samuel mehr

Well there's a silver lining!

Separate thing but "making students laugh" is right up there with "students writing you years later to say thanks for teaching them" in all-time kickass prof moments

i just remember being completely mystified, as a primary school kid, at the idea that computers could talk to one another. I would open the AppleTalk control panel and just look at it, confused

this is hilarious, also I did not know the term seppo until just now (and lol'd at the first OED example "did you hear how loud that seppo was on the train?")

Bowl of teeny noodles

Here are the galuska in the nude. Making them into this dessert is just warming them with butter and mixing up the rest. V good

5yo requested galuska for dinner (Hungarian egg noodles that are like tiny bread dumplings); with the extra, thanks to a Slovak colleague who brought me a package of ground poppyseed, I made a perfect little dessert of mákos nudli with lemon and a bit of apricot jam

Just finished 30k+ first-draft words for the thing I've been urgently putting together in the last 2 weeks of hellish every-waking-moment writing, please clap 🫠

Academics checking unread messages only to find they're reviewer requests

car on the road in auckland

zoom in and its license plate says 'matlab'

is this your car peelle

also turns out Dwight Fee is a real person in the office of the Dean of Students, which is a real office at Harvard (Thomas Dunne is the dean). Dwight must not be terribly careful about two-step verification though lol

You don't often get email from dfee@fas.harvard.edu. Learn why this is important Thomas Dunne , Dean of Students, has shared a document with you concerning a student report submitted by a parent or guardian for a student currently enrolled in one of your courses. Please review the attached document at your earliest convenience and take any appropriate follow-up action as necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Sincerely, Office of the Dean of Students Harvard University

every day, phishing scams get more sophisticated. this one figured out that I'm an academic (usually read official-sounding email from a dean) and also knows that academics aren't dumb enough to click any link: the URL is legitimate, to a real gdrive file, but *that* one has a malicious link in it

really starting to seem like AI disruption in cogsci is mainly gonna make code, tools, and analyses moderately easier, while cementing the importance of good theory and informative data

we study minds—as ever, to advance cognitive science, you gotta design elegant experiments w/ people and animals

really starting to seem like AI disruption in cogsci is mainly gonna make code, tools, and analyses moderately easier, while cementing the importance of good theory and informative data

we study minds—as ever, to advance cognitive science, you gotta design elegant experiments w/ people and animals

folks if you're claiming a 20-30 year old still-active account I wanna see some proof. pics or it didn't happen

here's my ebay account page, screenshot from my phone earlier this evening, with 'member since apr 30 2001'

often a place will say "whole fish" but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
quite fresh snapper though and the dipping sauce was on point

Quite tasty though!

À deep fried whole fish

we tried a new Thai place tonight and really did not expect the "deep fried snapper with chili sauce" to mean that literally (ie, the whole fish, deep fried, with a little tub of chili sauce). It's not inaccurate but.....lol

omg i wondered why the app kept asking me if I was writing in english!!! this has gotta be a bug, i don't speak portuguese lol

hard to believe no mating-obsessed evolutionary psychologist has spun this idea into a full-on grant proposal

Actually kind of wild that ebay handles have been that resilient! I haven't used in ages, do they still have those feedback scores? I was v pleased to have a good one as a kid selling my old Lego sets

Oh man

ok boomer

Although I guess it doesn't count since it's not the same account if it's device specific

This is gonna be hard to beat lol

I think, but there's really no way to confirm, my first actual internet account was an AOL handle from like 1995 called "sammyandco"

I quit Facebook years ago for a long while, so the barely-active one I have is pretty young

My oldest email is 22 or so, Gmail when it was in alpha or beta can't remember

Can't tweet again until somebody shitposts with your handle

Just for fun, elder millennials and genx-ers, how old is your oldest still-active username?

Pretty sure my oldest still standing — certainly not my actual oldest — is about to turn 25 (an ebay handle created April 2001)

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit