Academic Dad

People say, "You're a professor, you must be rich.", and I say uh...no...I'm not...but I *live near* rich people and teach their children, and I've studied them, and I've seen how they make other people's lives miserable, including mine.

Weekly Skews – A Very D.C. Death x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@BrentTerhune That’s awesome congrats

I’d like to send a sincere and heartfelt thank you out to everyone who came to my special taping this past Saturday. We had people come from as far as Florida, Tennessee, Indiana and Parts Unknown. Both shows were great and I think we got more than enough for a special. Thank you to the Commonwealth Comedy Club and their staff for being so accommodating. Also thank you to all the producers who let me jump on their shows the last few months so I could stay fresh. The editing process will most likely be a few months, but I’m happy to announce the special will debut on Gas Station TV and Walmart Radio. Ok, that’s not true. It’ll be on my YouTube channel so please go subscribe over there when you can.

How come when one of these is about a techie couple who retired early & cashed out at the peak of their company's stock value and they're trying to find a 3BR w/a MIL suite in Pasadena the couple appears downtrodden, but when it's about 5 living on $46K they're all happy. Why.

Honest question when you become a famous professor in this way do they give you great clothes and nice hair or does having good clothes and hair come before

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Double-blind review is great but let’s add a thing where you have to disclose how many total papers have been published by the author(s). Because I’ll happily write a gentle and extensively helpful review for a student. But eff them famous ones submitting slop for us to fix.

Decades ago I asked a friend why the grocery store he worked at had such bad produce and high prices and he said because the chain had used shopper club cards and other data to learn that a large % of their customers walked to the store and the next nearest store was a mile away.

Our grocery store doesn’t carry whole wheat flour anymore.

Mitch McConnell‘s Health

@HigherEd_ITGuy Oh no, coming from you, that's bad

Pretty sure "Delete and Report Junk" means "We're going to send your number to everyone now".

@GarrettMAA Not to worry, it’s all of us. 🫠

Really terrible look for my alma mater.

- Platner suspends his campaign - zero guarantee of anti-genocide, anti-war, pro medicare for all candidate - no caucus of mainers - closed insider process

In years past I vainly tried to be at a certain body weight for looks but now I do it so I don’t have to spend money on new clothes.

Thanks yeah no my back’s fine I always load the dishwasher from my knees, gets you closer to the racks you can really get things organized right, but thank you tho.

If pro sports are just going to ruin youth sports in the US then let's just shut down pro sports.

@MikeHerndonSk1 Rec league soccer isn't cheap tho

100% true. If you have a six year old who is any good at all in the US, your options currently are: A) cheap rec league soccer where your child gets zero coaching and no real competition OR B) shell out thousands per year to a travel club Completely broken system.

@jonathanbfine @NickBaumann Our two play a lot of sports but thankfully they don’t care enough to play travel. We did one season (<$500), 4/10 don’t recommend.

@NickBaumann pandemic hit right when it would have been time to commit to travel soccer for my eldest, and i feel like we dodged a bullet

We were asked to pay $2900 to sign up my then-6-year-old child (who is no Pele) for travel soccer in D.C. (We declined.)