Shoutout to Susan Rodger and all of her students at Duke University! The stream of Paypal donations to Runestone Academy over the past few days puts a spring in my step and a smile on my face!

apropos of nothing I think it is funny that all modern apps and editors have the command palette that is nothing more than a nice gui wrapper around the emacs command apropos-command which has been with us for decades!

Oh man, did this feel good!!

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Count me among the Americans who would love to see a coalition of moderate Dems and Reps in the house come together and thwart the crazy far right. Who would that be? Who might step forward? – I know its unlikely but I like to believe that the USA is a country of ideals.

Has anyone in the GOP heard of this Einstein guy? He said:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

I know he’s a scientist but I think he has a point.

I don’t get it in two very often. Wordle 564 2/6*

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Tomorrow I will explain why this is very amusing.

I just thought it would be fun to say hello from 30,000 feet. After a lot of waiting for de-icing and runway plowing we have escaped the Minnesota winter.

Back home after six hours… The first time I’ve ever seen them close the Minneapolis airport. We might have made it out tonight but it is already 10pm and its a 3 hour flight to California! We will try again in the morning.

The bookshelf feature has spawned all kinds of fun. Extracting all the books on my kindle, converting ASIN’s to ISBNs, getting genre information, remembering my favorite authors…. Recreational Programming is always a nice break. 📚 Getting ready for the next big import.

Shoutout to @canion, @burk, and @martinfeld for a fun podcast - Tight Thirty on Hemispheric Views. Here are my own photo selections: [A Reputable Journal] (https://reputablejournal.com/2022/12/29/favorite-photos-of.html)