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  Some days you can buck the senior-faculty stereotypes and some days you... can't... First, I give a midterm and don't have to provide a single clarification to the class. Then, I am unable to print the sample solution (or anything else) for the grading session, so I lean on the front-desk staff to do it for me from a thumb drive. (To be fair, this is surely related to a power surge on Friday that the building is still recovering from. But still.)

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  Student: Is this class curved? Me: What do you mean by curved? Student: I don't know.

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  The autotester for some student code still involves 10-year-old cruft from the MOOC that is doing all sorts of crazy must-never-fail-or-diverge things we really don't need. So two tests were hitting the 1-second timeout when there's no reason for them to take even 0.1 seconds. This would be a great opportunity to simplify things and rip out the stuff we don't need. I bumped the timeout to 3 seconds and it's working now.

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  The government may have declared the pandemic is over, but Trader Joe’s isn’t giving out free tastes.

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  It's a career stage I guess... As I got around to a bureaucratic task that should take an hour or a bit less, I thought of a way to do it more efficiently. I went to the directory where I put such work and discovered ... ... I came up with the more efficient way last year too.

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  As those of us on the quarter system finally celebrate the triumphant end of the academic year, we celebrate as only senior faculty know how: By scheduling the backlog of doctor, car, and home appointments.

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  The hardest optimization problem I can think of is what size cooler(s) to buy.

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  I just received a notification about a dumpster fire on campus. Except literally.

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  I know LLMs are causing the most jaws to drop and all, but I just turned my home printer on for the first time in a month and pressed print and it worked.

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  @wilbowma @koronkebitch @JonathanAldrich Strong agree. A judgment (sorry, no 'e' from me) is a relation. Which relation is defined by the collection of corresponding rules.

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  Gmail snooze has forever changed Monday 8AM for me

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  Self-discipline in my 20s: I should get to bed before 1AM Self-discipline in my 40s: I should not eat lunch before 10AM

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  I would like a Google Calendar feature where I can: * create a set of calendar entries * mark them all as tentative * from any element in the set I can: * view the set * delete all elements of the set * delete all elements of the set except this one which is now no longer tentative

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  Just received my ebook version of Allen School alum Jared Moore's novel The Strength of the Illusion. Check it out! https://ergal-press.square.site/product/the-strength-of-the-illusion-ebook-preorder/3

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  Does anybody know why the article / conference paper "Be Careful What You Code For" by Danah Boyd has disappeared from https://points.datasociety.net/be-careful-what-you-code-for-c8e9f3f6f55e and google isn't finding another copy? I, uh, assigned it to 85 students this week. :-) I'd rather not resort to the Wayback Machine if possible...

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  Crypto means cryptography again, right? Right?