Charles Pence @pence@scholar.social

And if early indications are right, this is going to be another phenomenal academic year. Getting some big projects finished, starting to rework my research and teaching portfolio for the kind of post-tenure career I want to have. Hitting our stride on our new biodiversity project.

And hopefully being able to integrate a bit better here in Brussels as the BA.5 wave wraps up. (Time to pick up the clarinet again!)

Long story short: can't complain. (Which is very non-Belgian.) 2/2

Pity his stuff didn't get integrated into the anglophone tradition until Kuhn picked it up. Would have formed such a healthy debate partner for the early years of logical empiricism.

holy shit lmao

Super helpful fonctionnaire at the commune got me sorted out this morning: new three year residence card *and* I know how to start the path to citizenship here next summer!

Very Belgian: everything is really not that difficult *if* you find the right person to talk to who can explain how you should do things. You could spend the rest of your life on the city website and never learn what you'd otherwise get in 45 seconds of chatting.

wow, my daily driver laptop is going on 3 weeks of uptime

I feel like Firefox has recently really tidied up its memory management. (Maybe Electron, too? I'm stuck with Teams and Slack, so...)

(I lopped off a closing quote there when I was copy-pasting, but you get the idea.)

I'm not sure if this is a Cool Tip or Eldritch Knowledge That Should Be Buried in a Deep Hole, but if you want to do quick HTML parsing from a shell script (~what~, I hear you say to yourself) the html-xml-utils from W3C are really lovely:

cat $html | hxselect -s '\n' -c "meta[name=\"citation_pdf_url\"]::attr(content)

and you have the "content" attribute of every meta-tag with name="citation_pdf_url".

Man, KU Leuven's cryptography squad is something else. https://thehackernews.com/2022/08/single-core-cpu-cracked-post-quantum.html

For all that the US/anglophone academy still has a long way to go in terms of disability studies and integration of disabled perspectives into academia, let me tell you: holy *heck* we are miles ahead of the francophone literature... oof

Morning jams: Ivorian reggae with a healthy dose of anti-colonialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZqtAohIPA

2-0 win in the end! Time to take it to Glasgow.

new teaching experience:

"nothing on the site or in the course description said you had to come to class "