I’ve spent a decade in higher ed and these days it’s all panel interviews, and sometimes multiple panels across an afternoon if you’re up for a leadership role. It’s freaking exhausting.

I don’t care about the new comments. All I have to add is the phrase “thundering dumbass” has been a tremendous addition to my lexicon, and I kept thinking it whenever I saw Danny in the last two episodes.

Oh wow, the mustang made i—oh, I guess not.

A professor in college had this discussion with a group of us, and it stuck with me. He held the position that most of us hadn’t experienced failure; got into the college of our choice, succeeded academically or socially or athletically to get there, and we lacked the coping mechanisms to deal with failure when it…

I really like this series. The technical details that photogs put into getting their shots in endlessly fascinating, always a little different each time, and I appreciate hearing what went in to getting each one. Great reads, each one.

You’re right, but especially with the “almost.” We are paying for two phones, but even WITH those payments our bill is smaller. The pixels were an upgrade, and we’re still paying less? Good deal.

The wife and I switched to google fi as soon as we could and regret nothing. So much cheaper than what we were paying for our data.

You’ve agreed with Ted Cruz?

I could have used this link earlier in my career. Out of school I was working for a safety-focused nonprofit. It’s a big group but our office was small, especially for our city. Lots of media requests but no training whatsoever. Some of it was fine, some of it most certainly was not and made the group look worse for…

DONATE. You might not be able to control the buying habits of other people (looking at you, grandparents), but you can get your child to realize how much joy they can give someone else by doing a toy purge before birthdays and christmas. Doesn’t have to clear out the entire room, but picking a handful of toys they…

They are being weird, but I also think some neighbors can have an almost pathological need to see what the insides of other houses look like, especially if the houses have similar floorplans and someone new moves in. We moved into our house and multiple neighbors commented that they’d been to the open houses just to…

Stay calm is the most useful advice, but used ice cream containers actually make great barf buckets if you think you’ll need them. We’re planning a road trip next month with two kids under 5 and we’ve been stockpiling containers for a few weeks. Will having them in the car encourage their getting used? I’m not sure,…

Hopefully someone at her college/university sees this and can confirm she’s exactly the kind of student they would want at their institution. And if they haven’t, I hope she’s able to reach out and confirm her scholarship status independent of this debacle of a high school. As a higher ed administrator, if I had heard…

I grew up with a huge yard and felt like I spent way more time than I needed to at a gas station filling up gas cans for our crappy little mower. When I bought a house the yard was a lot smaller, but still almost a 1/3 of an acre. Battery powered was the only way I was going to go, and I’ve loved using my 40v…

I grew up with a huge yard and felt like I spent way more time than I needed to at a gas station filling up gas cans…

Yeah, Lucas and his landscaping buddy can go fuck themselves. Have a kid stay in the NICU for a while and see how much you care if someone cuts your grass while you’re there.

Very carefully.

Very carefully.

I am a little older, but this goal from ‘97 will always be my favorite McCarty goal. The way he finished on one leg had me jumping up and down in my living room.

This just seems like an attempt to artificially inflate City College enrollment numbers. I’m sure there’s no ulterior motives to that at all.

This is always a great look for college coaches. Kizer’s way better off going to the NFL vs staying with purple-face up there. I cannot wait until he gets canned.

Wow. I wish I could do this, but shopping w/2 young kids might make this more trouble than it’s worth. Although finding the grocery stores with bars seemed to help a lot too.