S7E15 is the first part of a three-parter where the gang goes to LA. It’s the first appearance (I think) of everyone’s favorite crime-show staple: luminol.
They’re using it to figure out where a high-powered lady film executive was murdered. Lauren Graham plays a potential love interest for Curtis.
Love a quote-tweet prompt:
1. History of technology
2. History of weather and climate science
3. Science and technology in Canadian history
4. Environmental history of North America
It could be worse. (Because this graphic could have been posted for Passover.)
“I’m referring, of course, to the animated cartoon fox. Brian Bedford, who performed the voice of this fox, was British but performed and directed theatre for like 30 years at the Stratford Festival. Which is in Canada. Touché, Brits!”
(deleted an earlier version with silly typo)
Much appreciated! I booked at the conference hotel already. Let’s maybe the three of us grab a lunch or something if your social calendars aren’t too full 😊
Extremely cool. My collaborator on this project, who is a multimedia projection artist, would probably get a lot out of this too. You always come through, Daniella! Will I see you at ASEH in a couple of weeks?
Thanks for all of this! I have a research trip to Boise (probably) planned for May and I just want to sort of have a sense of a general lay of the land. Most of my North American sci/tech/env is based around the northeast and I’m having fun poking around a new region.
(Also hi @adamsowards.net I’m in the early stages of an interdisciplinary project that uses the 1948 “beaver drop” to think about animal-technology-environment relations. I’m collabing with a multimedia artist who specializes in more-than-human communication. We’re staging an installation!)
Yes he is! The Idaho edited volume is already on my library request list.
There’s nothing I love more than learning about a new place and finding that there’s a recent edited volume called “New Histories of [That Place].”
Both classics indeed! I assign the Brown essay in my history of technology class every semester because we do a section on “The Grid” as a socio-technical concept. A good reminder to give it another read.
I think they came in through cracks in the walls. They’d come down from the ceiling sometimes! (It’s important to know that we were missing some ceiling tiles.)
At least there was a couch upon which we Faculty could Lounge and disparage the military or whatever we’re supposed to be doing.
I think so? No one has told me otherwise. I’m just relieved about the lack of wasps.
Whenever Faculty Lounge Discourse pops up I reflect on how the break room at my current academic institution is better than the break room at my previous one because we have
1. Running water
2. A full-sized refrigerator
3. No wasp nests in the ceiling
I’m embarking on a new collaborative research project that deals with a part of the USA I haven’t studied much. #Skystorians , what are your favorite books and articles about #envhist , science, and technology in the Mountain West/PNW?
(This project is mostly about Idaho.)
Slugger, a black and white miniature poodle, has curled up in a suitcase because it’s in the direct path of a bright, warm sunbeam.
Slugger, a black and white miniature poodle, in close-up lying in a suitcase. Honestly, he doesn’t look that comfortable, but one must make sacrifices to nap in the sunbeam.
Slugger likes to take his midmorning nap in the warmth of a sunbeam, and nothing will get in his way.
I just got reports back on my first book and I had like a 2h call with my editor—shout-out @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social !—where we went through each critique and how I might address them.
Made the whole thing so much less overwhelming. Love the “solve the problems” framing.
S7E14. I have two more words for you. Elaine. Stritch. As a lover of 30 Rock (and Elaine Stritch) it’s fun to listen to her say things to McCoy like “listen, Jack, I’m going to kick your backside in that courtroom.”
(she’s representing a suburban mom-turned-sex worker played by Felicity Huffman)
ALSO, IT’s NOT A “HE”
If it was a lady AI “she’d” be denigrated for farting off to waste her time with stories and poems or whatever
(I bet there’s an incredible paper somewhere about how Siri and Alexa are ladies, but Claude and Grok are dudes)
also, “he.” “He” can navigate your Canvas page and has his own computer. “He.”
S7E11. A bystander sees someone jump (not really; it was part of an insurance scam or something) off a bridge and calls 911 from his CAR PHONE.
The real point of this episode is for Curtis’s wife to leave him because of his infidelity with Jennifer Garner in last season’s finale.
Two summers ago I was at MoMA and this exhibit offered magnifying glasses and my mom—not really into art, dragged there by me, probably counting down the minutes until our lunch reservation—stopped and pored over every detail of each artwork.
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hashtag history professor problems
I spend weeks in my history of technology class trying to convince my (mostly engineering) students that all human-made stuff is technology. Including Muppets, I suppose.
When the original dunk-able post on this went around my first instinct was “CONDOMS.” And then “TAMPONS.”
alt-text (whoops!)
A classroom whiteboard with “1900s =20th century, 1800s = 19th century, 1700s = 18th century” written on it in red marker
hashtag history professor problems
S7E8. Briscoe and Curtis are interviewing the “philosophical and spiritual exploration guide” of a society-lady-suspect. He’s wearing a turtleneck that says “it’s nice to be nice” and petting a borzoi. He prefers “face-to-face communication” so Briscoe makes direct eye contact an inch from his nose.
This afternoon a student I had in Spring ‘25 stopped by my office. I love when this happens! We chatted for like ten minutes about his courses this semester, how he was helping a friend with their Bible study later today, etc.
It was only about two minutes after he left that I remembered his name.
Broadly speaking, I prefer my Star Trek a little silly. It makes the imagined utopian(ish) future feel quotidian. Because life is a little silly!
For every paradigm-shifting metaphysical question about life there has to be a store selling treats on a stick that no one really likes or whatever.
Yep! It’s a crochet technique called “corner-to-corner” or “c2c.” I basically turned the illustration of the dog into pixel art, and each pixel is a cluster of stitches.
I’ve been crocheting for a few years but that was my first time doing this technique. I…probably won’t do it again.
An overhead picture of a huge crocheted blanket on a carpeted floor. It’s grey with red and rainbow trim and has a long orange cartoon dachshund and the words “LONG DOG” on it.
My niece (2 1/4 yo) has this picture book of dog opposites that she loves. Big dog/small dog. Etc. She especially loves the “long dog/short dog” page. For a while she slept with it open to the “long dog” page in her crib.
So I made her this. It’s 5.5 feet long. The longest long dog.
