J’ai été content aujourd’hui de comprendre le mot « rougeole » à la RTS. Puis, je me suis demandé où j’aurai eu besoin d’apprendre ce mot dans le passé. Comme elle fait sa réapparation aux États-Unis maintenant, peut-être que j’en aurai besoin en fin de compte.

Dealing with yet another case of “these reviewer suggestions are good and pretty straightforward, so why don’t I have any motivation to make the revisions?”

Discovered a quirky museum spotlighting local artists and found in their gift shop a zine that a former student of mine contributed to. Double win!

Je suis content de découvrir combien il est facile de changer mon site Hugo en version multilangue, mais il y aura des conséquences pour le POSSE si je ne suis pas attentif…

Playing the Portal series with kiddo is going well, except that she is (understandably, tbh) freaked out by the Valve screen that appears when you first load it.

One of my favorite ways of stretching my Hugo and Siri Shortcuts skills is thinking about features I could build into my website based off of what other services already offer. Thinking about building a game session logging system this summer…

I feel like we need to talk more about epistemology—and especially the social construction of facts—in the era of chatbot LLMs.

What kind of children’s performer has three different “no photos” reminders before the show even starts?

Kiddo’s Father’s Day card has been addressed to “Dr. Spencer Greenhalgh,” which is technically accurate but still feels off.

Woke up with protest music from Andor playing in my head, which seems fitting.

Has anyone ever tried Kagi’s Kid Mode? It sounds like a great idea but also ups the cost significantly, so I’d like to hear about experiences before deciding.

Trader Joe’s chai mints are everything I was hoping they’d be.

Un ami norvégien qui a passé son enfance dans le Vaud m’a dit cette semaine qu’il détectait de l’influence suisse dans mon français, et j’en ai été très fier !

“What am I, made of jokes tonight?” - kiddo, after telling two admittedly good ones

Living my best Mormon(-adjacent) life today by having an article accepted in Dialogue the same day that I’ll be watching two of the people who gave me advice on revisions be ordained apostles in Community of Christ.

One of the fun things (for me) about attending World Conference is remembering how much more useful French is in Community of Christ contexts than LDS contexts.

So, uh, is my kid’s dream about a peanut butter fountain a good or a bad omen for all the hours we’re spending in the car today?

Road trip tomorrow, so downloading Portal to kiddo’s Switch to see if she’s old enough to enjoy it.

Il n’y a pas d’anxiété sans été.

Kiddo just apologized for being the “baron of bad news,” and that’s how we’re all going to say it from now on, okay?

Who schedules an academic conference to overlap with Halloween? And how long ago did they stop having kids at home?

Kiddo: wonders why I am talking about disabling predictive text on the iPad she’s using spouse: “well, Daddy is a monster who doesn’t even use autocorrect” me: “excuse me, I think you mean I’m a ‘mnoster’”

Kiddo is a wild mix of adventurous and picky when it comes to food. She does not want the unobjectionable ravioli the rest of us are eating, but she is powering through the too-spicy-for-her curry leftovers in the fridge.

Trying to figure out whether hate listening to the audiobook of Moneyball has implications for my suitability to teach my department’s Intro to Data Science class.

Am I tired, am I getting sick, or is it just Monday?

I like traditional hymns a lot, but yesterday’s service included two amazing Congolese choirs, and I’m starting to suspect that everything Mormonism taught me about guitars and drums not belonging in church is wrong.

Spending time at a local library, thinking about how much these institutions offer their communities, and bemoaning that there are politicians petty and cruel enough to want to undermine them.

One of my favorite webcomics is a long runner that began when I was just starting high school, so the archive binge I began this week is bringing back memories in multiple ways.

Mitch McConnell is the only one of my elected federal representatives to respond in any way to the concerns I phone or write in, but it’s always with super vague copypasta that makes me more angry than no response at all.

“Kentuckian” has long been an important part of my identity, but every time I watch the Kentucky Derby, the more it makes me mad.

When my post-bike commute helmet hair starts looking like Norman Osborn’s weird comics haircut, it might be time for a trim.

I doubt I have time today for a longer, more nuanced post, so please enjoy this subtweet: Anyone whose takeaway from the University of Zurich Reddit study is “AI is good at convincing people!” and doesn’t even mention the HUGE ethical issues in passing is missing the point.

That feeling when you write an article for a lesser journal’s special issue but actually find a home in a stronger journal after the special editors reject it.

Aw, heck yes, there’s a Eurovision internet radio station.

Today, a student from across campus explained that they used ChatGPT to identify me as a potential thesis committee member, and I am shallow enough to have had a very brief flicker of positive feeling toward the technology.

Ebike adventure of the day: Taking a speed bump so fast it disconnected an important cord, and I spend a couple minutes trying to figure out why I lost power.