If all the toilets in your house are occupied and you are waiting for one to be free, switch off the wi-fi.

Does cantankerous acid have one fewer oxygen in it than cantankeric acid?

Failures in Dimensional Analysis, appendix 17:

Is it not true that volume is distance cubed, and that distance is speed times time? And since time is money, must it not be that volume is cubical money?

A haiku on covering a course as a professor emeritus

Out of retirement
Teaching again some physics
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!

The page below remains the best undergrad physics lab write-up of all time, and it also sports the greatest science lab figure and caption combination ever to appear.

pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall....

A Haiku on PHYS 106

Physics for pre-meds
Mercenary hoop-jumpers
I just want an A

“Scientists, their funders and their professional societies must follow in Galileo’s perhaps apocryphal footsteps and speak up about DEI’s crucial role in science,” writes Arthur Caplan in a World View article for Nature. 🧪

Went to the Elwha River yesterday, no further upstream than the road closure. Did go down to the beach at the mouth. Then back to Port Townsend via the tasting room at Eaglemount Cidery.

What if the concierge in R'lyeh transposes the llamas with his semantic externalism, and 2024 was merely a parasympathetic manifestation of what is called the Martha Mitchell Effect, despite the cautions from the Congress of Way-Overaged Defunct Booze Pitchmen?

Gimme that old time religion,
Gimme that old time religion,
Gimme that old time religion,
It's good enough for me.

It was good enough for Marduk,
It was good enough for Marduk,
It was good enough for Marduk,
It's good enough for me....

It seems to be unreasonably difficult to find all-cotton women's pajamas.

One thing about snow today: the birds were very active on the feeders in our front yard. The most exotic things we had today were the Townsend's Warblers (both m and f). I had hopes of getting a Varied Thrush that had come down from the hills (had those before), but no such luck.

In the utterly inexplicable category, one of my cars was stolen last night ... the 2005 one, which has been undriveable for well over a year and interior is full of mold. They literally dragged it away (the tracks make it clear the wheels were locked as the car was pulled away). Car is worthless.

Okay, I'm here. Not planning on being real profligate with posts.

News: Looks like I will be teaching in the spring. The department is short-handed due to a medical emergency, so I'll be back in the classroom (and teaching lab) end of March into mid-June.