My son became a Bar Mitzvah yesterday (alongside his mom's mom)! He read from Genesis 1:1, & in lieu of a short talk he sang/played an 18-minute piano medley with songs to match the six days of creation. It was...pretty awesome! (He also played, separately, "As" on bass & "Eruption" on guitar.)

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every paper in a stack of papers—real or virtual—takes twice as long to grade as the paper before. By the end of the stack the time between papers is approaching infinity. I am typing this post because I should be commenting on the last few papers in this stack.

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This man on Jeopardy is extremely well dressed

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Jeopardy spoiler to follow: The woman who has now won two days in a row is extremely unassuming but totally confident in the categories she knows, and I adore her

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“Love Letter” was built by myself, @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social & @abbymullen.bsky.social, when they were grad students working on Viral Texts—for years was a great way to introduce people to the project—but rebuilding from scratch was always going to fall outside the window of time/funding/&c.

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