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@PaulDeFazio I haven’t listened to 99%In for a long time, but that is just the perfect topic for them. I’ll check it out.

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@gbosarge I get that, the power tools are out when I’m working on the house. Although as I’ve gotten better with them I’m surprised how often I find a very effective use for a handsaw or chisel on house projects.

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@tinyroofnail Actually, pretty sure it had to be in a basement to maintain the dignity of everyone else. It’s really just a bit too embarrassing to watch on the main floor.

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@tinyroofnail By the time I got to it I was almost 100% sure that link was for Thief in the Night (sing it with me 🎶 “We wish we’d all been ready!’). Also watched this in a church basement. Why always a basement?

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Fantastic post.

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Working by hand with a tool you made (that works perfectly) is just so satisfying.

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@JudsonGreene yeah boy!

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Happy that S.C. Bill 812 passsed and was signed into law making the “Idaho stop\" legal for bicyclists. This won’t change my riding much, but I will be breaking the law a lot less often.

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@jonah My wife discovered Dali’s religious works last year and we got really obsessed. Ended up ordering a copy of the book about his bible and really enjoyed it.

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@todd It sure does feel that way sometimes. Spending the whole day knocking to-dos off my list around the house felt good and real.

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@writingslowly It was a great experience. I take heart there are many more great books out there for me, I’ve never even heard of Helprin!

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Nice hike in the blue ridge mountains today. View from Lookout Rock outside Montreat, NC.

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@madaga The ending really did hit me hard. It’s a book I’ll be digesting a long time.

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@ablerism There wasn’t a lot of interaction, but that’s my guess. The English faculty are standing strong though!

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What I teach is pretty insulated (+1 for embodied skills), but it does seem to be wreaking havoc elsewhere and I see it when I assign written work.

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@ablerism kind of sums up our faculty meeting about AI last week. “This is terrible, ruining thinking and learning, and we absolutely can’t let ourselves get behind in using it.” I remain unconvinced.

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@bbowman Which reminds me….

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📚Finished Reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

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Just unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such an amazing collection of sentences and pages in one book.

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The hummingbirds are very late this year. Last year I saw my first one on God Friday (April 18). Just saw the first one of this year today.

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@manton I completely get this, but I will say the extremely low price barrier got me (and several people I invited) to join.

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A Little Casual Birthday Numerology: isaacgreene.com

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@jabel You’re just trying to make us all unsatisfied with our beans.

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@flotisserie Read this a few months ago. Whew, it’s a lot.

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@ReaderJohn Fields of Praise is all I’ve read, but it’s a huge collection. About 250 pages of poems. I read it 8 or so years ago and I’m finding even more in it the second time around.

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@ReaderJohn I’m about half way through her book _Fields of Praise. _ It’s remarkable, like all the potency of Toni Morrison distilled into poetry.

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@gbosarge his books Salt and Cod are absolutely fantastic. I’m slightly skeptical of that thesis too, but he does write a great microhistory.

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@davoh Love this. Always up for exercises that bring embodiment to the classroom.

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@todd If you haven’t tried, cold brew is one of the most forgiving ways of making your own coffee, you just have to plan a day ahead! In the summer I drink one and put the next day’s in so I always have one ready. Delicious.

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@ablerism I am so excited for what you’ll write about this (and congrats on the fellowship!).

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I’ll admit to becoming a little radicalized watching The Business of Being Born and talking with the doula for our first born. My sister in law has since given birth twice in Manhattan and that has just confirmed things! She was regularly asked when the birth would be, nearly everyone has them scheduled for either induction or C-section. Just waiting around to go into labor was considered odd.

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When I posted my grades (from Canvas) yesterday about 1PM I had no idea what a headache I was avoiding. A few hours later and I would be in such a pickle, solidarity with everyone locked out of their courses.

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An offline gradebook has been added to my to-dos for next year.

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Grades reported, closing the books on this school year.

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The Gift of Music: isaacgreene.com

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@cliff538 one of the things I love about my TWSBY Eco is that it’s pretty hefty (probably not as heavy as the brass, but a lot more than a normal pen). Definitely lets your hand relax.

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The University Administrator Power Gap: isaacgreene.com

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@bradleyandroos Either/Or is the only full work of SK I’ve read, but it made an impression (it was in a grad seminar, so lots of discussion and writing helped). I mostly remember getting cracked up on the bus reading the Diapsalmata.

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Finals Week: the storm before the calm.

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Nice spot for a gig. Beautiful day to drive up into the mountains with the windows down.

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@tinyroofnail this was also given to me with exactly that kind of gesture. Haven’t gotten to it yet but I will soon.

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@JohnBrady Thats right, I was playing with an e-bow (one string only) and lots of reverb. I wanted to mute as much noise from the other strings since the amp was pretty hot.

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The banjo with two thirds (a major and a minor) drove me crazy! I think I would go new standard tuning first.

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Thou shalt not let the fiscal year end with money left in your professional development budget.

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Lots here I’m excited about.

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A far cry from my normal rig, but we made some noise tonight.

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Sixty-eight degrees

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Evening bike ride on the trail

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Honeysuckle blooms

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I just learned that not only was the 2-hour marathon barrier broken yesterday, but the 2nd place runner also broke 2 hours, and 3rd place broke the previous world record. Of course, the women’s winner also broke the women’s world record.

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Must have been the perfect day for running.

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Good sounds from last week: isaacgreene.com

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Bob Dylan in the prophetic mode:

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All that foreign oil controlling American soil\nLook around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed\nSheiks walkin’ around like kings\nWearing fancy jewels and nose rings\nDeciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris\nAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

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Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters\nMasters of the bluff and masters of the proposition\nBut the enemy I see\nWears a cloak of decency\nAll nonbelievers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religion\nAnd there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend

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Been sick at home with the flu all day, but got some very good news.

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📚Finished Reading: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl.

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Raucous fun for both me and E all the way through (and much weirder than I remember it). The last time I read it I didn’t appreciate the send up of the president’s cabinet, but it is truly hilarious. And… Vermicious Knids!

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Ah, it is a glorious feeling to be done with class prep for the school year.

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Figured out to combine my two main hobbies (woodworking, espresso making) and use up some tiny rosewood scraps (from a broken piece on a danish table I’m restoring) with a little run of WDT tools.

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If you don’t know what this has to do with espresso I don’t want to ruin it for you.

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I read just about everything from L.M. Sacasas, but his latest in Comment is such vital writing on AI. Maybe the best single piece on the topic.

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Went into my classroom yesterday to find I had won a commanding victory in this informal poll of students. (Identities of my non-Amish colleagues protected). Must be how I manage to quote Wendell Berry occasionally teaching music theory.

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Train Thoughts: isaacgreene.com

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