Devin Berg @drb@scholar.social

Kind of sad watching truck after truck unload coal at my university's physical plant outside my office window.

The more I collaborate with sociologists and anthropologists, the more interesting my paper titles become.

To the person sending me meeting requests for 2020. No.

@jhlee yea, I wish! Not something I have any sort of budget for.

I really hate when I have some technical/programming based thing I want to do, but don't really know how to do. I keep putting it off because I can't find the time it will take me to learn how to do the thing.

Just finished cleaning 7 inches of snow off the driveway. Now they're predicting another 9+ inches for tonight through tomorrow.

Another day of schools closed for the kids. That's 5 of the last 6 days now...

@Analog if it were me, I'd warn them about it and suggest that it is perfectly ok to step outside, lower head, etc. Or, if it is not central to your lesson, maybe just stop before that scene? Personally, I'd struggle with watching it.

From the last page of a book I recently finished:

"…the funny thing is I've got tenure now after all these years. It doesn't matter what happens to my job; I've got tenure in the only place it counts. In here." He tapped his chest.

@hvincent
Delays would be fine though stay home days also acceptable.

We are supposed to hit wind chills of -60°F next week. Wonder if that's enough to cancel classes? 🤔

You know what's not conducive to a stress-free start to the semester?

Bronchitis that causes you to completely lose your voice for three days (and counting)!

social networks are all just variations on email...

Local timeline / federated timeline are community-based listservs.

Hashtags are topic-based listservs.

CWs >> subject lines

Followers have simply subscribed to my newsletter.

So the more I think about it, Mastodon seems like just a lite version of email.