from the Galactic Senate.

So therefore he is not an Emperor.

I mean, Jimbo got $75 million from Aggie boosters to retire early. I guess they figured he can afford his own membership at that point.

I just got through reading your newsletter! Some of those free perks on top of the multi-million dollar salary are pretty sweet.

Do you know if schools have to keep paying for the country clubs and restaurants if they fire a coach without cause?

It was a quality loss against an SEC team. They won't drop out of the Top 10. Heck, they may move up a spot or two.

You spoke the algorithm into exsitence.

I once saw a video from Portland of a man on a unicycle wearing a Darth Vader helmet and playing the Imperial March on flaming bagpipes.

Scary times indeed. What's next? A sousaphonist on a penny farthing bike? A tympanist on a trampoline? A xylophonist on a zebra? Where will all this madness end?

No love for Josta or Surge?

Missouri begins sweating furiously in the corner.

Glad to see the Guardians finding success. Maybe they can offer to share a motivational podcast or two with the Rangers.

I paid for a transcript evaluation when applying for graduate school to be sure all of my credits would transfer. It was the same school as my B.A.

I also had to pay for a credit outline in which someone copied the courses I needed to take from the graduate catalog onto a piece of paper.

Agree completely. It doesn't make financial sense to upgrade their stadiums plus pay an additional $5 million (?) + conference exit fees to play in C-USA. Even the MWC as it is now wouldn't be that big of an upgrade.

Regular season IS the tournament. Lose and go home. You don't play the rest of the season and have to wait next year to try again. Yes this means that roughly 68 teams are done after Week 1, but if we want to crown a championship based on a perfect season this is the only reasonable way to do it.

I have more newsletter subscribers than this and I write about shit like ASUN expansion candidates

It was more about mocking the Coast-to-Coast P4 Conferences, because Stanford at Va Tech as a conference game makes about as much sense as UCLA at Rutgers for a conference game.

Other reasons to appreciate FCS Football:

• Conferences based on established, regional rivalries

• No multi-million dollar players sitting for millions *more* in cash.

• Championship teams decided by on-the-field results and not the broadcasting networks.

🤔 ... I could just give them all a 100. That way I wouldn't have to see them back again. Then I could watch the video without a guilty conscience.

*looks at stack of papers that need grading*

*Opens Nebula*

😇 - Grade now, watch later.

😈 - Watch the video now.

*Saves video for later*

(Even though it is likely much more interesting than grading papers)

Good thing we can just flip a switch and start manufacturing here in the United States. Surely we have the factory infrastructure and raw materials!

Also, I'm glad to see companies committing to paying higher wages as a result of no longer having to compete with SE Asia for manufacturing.

Or people who reply with a :thumbs-up: emoji when you propose a meeting time.

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Yep. Comes to class once a week. Headphones on watching YouTube the entire time. Leaves early.

"Hey, none of the stuff on this test was stuff we went over in class!"

-Student who earned a 27 on his quiz

I know your pain all too well since the former Gov. of MA / current NCAA Commissioner and I share a name.

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Can I just lump "all Christmas music played at retail stores" into one all-inclusive post?