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buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: how lucky, severed, the Eighteenth Brumaire, laissez-faire dogmas, dog stew, the thing behind the dumpster, probably

observablehq.com/d/c8fafa2b342 retrofitted an observable demo that did a neat trick with generating isolines to accept arbitrary geojson files--it's hella slow but I think it will make for some nice plotter drawings. this one is probably going to be a little gift for a friend who just had a kid whose middle name is, I am serious, California

Listening to the audiobook of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger and a little disappointed she doesn't do a silly voice for Other Naomi

My downstairs neighbor is learning to play the cello and honestly I love it, so cute to hear the little scales very proud of u neighbor

the orc from LOTR who said "looks like meat is back on the menu" would have loved The Bear

teaching engineering ethics update: reflecting on this week's reading a student noted "socialism seems doomed to fail under human nature" so guess we've got a lot of work to do lol

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: hardship, most mighty, only, from Wales to chili night, death flavored, a season of death, druid email, as it turns out

I did it anyway but I feel kind of like a faker signing onto the strike Germany campaign because like, the last time I got invited to do an art thing in Berlin was probably 2019?? I'm a washed up has been baby, is it solidarity or just irrelevance

Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/
http://www.techmeme.com/240119/p24#a240119p24

The cascade of Means Girls promotion on my IG feed is only confirming my beliefs that Renee Rapp has the range to play both the Tridentarius twins from The Locked Tomb books

testing out a pipeline of STRM data to STL to plotter.vision's SVG renderer, gel pens can be a little hit or miss but overall promising I think?

update: this was partly my own fault I shared the wrong link to the doc and no one told me lol

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haha love the part of organizing a group effort where you set up the google doc, start writing the project proposal, share the document, leave some open questions because people said they'd pitch in, and then receive suggested changes to the document via group text

tonight's my first class after like 5 years of not adjuncting in person and I have to remember that undergrads are like spiders: more afraid of me than I am of them

Ramsey just said "oh my god" in a very shocked voice while in the bathroom and I was worried like he had found a cancer lump or lost a tooth or something weird and bad but when he came out of the bathroom he said he just found out there's a new season of Big Top Burger

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.