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Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

I’ve been officially off-contract at UNL for almost four weeks. In that time, I’ve packed up most of my house, read about 30 novels¹, bought a house, created a strategy to…

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Gears crushing a black human stick-like figure

Faculty Are Not Widgets and Shouldn’t Work For Free

In the last few days, I’ve finished my final lecture at UNL, completed a pile of grading, submitted a subaward in a new collaboration (with people I met as a result of the…

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On Fighting the Good Fight

It’s taken me a month and a few days to be ready to write this post, but I’m going to start with a conversation I had with my son on December 5th as we walked to the NU…

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Program Cuts and The Yo-Yo of Hope and Despair

This is definitely not told in linear order from start to finish – for one thing, between Sept 11 and Dec 5, time itself lost all meaning for me. I was working about 3x…

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Measuring Your Tools, for Science!

This project is a bit of informal data collection meant to help me calibrate the likelihood of a random tool matching a wire in evidence of a given gauge/diameter.

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