Evan Kirshenbaum
@evankirshenbaum.bsky.social
[he/him] Software researcher, inventor, erstwhile linguist, book lover, bad bassist, former youth soccer ref and baseball coach, Stanford grad, proud dad, and devoted husband.
AUE regular back when Usenet was a thing. (Yeah, ASCII/IPA was me.)
AUE regular back when Usenet was a thing. (Yeah, ASCII/IPA was me.)
I don't know if they've tweaked their rules on this since then, but as of 2015, they said that for non-medical doctors, they use the title "only if it is germane to the holder's primary current occupation", only if it's earned, and only if requested to.
(archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadlin...).
(archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadlin...).
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I don't know if they've tweaked their rules on this since then, but as of 2015, they said that for non-medical doctors, they use the title "only if it is germane to the holder's primary current occupation", only if it's earned, and only if requested to.
(archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadlin...).
(archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadlin...).
The crowd at my corner in Mountain View, CA, is only a couple of hundred or so, but we do have an axlotl and àl wizard. And it's still early.
October 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The crowd at my corner in Mountain View, CA, is only a couple of hundred or so, but we do have an axlotl and àl wizard. And it's still early.
The Valkyries are in the playoffs!
(And we'll be out of the country. We scheduled the trip for after the season, because c'mon…they're an expansion team. Sigh.)
(And we'll be out of the country. We scheduled the trip for after the season, because c'mon…they're an expansion team. Sigh.)
September 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The Valkyries are in the playoffs!
(And we'll be out of the country. We scheduled the trip for after the season, because c'mon…they're an expansion team. Sigh.)
(And we'll be out of the country. We scheduled the trip for after the season, because c'mon…they're an expansion team. Sigh.)
Video games. (I had both.)
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Video games. (I had both.)
Socrates warned that books were bad. [Phaedra, 275]
!["For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem [275b] to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3lhpfedlb55ygopgv4pevdjh/bafkreihbwg6jyvuie4wterqtmo74s2lnmw33ytrkk26vtu65vu5r2wf5pu@jpeg)
June 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Socrates warned that books were bad. [Phaedra, 275]
Lots of American flags (and a fair number of LGBTQ+ flags and a few Mexican and Ukrainian). LOTS of cars honking in support. (Pretty much continual.) Lots of drivers and passengers taking video as they drove by.
Maybe seven or eight drivers expressing MAGA sentiments.
#NoKings Medford, OR
Maybe seven or eight drivers expressing MAGA sentiments.
#NoKings Medford, OR
June 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Lots of American flags (and a fair number of LGBTQ+ flags and a few Mexican and Ukrainian). LOTS of cars honking in support. (Pretty much continual.) Lots of drivers and passengers taking video as they drove by.
Maybe seven or eight drivers expressing MAGA sentiments.
#NoKings Medford, OR
Maybe seven or eight drivers expressing MAGA sentiments.
#NoKings Medford, OR
Up in Ashland for the Shakespeare festival. Glad to be out here in Medford with a few thousand new friends.
June 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Up in Ashland for the Shakespeare festival. Glad to be out here in Medford with a few thousand new friends.
What you see in the rear-view mirror.
June 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What you see in the rear-view mirror.
Pre-ordered a week ago. (I don't remember where I noticed that it was available.)
Love the cover and really looking forward to it.
Love the cover and really looking forward to it.
May 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pre-ordered a week ago. (I don't remember where I noticed that it was available.)
Love the cover and really looking forward to it.
Love the cover and really looking forward to it.
You had a better angle than I did. 😄
May 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
You had a better angle than I did. 😄
I'm sorry. You leave your what?? 😄
(Yes, I know what it means, but I always ask for a translation to check that I'm reading correctly, and I did a double take on that one.)
(Yes, I know what it means, but I always ask for a translation to check that I'm reading correctly, and I did a double take on that one.)
April 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I'm sorry. You leave your what?? 😄
(Yes, I know what it means, but I always ask for a translation to check that I'm reading correctly, and I did a double take on that one.)
(Yes, I know what it means, but I always ask for a translation to check that I'm reading correctly, and I did a double take on that one.)
Steven Brust took this a step further in _The Phoenix Guards_
March 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Steven Brust took this a step further in _The Phoenix Guards_
IANAL, but in California, at least, it would certainly seem to have been rape. 261(4)(a) would apply if the innies and outies were legally the same person, and 261(5) would apply if they weren't.
March 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
IANAL, but in California, at least, it would certainly seem to have been rape. 261(4)(a) would apply if the innies and outies were legally the same person, and 261(5) would apply if they weren't.
It's still the case (in CA, at least) that if two kids under 18 have sex, they are *both* technically guilty of "unlawful sexual intercourse". PC §261.5(b), in a chapter that still calls it "carnal abuse of children".
It's not even the older one who's guilty or the instigator. They both are.
It's not even the older one who's guilty or the instigator. They both are.
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's still the case (in CA, at least) that if two kids under 18 have sex, they are *both* technically guilty of "unlawful sexual intercourse". PC §261.5(b), in a chapter that still calls it "carnal abuse of children".
It's not even the older one who's guilty or the instigator. They both are.
It's not even the older one who's guilty or the instigator. They both are.
About a hundred of us in Mountain View, CA, decided this would be a better use of our time.
March 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
About a hundred of us in Mountain View, CA, decided this would be a better use of our time.
Babka and Kooza are offended on behalf of their fellow felines, accused of crimes for such perfectly reasonable actions.
February 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Babka and Kooza are offended on behalf of their fellow felines, accused of crimes for such perfectly reasonable actions.
I always liked Robert Silverberg's notion that World's Fair, 1992 "contains many of the same words as Regans Planet, but they are generally arranged in a different order."
February 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I always liked Robert Silverberg's notion that World's Fair, 1992 "contains many of the same words as Regans Planet, but they are generally arranged in a different order."
Am I the only one flashing on the Moscow embassy? If this is allowed, the next administration* is going to have to get rid of them.
*Big assumption, I know.
*Big assumption, I know.
February 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Am I the only one flashing on the Moscow embassy? If this is allowed, the next administration* is going to have to get rid of them.
*Big assumption, I know.
*Big assumption, I know.
February 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM