3 things contribute to my difficulties: 1. there are multiple good, but very different, approaches; 2. none of the approaches are "obviously" correct; 3. I fixated on the most obviously correct version, but my brain adapted it to make it easier to explain (but also also breaks the algorithm).

I don't often hear owls in my neighborhood, but I heard a loud one in my yard last night. Now I know why.

I apologized profusely, but he didn't mind. Instead, he asked his young daughter to help him eat the popcorn that had collected on his arms and shirt. Simple kindness and forgiveness.

...It is important to us when we are old simply because it is there--important, that is, simply as an idea."

www.wilderness.org/articles/art...

...The reminder and the reassurance that it is still there is good for our spiritual health even if we never once in ten years set foot in it. It is good for us when we are young, because of the incomparable sanity it can bring briefly, as vacation and rest, into our insane lives...

That is good.

Goofus and Gallant would make quite the reporting pair.

"Our public universities must also be more accountable. College professors ... have too much influence over who is hired to educate our kids. We need legislation that prohibits professors from having any say over employment decisions."

gov.texas.gov/news/post/go...

Thank you. I should've guessed that there was a name for this, but it hadn't risen to the level of searching for it.

Also on the bottom left you can just barely see the arm of the (terrible) couch where some people used to nap. That and the pool table were defining features for me.

Not me! I think Serge is right about Győző. It's really fun to see a photo of the lab again, I haven't seen it in many years. My old desk is hidden behind the wall, it was just below the rightmost windows. Why didn't we play more pool during those days?