All of this rain has left our San Jancinto mountains with more snow than usual, and a beautiful backdrop for today’s round of golf.

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What to do when your open source community lets someone down? Promises were made, now classes are starting tomorrow and the recipient of those promises is left hanging and you get radio silence from the people you need to live up to their end of the bargain.

I finally got time to post a retrospective of 2022 for Runestone Academy. Give it a read and feel free to comment or discuss here.

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.