Tim Ruback
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Tim Ruback
@profruback.bsky.social
IR theory / historical IR / Pedagogy / Maine / Dogs. Views=mine. Trying to practice kindness here. Also here to remind everyone that Thucydides never said that.

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Obligatory photo of a very good boi
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Also, I deeply identify with this chicken. I am him. He is me. He is us all.
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
OMG best recipe in the whole of the NYT cooking web. We make it regularly in the winter. With double the onions tho'
September 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Another way of looking at it: if the suggested cooking time is right, then that's only one clove per minute-- which seems awfully slow to me.
September 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Love it! Thanks again for sharing!!
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Very cool, thanks! TROY strikes me as SO interesting in that context, almost contrapuntal to If I Ruled; the hyperspecificity of the one against the bigger-canvas commentary of the other, yet with several points of convergence...

This is just great stuff.
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Very cool assignment!!

Can I ask: I'm always interested in the outliers with these sorts of things. Were there any unexpected, out-of-left-field ones that the student(s) did a great job contextualizing?
September 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I genuinely unironically love the Standells. Some great garage-y songs on that first album.
August 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I've lived this scenario and tried to rig up all manner of contraptions to trigger the sensor -- pulleys! mirrors! foam darts! -- and nothing worked well enough. Then one of my favorite students asked me why I didn't just bring in a lamp.
August 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I used to use Hall and Oates whenever I needed a couple names to round out a multiple choice exam. Kept a running tally of whenever they were chosen. Here, too, Oates got the short end of the stick.
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM