Everyone gets zero guesses about what I'm doing on this, the last day of Thanksgiving break which also happens to be the day before December 1st.

Whoops, forgot to tag him: @tqthq.bsky.social !

That is AMAZING.

Shared with permission: It's quarter-zip fleece season here in the north. You can't quite see the khaki pants but they match too. I told him that we could have coordinated on the shirt color.

Yeah, agreed. Nonetheless, I've seen problems that have students create normal lines from normal vectors (which is easier, but still). Somebody once wanted it, it got added in to Stewart, and... here we are.

Nope, don't teach it. I agree that it's probably either (1) super-duper lookahead to Calc 3 / vector analysis (which nobody will remember and can be taught quickly anyhow) or (2) algebra review about slopes.

You have my sympathy. Sincerely - guy with a common name who adopted Gmail early.

Autumn Meadowhawk, enjoying this hot and extremely dry autumn. The critters in my garden are still bringing me joy.

This beauty, munching on my winter carrots, will apparently become an Eastern Swallowtail.

I did not have the heart to move it. Fewer carrots for me, more for it.

This reminds me that I need to have my students translate "there's someone for everyone" into a properly quantified form. And then think about it reallllllly carefully.

Must have forgot that the gas game plays with Price is Right rules.

Tree frog on plastic deck chair. These guys will do ANYTHING to avoid actually living in a tree.