I watched A FISH CALLED WANDA when I was maybe 8, which is insane. roughly the same age as my kid who has yet to get into non-animated movies.
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I watched A FISH CALLED WANDA when I was maybe 8, which is insane. roughly the same age as my kid who has yet to get into non-animated movies.
Why commute on wheels when you could commute on water
Yes, the ferryposting continues
sometimes the early ferry is a little boat where the upstairs is just a deck with a couple benches, so I sit up there for a nice breeze
This is the way, even with multiple inboxes. I set myself a 3x weekly reminder to look and that's it
(here's the posting) bsky.app/profile/mehr...
i just remembered that the guidance counsellor at my high school had this little plaque on her desk, facing outward, that read "your procrastination is not my emergency" seems relevant to several aspects of academia
this is only half a joke, there are many times when your rebuttal letter is simply pointing out that R1 has already addressed R2 by showing that they're wrong 💅
how to publish and/or get funded
tiny monday afternoon cortado in my kitchen window 💛
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
It's a solid commute, like, I actually prefer going to work than wfh in large part because of the trip back and forth
oop he's on leave for a year, @aidybarnett.bsky.social or @njtierney.bsky.social if you happen to have a good way to reach Tom could you pass along this inquiry please? 🙏
(i just found his email and reached out actually)
is Tom active on here? this has come up again in committee and it would be great to get a copy of this list if it's out there....
I would pay ten thousand dollars to somehow force all the expiry dates to align on, like, 1 July of the same year, so that I wasn't in a constant state of "ok, time to renew this other thing"
considering starting a side hustle of immigration advising because holy moly looking after 12 passports & residency visas for just my immediate family has taught me quite a few lessons
Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks
i like that these are super easy cleanup because the dough is pretty tight and dry so i just chuck it in the mixer for a few min to knead while making the rest of the meal
This is great thx!!
I adored those books as a teenager I should reread
However one spells it lol
I love kofte!!!
www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/b...
As a kid a family friend wrote for the Times book review and she asked me whether I'd read Harry Potter. I told her I didn't make it through the first book and that if she liked fantasy she should try Philip Pullman So she published a piece on the Golden Compass called "Harry Potter for Grown-ups"
Gorgeous, is this in the new Yorker? Don't think I've read
Anyway if you're making dinner to go with the pitas and are confortable with a stand mixer, it adds almost no prep time to make pitas fresh, you just knead and rise while cooking the rest and do the pitas last, just before the meal, and they're piping hot and gorgeous
She's amazing and somehow we ended up with JK Rowling instead of her :/
Lying down at the moment because I could not stop eating this meal omg
I made them a bit more flatbready style here but you can also roll out thinner and they'll puff up like crazy
Good timing I just typed it out in the thread above
My pitas: 150ml warm milk 100ml warm water 3 tsp instant yeast 2 tsp sugar Let the yeast activate then add 350g flour 1.5 tsp kosher salt Knead for 8-9 min, let double in size in a warm oven (~45 min), divide into six balls, rest for 10 min, and then cook quickly on a very hot griddle Perfection
One thing is that if you cook really at all, then fresh pita takes such little effort to make, and is so so so so much better than packaged varieties, so you should just stop buying it altogether
I was craving middle eastern food, which is harder to get in Auckland than you might think, so I made some instead Jerusalem style chicken on fresh pita and cardamom rice, tahini, lemony minty chopped salad, tzatziki Yum
"Sam are you subtweeting me" no bro I'm subtweeting ALL OF US
The optimal ratio is 20 emails sent to one reply, if my observational data reflect current trends
One think I'll say about academics: they love sending emails
Seems like a good thing to avoid if one has other plumbing issues, or is on a house serviced by a septic tank rather than a sewer, but I use a garburetor constantly and haven't had any problems..... Not a plumber ofc
What's the concern exactly? There's typically quite easy access with an undersink trap for any clogs near the sink, and if there's a clog farther down the line that's with much larger pipes than an interior drain, so not much coffee grinds can do farther down unless you've a bigger problem to handle
Grounds in disposal, jug and mechanism taken apart and run in dishwasher, was always my go to. Shouldn't cause plumbing issues at this scale unless there's a ton of hard grease in wastewater pipes (a problem anyway, if it's there)
(I study auditory perception and for every one of me there's like 75 vision science ppl) (they're nice, most of the time)
My constant gripe about cognitive science is that we study vision, action & haptics, sound, olfaction, and taste, in exactly that order and with fleetingly few labs and people as the list proceeds. So I honestly wouldn't be surprised if there are low hanging fruit of ideas to test on taste & smell
is this a joke it seems like a halfway decent hypothesis
found this one in an email from 2015 with a subject line that was just the name of the lab i was working in 😅
omg there are such universal grad school experiences in here hahahah
i just remembered WHATSHOULDWECALLGRADSCHOOL which preceded twitter as a hub for science-shitposting "peer reviewed. impact factor: to infinity and beyond" whatshouldwecallgradschool.tumblr.com last post was 8 yrs ago but many are still up, including this one I submitted in 2014 (accepted! yes!)
