"[I have to miss class today, for a legitimate reason.] Please let me know if there’s anything important I should review or any materials I should catch up on."
Students, just don't. It's all important, you should review it all, and catch up on all of it. If I were covering only the trivia I have interest in, this course would be very different. (Consider taking one of my special topics!)
CDE for the Modern Era
I've decided to return to my roots, in some respects. Unfortunately, the Sun Ultra 60 workstation is not (yet) sitting at my desk, but I can partially relive its day to day experience of the CDE desktop by using NsCDE.
It's clean, crisp, responsive, and fast. Maybe once I finish customizing its retro-ness there will be some time for screenshots.
Now, back to eBay to find a proper Ultra 60... 
Kid1 (he’s 13) needs new athletic shoes. So we get to the store and the foot measurement thing says he needs 12.5. But they don’t make that size. So he needs 13s. But he doesn’t like any because “they are too long.” 
I love this dude.
@mrundkvist vertical video cut of Lawrence of Arabia ? like those criminal 4/3 crops of films for old television, only _extreme_ #VerticalVideo #KidsTheseDays
busybee: Notes: Greg Isenberg on X https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/chatter/8128-Greg-Isenberg-on-X #KidsTheseDays #ChatGPT #Notes #Blog #AI
Way back when I was in high school, and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a girl-fight had rules.
No hair-pulling.
No hits below the belt.
No choking.
No smearing of makeup.
No biting or scratching of eyes.
No meowing or hissing from male onlookers.
There was a code, people.
Now, it's just hair extensions and dental retainers flying everywhere, Glock 19s, and fast-food employees scrambling to call the police.
#KidsTheseDays
#MyLawnOffYouGet ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
Wut? Is this the two-year-old or the three-month-old?
Not all heroes wear... scuse me, just getting a lil choked up...
Oh! Now I get it! I've been wondering for a few years why people on social media post photos of #quotes from #books instead of more easily readable screenshots of ebooks, etc. Lots of photos of pages curved so extremely that it's hard to read the quote, or with the reader's fingers in the frame, etc. Why can't those lazy bums find a more readable shot of the passage, or just type it out? Sheesh.
But I think I get it, now: #reading physical books is considered "harder" than watching videos and more legit than ebooks. People are bragging about their Old School Toughness by reading actual physical books? I think?
One thing I'm noticing is how LESS user friendly softwares/apps are getting. Why am I trying to deep dive into the programmer's headspace, like a profiler on a police procedural, so I can figure out where they put certain options? Before, it was clickety-click to file, options. Done.
And I'm not just talking Microsoft. But oof.
#OddConfession
I've seen hundreds of people use "thot" in a sentence. I've even seen a few of them explain it. I still don't really understand what it means or how it's supposed to be used.
"whelp" too.
It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.
My elder teen used the word "self-considerate" (as in her friend wasn't going along with what she wanted her to do but she understood that it was because the friend was respecting her own boundaries) and it is now part of my vocabulary.
I am not being difficult, I am being self-considerate.
@whalecoiner literally today I got to hear a support teacher coach my gen-alpha son through using a corded phone. I asked and it was the first time he'd used one. I had to keep reminding him to not breathe into the receiver. I imagine is be nearly as clueless in front of those old crank phones. #kidsTheseDays
Kids These Days listening to their LoFi beats and ambient music as they study.
Why, in my day we listened to Gregorian Chant and we liked it!
Kids these days don't know how to pretend to be a typewriter when eating corn on the cob.
Checking out at the grocery store and item needs a price check. Teen cashier calls over the manager (also a teen) who instead of running into the aisles to find the item whips out her iPhone and looks the item up on the store’s website to check the price. DONE.
SO SMART! #KidsTheseDays
You don't remember the good old days when graphics designers had to do kerning and baseline alignment by hand? To cut costs, many projects would subcontract preschoolers under the pretense of handwriting practice, which could lead to misaligned letters.
@davew I don’t know what it is but fresh episodes from good podcasts seem to be thinning out in frequency lately and in times of dearth I resort to trusty ol’ dave.podcatch.com for ideas 
Then I see this latest NYT abomination and well, I did a facepalm… #kidsthesedays #whyIOughta
