He looked like he was really concentrating on trying to do the pat-your-head rub-your-tummy maneuver.

Or Bagdad Cafe

and to think I was ready to say, fine, your cowboys can win.

P.S. If you watch it, you have to watch the version narrated by John Cleese, not the one narrated by Jack Black (which, sadly, I think was the commercially released version).

Yes to everything you said.

My #wrongtakeaway? She has 24.8K followers and follows 30K (usually an automatic mute from me), and she comments on this post that this is the most interaction she's gotten on bluesky. 66 comments, 198 likes. So clearly just having replies open isn't enough. 😂

I'm firmly in the no chatgpt camp. Let's support students with challenges in better ways. Thanks for engaging on the topic, though, I think it's important.

And I forgot to say earlier, "I hope you had a good weekend."

😂 She has anxiety, was heading out the door to school, and was already queasy because she'd made plans to play jazz with a peer (her trumpet; him piano). It would've taken her an hour to choose how she wanted to phrase any pleasantries. Usually, she does spend an hour composing emails (no chatgpt).

Heh. My daughter got an email from a professor this morning trying to set up a meeting with her. He'd said "I hope you had a good weekend." She asked me if she had to return the pleasantries. I said no, she could just reply that 4pm works for her.

Yes, exactly. I have made some tasty rice salads with ginger and various vegetables.

I toss some arugula in a little balsamic vinegar and top the pizza, and find that makes it palatable.

For me, the struggle is hot gluten free pasta = good; cold gluten free pasta = eating paste.

Back when teens hanging out in malls was still legal, there was a little sandwich stand in ours that had cherry cola on draft with crushed ice. You've reminded me of that small joy from my youth.

There's a special spirit to the beauty of the North Carolina mountains. The first time I visited, I was ready to move there.

One of my few 100-mile bike rides was to visit a friend. When I arrived, she had tortilla chips and a salsa that had fermented. In this emergency situation, I mixed up ketchup & mustard to dip the chips in and it was one of the best meals I've ever eaten. 😂

I swear I remember whichever newscaster it was (Peter Jennings?) seeing flags start to sprout warning us not to go all in for jingoistic nationalism, and by the next day, such comments were forever banished.

So many funny people. I was lucky to be along for the ride.

came here to say this, and also, it's just further disrespecting of WNBA athletes: "oh anyone can play in the league, even septegenarians."

My dad got me some birks 30+ years ago. I never wore them because I'm not a hippie. ~10 years ago my daughter started wearing them because we couldn't afford new shoes. Turns out they'd become cool.

Heh. I once gave someone a birthday card I'd made, and I misspelled "birthday." The person had so much confidence in my intelligence, they were sure it was some clever joke I was making.

When I see you wrote "conglation," I figured it's a word I need to look up!