Holy cow, I looked it up and *I* am older than this guy

www.lego.com/en-us/themes...

Orchids, yes! Not sure about Christmas cactus.

Take that, university consultants who think I might have somehow run across these essays through an AI prompt, without being guided to it by a truly great professor. I mean, I suppose that's the plan they're working on, but 🤷‍♀️

Honors Western Civ, never regretted for one minute the time spent on the 10K+ pages of reading

I certainly had no sense in 1986 that I'd need this, down the road. But I read it anyway, just in case. And now? Well, what do you know, we seem to find ourselves in a fix where this sort of essay turns out to be relevant, and useful

I presume my remembering this sort of thing is why a big group of people would prefer that I had not had the opportunity to study the liberal arts and sciences at a public university. I got excellent grades, because I did the reading. Anyway, I remembered this. Always do the reading.

"It will never happen as long as we daily acknowledge, extol, and strengthen—and do not sever ourselves from—the most perceptible of (the encirclement’s) aspects:  Lies."

"The circle—is it closed?  And is there really no way out?  And is there only one thing left for us to do, to wait without taking action?  Maybe something will happen by itself?

(As one does.)

I was all smug about getting it done in under an hour, until I remembered "this is designed for an 8-year-old to succeed at this," LOL

Imma bring her some Kernza flour, that stuff is terrific in sourdough

I just love hearing Garth Hudson on this version, too

like...things happened well before you noticed them, Kaitlyn. Whole traditions, millennia.

see also: "Aw, man! Someone tore the page I need out of this phone book"

I thought we were using waterfowl as the standard unit of measurement for asteroids. Can they break this down into swans or mallards for us?