There are plenty of research scientists who could find things for those gpus to do. Even useful things!

I refuse to give Douthat any more attention than absolutely necessary (which is very little). What little respect I had for him crashed to zero years ago when he advocated renewed stigmatization of single motherhood. No one should have to waste their energy on this stuff!

Start presentation; realize clickers aren't running; exit presentation; start clickers; resume presentation.

Mirror screen to tablet (so can write on it), while extending screen to projector system, knowing that if this gets reversed, it will take >10 minutes to recover and probably involve rebooting something.

And a couple of weeks ago I came up with a Star-Wars-based problem that I was going to put on this week's homework. For the human touch, it relies on Leia rolling her eyes and taking matters into her own hands. I can change the characters, but it won't be the same.

It was fine, and non-negotiable, to get rid of Harry Potter-based problems and examples. But the course materials are also littered with Marvel, Star Trek and Star Wars references.

Email away!

Also, wish I could go to the meeting, but teaching and kids make that impossible!

Sounds about right for Greece! But actually, my most frightening taxi ride was in Germany, with a driver noodling on his iPad while doing 150+ on the Autobahn.

What???

Not acceptable, but it gets sooo much more attention now that conservative white man is saying it.