This is good advice
Have quit criteria. A proverbial line in the sand beyond which it isn’t worth it to continue and you leave. Mine was paying for my PhD. If I had to pay a single red cent, I would fuck right off back to industry
One wonders if they've ever visited a city with actual density and infrastructure
Ah yes, allowing residential buildings taller than two stories to be built is akin to death by firing squad there is no greater universal than NIMBYism and Auckland has gotta be one of the most absurd cities for it on the planet
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so how long do people spend on a new prep? Asking for a friend
I think when I exported my Twitter data it came with DMs, but not sure tbh.... are there any handles or keywords that you know appear in DMs which you could search your archive for?
because montréal has opted to follow in paris's footsteps, with massive investments in train and bike infrastructure, it's becoming one of the most attractive places to live and work in north america
For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. Chants share distinctive acoustic traits which have evolved culturally to optimize listener relaxation. 👇 new paper @pnas.org by ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab & Co #bioacoustics www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
busy couple weeks so i haven't thrown down in the kitchen much but for Saturday dinner I made a crowd pleaser of bibimbap (charred rice, ribeye, runny egg, fresh kimchi, pickled radish, cukes, carrots, ginger courgette, scallion, toasted sesame, garlic + gochujang sauce; fish cakes on the side)
Oooo nice
iirc the water/fluid one we had at 899 Main St had a bigass condenser in the back of the building, and the air cooled one looked like an ordinary AC-sized hvac looking unit. I think it was just way more efficient bc the old one was ancient. This was a decently sized machine, 40qt
I imagine they're all heat pump machines now or similar
Ah that's a drag when it's real hot out. One big change I remember from ages ago is that we had a fluid cooled Emery-Thompson for a long time which eventually switched to air cooled and the electric bill dropped like a stone
More suitable for a specialized journal
No room for a double door?
yea that too haha I imagine the consumption also has a lot to do with third variables like foot traffic in the walk-in, how much product is made, and what generation of equipment is in use I learned to spin on a White Mountain with a belt drive which meant making a ton of actual ice cubes, eek
I'm gonna wager that the "turn cream into ice" chunk of the electric bill is the largest one, reeses cleanup be damned
I retract my prior tweet it's just the first episode of s2 that is lame, rest of the season is good so far
i am once again asking anyone using the phrase 'the best and the brightest' to look up what this actually refers to
whatever it was, it was greasy
Hilarious. It's a good box! (this was for ordering a bottle of our usual olive oil from Martinborough and they have upgraded from, like, scotch tape and newspaper to an actual box
Lol today I learned that kiwis send enough bottles of wine around that there is a standard Wine Box available at our post offices
I mute the name of the current US President and it really helps to avoid this app being us-politics-only
Tbc this sentiment is true of writing in all languages, including English
You don't really want to know the answer here
and I guess most of all how everybody working in the place has some absolutely insane backstory, I just really loved that about the people I worked with in foodservice
omg that moment when they cut to carmy the michelin-starred chef making a pb&j on white bread at home
the minor hatred of the front-of-house staff from the back-of-house, and vice versa; the small-business, family-owned vibe of "we'll just fix this shit ourselves" for *everything* including things one really should not fix without professional help
at toscanini's we had longstanding disagreements about what kind of masking tape and what kind of sharpie ink survived the freezer best; both topics come up repeatedly on this show
like the recurring gag about "jeff" is just so deeply the kind of fuck-you humor that every restaurant has
Helen Rosner did a review when it first came out and talked about the various professional-kitchen-shibboleths that turn up, honestly even in the episodes that don't work that well those hold it together for me, it's uncannily nostalgic even tho the places I worked were quite different to the bear
Oh dear
ok ok ok fine i was too quick to judge, s2 is dece
(sorry this is just enthusiasm for that movie)
SPOTLIGHT
Just had my third one of the day
I dunno who needs to hear this but it's August and the Gisborne oranges are still so goddamn good Prices have risen to $3.50-5/kg which is still a bargain for this top notch citrus You're doomscrolling; I'm orangeposting 🍊
'ugly' is the right word for all of it, yes
(but seriously it's absurd the least insane thing to do is rent a car at the airport and drive. amurica)
maybe my uncle can drive you, that's the fastest I've encountered lol
yeah it's nuts. I continue to be floored by how willing academics are to get in bed with these AI folks
an enormous number of journal articles were published before LLMs existed so publication agreements with authors can't have addressed AI use specifically. unclear whether this matters given copyright transfer, but I could imagine a suit about it, seeing as pub agreements aren't unlimited in scope
yeah agreed; given the law firm's interest in academic publishing (www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...) I wonder if next up will be a suit targeting journal articles
AI-adjacent people working in cognitive science should pay attention to this horrifying lawsuit about ChatGPT helping (encouraging!) a child to commit suicide
maybe i should give it another chance, i kinda zoned out in the first episode. really enjoyed the first season though !
every season of the wire is perfect richard
it was immediately obvious. sigh
god dammit, the second season really is not at all as good as the first
i am several years late to watching THE BEAR but holy hell, it is giving me chills of recognition from my restaurant days of yesteryear
It looks like the lawyers updated the form to accommodate foreign addresses. They also updated the text about the class action and it's not clear if it covers journal articles in addition to books. Even if it doesn't, seems to me it can't hurt to let the lawyers know you exist
Many folks have been filling out that form (myself included) but I wonder how the book vs article class inclusion is defined
