K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
@oharawe.bsky.social
Music theory prof interested in too many things, and too many sports teams. Currently writing about Amy Beach, video game music, and lots of other fun stuff. Swim dad. Happiest in/on water.
Oh, we got to the food episode, this show is about Millenial parents isn’t it. Great at taking care of others, literally incapable of takibg care of themselves.
Is Pluribus about ChatGPT? The syncophantism…
December 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Oh, we got to the food episode, this show is about Millenial parents isn’t it. Great at taking care of others, literally incapable of takibg care of themselves.
(Any other millennials who grew up on Wishbone for whom this is a significant cultural reference even If you can’t remember if you've actually read that book?)
“I saved the downtown errands for you because I know you miss city life.”
My wife is either very considerate, or an evil genius.
(On the Saturday before Christmas, I suspect I’m getting Tom Sawyer’d, with the fence…)
My wife is either very considerate, or an evil genius.
(On the Saturday before Christmas, I suspect I’m getting Tom Sawyer’d, with the fence…)
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
(Any other millennials who grew up on Wishbone for whom this is a significant cultural reference even If you can’t remember if you've actually read that book?)
“I saved the downtown errands for you because I know you miss city life.”
My wife is either very considerate, or an evil genius.
(On the Saturday before Christmas, I suspect I’m getting Tom Sawyer’d, with the fence…)
My wife is either very considerate, or an evil genius.
(On the Saturday before Christmas, I suspect I’m getting Tom Sawyer’d, with the fence…)
December 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“I saved the downtown errands for you because I know you miss city life.”
My wife is either very considerate, or an evil genius.
(On the Saturday before Christmas, I suspect I’m getting Tom Sawyer’d, with the fence…)
My wife is either very considerate, or an evil genius.
(On the Saturday before Christmas, I suspect I’m getting Tom Sawyer’d, with the fence…)
A new issue of Engaging Students is hot off the digital presses for your holiday reading pleasure, and it includes a piece I wrote! Check it out everyone!
engagingstudentsmusic.org/article/id/6...
engagingstudentsmusic.org/article/id/6...
Coding Sound, Crafting Circuits: Synthesizer Design as Critical Making
Studying early video game sound and music offers many active learning opportunities for undergraduate music students. This essay introduces instructors and students to the sonic capabilities and pedag...
engagingstudentsmusic.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A new issue of Engaging Students is hot off the digital presses for your holiday reading pleasure, and it includes a piece I wrote! Check it out everyone!
engagingstudentsmusic.org/article/id/6...
engagingstudentsmusic.org/article/id/6...
Dammit we’re going to have to write a book aren’t we @iconodule.bsky.social?
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dammit we’re going to have to write a book aren’t we @iconodule.bsky.social?
Is Pluribus about ChatGPT? The syncophantism…
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Is Pluribus about ChatGPT? The syncophantism…
Reposted by K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
Why are you weirdos watching this if you aren’t getting paid for it? There’s football one. You have unwatched episodes of Great British Bakeoff. You haven’t done your Duolingo today. Go do that stuff instead
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Why are you weirdos watching this if you aren’t getting paid for it? There’s football one. You have unwatched episodes of Great British Bakeoff. You haven’t done your Duolingo today. Go do that stuff instead
Today in dad life: my kid asked about driving through puddles and somehow I ended up lecturing her about standing water and how to wait for the water level to rise so you can open the door and I showed her the safety hammers my wife and I both keep in our consoles and wow I think I blacked out there
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Today in dad life: my kid asked about driving through puddles and somehow I ended up lecturing her about standing water and how to wait for the water level to rise so you can open the door and I showed her the safety hammers my wife and I both keep in our consoles and wow I think I blacked out there
“Like a sort of evil lemon,” Zhang says. “Definitely the weirdest exoplanet.”
Not now, ominous but somehow pathetic lemon-shaped exoplanet. www.newscientist.com/article/2508...
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
www.newscientist.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Like a sort of evil lemon,” Zhang says. “Definitely the weirdest exoplanet.”
oh sure nobody cares about Daddy’s teams but when your first-grade teacher is an Eagles fan, suddenly you like the Eagles 🤪
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
oh sure nobody cares about Daddy’s teams but when your first-grade teacher is an Eagles fan, suddenly you like the Eagles 🤪
Reposted by K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students
Nothing will make you an education AI skeptic faster than grading some college take home assignments. Admins who haven’t been in a classroom in years push it as a learning tool. Students are laughing at them as they use it as a cheating tool. It’s all instructors are texting about with each other.
December 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students
One student wrote flawless 1st-species counterpoint when the question asked for 2nd. I should give him half credit since he wrote half the notes, right? Or should we really split hairs and give him like a 62% b/c of first, last, & penultimate bars?
[Artusi gave him a zero, this is why I check them]
[Artusi gave him a zero, this is why I check them]
My Theory 1 students had an online final they could do anytime during finals week. Shoutouts to the girl who started her exam at 3:46am and finished at 5:34, and another who started at 5:34am (different day) and was done by 8.
