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Happy monday, folks 📷

Photo of minivan with a blown radiator
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🎥 Woodie is a good puppy!, YouTube

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Lot of folks ask, how hot is it in Arizona? Well, it’s nard to say. I mean, you get used it. But…

Screenshot of iPhone overheating warning.
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🎥 Turning the Tables on AI, iA Writer.

I like the idea of getting the AI to ask the writer questions for clarity; I suspect many of my students will find that useful too.

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Your periodic reminder not write and edit your own wikipedia page. It’s just bad form.

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You guys! I don’t pickleball is coming in Spring 2024.

Photo from June 2024 of a sign for a pickleball court “coming spring 2024”
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44 rotations around the sun. (It was yearerday, but I always give D-Day pride of place, especially this year, 80 years since.) I have this running joke with the kids that I’m 100+my real age, hence the numbers on the cake.

Portrait of author with his four kids and a birthday cake.
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🎥 Jocko on 80-years since D-Day, YouTube

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📰 More than 200 mayoral candidates have been killed in Mexico during this election season, WSJ (ungated link)

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Maryland High School Seniors Prank Town Into Thinking a New Trader Joe’s Is Coming.

GOAT

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🗞️ NCAA 2.8 Billion dollar settlement will pay college athletes directly. WSJ

Long-time coming. Probably bad for college sports, but justly over due.

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Monday vibes

Wide angle crop of children playing in a splash pad
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Sunday vibes.

Wide angle photograph of Chase Field, a baseball park.Young boy cheeringPhotograph of father and son after a baseball game

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I was in Washington earlier this week. The view as we left in a light rain and fog was splendid.

Photograph from an airplane window of the Washington Monument surrounded by clouds.
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Perils (and joys) of homeownership. 25+ year old oven finally dies, 4 years into my ownership. But the 25+ year old cabinents were not built to spec, and required some attention to fit the new one. (The new one cooks much better.)

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It arrived early! @ayjay did a marvelous job. Beautiful layout, typography, binding. Looking forward to a good slow read of it just as classes and the hectic pace of finals ends.

Photo of W. H. Auden’s Shield of Achilles, a new edition published in 2024.
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I finally pre-ordered Auden’s Shield of Achilles, back in print thanks to the hard work of @ayjay — it is top of my summer reading queue.

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Finished reading: Nation Builder by Charles N. Edel 📚

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Finished reading: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck 📚

(Finished in January, but didn’t realize I had not yet moved it over.)

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Finished reading: The American War in Afghanistan by Carter Malkasian 📚

A flawed book, but comprehensive overview of the entire war. Recommended, esp if you’ve read other books on the subject.