Between them they have both sides of night owl/morning person covered.
Between them they have both sides of night owl/morning person covered.
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One student wrote flawless 1st-species counterpoint when the question asked for 2nd. I should give him half credit since he wrote half the notes, right? Or should we really split hairs and give him like a 62% b/c of first, last, & penultimate bars?
[Artusi gave him a zero, this is why I check them]
[Artusi gave him a zero, this is why I check them]
My Theory 1 students had an online final they could do anytime during finals week. Shoutouts to the girl who started her exam at 3:46am and finished at 5:34, and another who started at 5:34am (different day) and was done by 8.
Between them they have both sides of night owl/morning person covered.
Between them they have both sides of night owl/morning person covered.
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My Theory 1 students had an online final they could do anytime during finals week. Shoutouts to the girl who started her exam at 3:46am and finished at 5:34, and another who started at 5:34am (different day) and was done by 8.
Between them they have both sides of night owl/morning person covered.
Between them they have both sides of night owl/morning person covered.
I have a paper coming out very soon that has been in limbo for *four and a half years* and the editors are seriously like “ok you authors turn these page proofs around, seven days people, chop chop!”
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I have a paper coming out very soon that has been in limbo for *four and a half years* and the editors are seriously like “ok you authors turn these page proofs around, seven days people, chop chop!”
Reposted by K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
The malicious compliance aspect of this is that students can apparently now submit a complaint against every professor in the university and shut the whole place down indefinitely.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The malicious compliance aspect of this is that students can apparently now submit a complaint against every professor in the university and shut the whole place down indefinitely.
Going to bed, but this line is how you know you have lived long enough to see yourself become the villain.
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Going to bed, but this line is how you know you have lived long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Reposted by K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
it strikes me as a bizarre misunderstanding of what a nonprofit is. A scholarly org is not a business and an academic journal is not a commodity. There is no “product” to sell, and no value that is not generated by the mostly free labor of highly engaged professionals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
it strikes me as a bizarre misunderstanding of what a nonprofit is. A scholarly org is not a business and an academic journal is not a commodity. There is no “product” to sell, and no value that is not generated by the mostly free labor of highly engaged professionals.
Important thread linked below.
I’ve got lots to say about this and may even post some thoughts in a bit.
But my TLDR as an associate editor for an SMT journal is: the executive director of the AMS is obviously, extraordinarily, absolutely unsuited to running a scholarly society and should resign
I’ve got lots to say about this and may even post some thoughts in a bit.
But my TLDR as an associate editor for an SMT journal is: the executive director of the AMS is obviously, extraordinarily, absolutely unsuited to running a scholarly society and should resign
friends and colleagues, a new AMS update: if you signed the petition, you should've received an email outlining what has happened in the last month, communications w Council and the Board, & new info. for everyone, there's new info regarding JAMS & its editorial independence
December 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Important thread linked below.
I’ve got lots to say about this and may even post some thoughts in a bit.
But my TLDR as an associate editor for an SMT journal is: the executive director of the AMS is obviously, extraordinarily, absolutely unsuited to running a scholarly society and should resign
I’ve got lots to say about this and may even post some thoughts in a bit.
But my TLDR as an associate editor for an SMT journal is: the executive director of the AMS is obviously, extraordinarily, absolutely unsuited to running a scholarly society and should resign
somebody at Warner is just streaming Lord of the Rings highlights, it makes for great viewing while grading:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43N...
🔴 LIVE: The Lord of the Rings | Compilation Live Stream | Warner Bros. Entertainment
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
somebody at Warner is just streaming Lord of the Rings highlights, it makes for great viewing while grading:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43N...
Reposted by K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
field notes from a 3rd grade class trip:
1. 6-7 still everywhere, constant, inescapable (eg: LOLs at dinosaur documentary caption “67 million yrs ago”
2. kids still LOVE dinosaurs, but as a 90s kid it’s unsettling to see contemporary renderings of them with feathers, even if probably correct
1. 6-7 still everywhere, constant, inescapable (eg: LOLs at dinosaur documentary caption “67 million yrs ago”
2. kids still LOVE dinosaurs, but as a 90s kid it’s unsettling to see contemporary renderings of them with feathers, even if probably correct
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
field notes from a 3rd grade class trip:
1. 6-7 still everywhere, constant, inescapable (eg: LOLs at dinosaur documentary caption “67 million yrs ago”
2. kids still LOVE dinosaurs, but as a 90s kid it’s unsettling to see contemporary renderings of them with feathers, even if probably correct
1. 6-7 still everywhere, constant, inescapable (eg: LOLs at dinosaur documentary caption “67 million yrs ago”
2. kids still LOVE dinosaurs, but as a 90s kid it’s unsettling to see contemporary renderings of them with feathers, even if probably correct
get in loser, we’re doing font discourse
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
get in loser, we’re doing font discourse
Reposted by K2S0'Hara, but peppermint flavored
Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry
The AI in my battle rhythm everyday:
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The AI in my battle rhythm everyday: