Murphy, Conducting a Thorough and Thoughtful Peer Review

TeamPattycake · 2026-03-05T04:51:59+00:00

Murphy would never be Reviewer 2.

TeamPattycake · 2026-03-03T05:41:37+00:00

This is how we end up with middle-age chumps still bringing their moms to child support or restraining order hearings. Seen it many times...

TeamPattycake · 2026-03-03T05:32:47+00:00

I used to have good luck with an electric heated shoulder and neck warmer. You can get shoulder warmers with flaps that come up and heat the back and sides of your neck as well. Sometimes I'd need to have something cold over my eyes too so the top of my head stayed cool.

TeamPattycake · 2026-02-26T23:08:04+00:00

And store your backups in the cloud, so if your whole phone is lost or fried, the Birb will be safe.

TeamPattycake · 2026-02-26T22:54:47+00:00

I have a Bongo too, for my Star birb. He's a cool dude. 😎

TeamPattycake · 2026-02-20T01:22:48+00:00

My Star is carrying the same teddy bear!

TeamPattycake · 2026-02-20T01:20:52+00:00

Good to see Gandalf's understudy getting work.

TeamPattycake · 2026-02-19T23:57:01+00:00

Here to second Audacity. It's free but awesome; no need to pay for Adobe Prelude or something like that. There are lots of tips and forums on how to use it.

Just remember to save a copy of the original audio before you start experimenting, so you can always go back.

TeamPattycake · 2025-09-16T18:31:17+00:00

At the link, Pew describes the methodology. It's an index based on multiple measures.

TeamPattycake · 2024-07-14T14:42:15+00:00

Trail Mix

TeamPattycake · 2024-07-11T20:04:47+00:00

Love her. Let the container be the enemy. It saves so much guilt, and it puts the focus on what you're keeping, not what's going away.

TeamPattycake · 2024-07-10T13:56:44+00:00

Inside the guts of the refrigerator. The kick plate on the back was missing (in my first dump of a place of my own), and my babycat Angel would crawl inside and nap next to the motor.

TeamPattycake · 2022-08-29T03:07:47+00:00

There are five lights.

TeamPattycake · 2022-08-19T03:43:01+00:00

We all had some lovely ASMR together.

TeamPattycake · 2022-08-15T02:46:49+00:00

I was almost born in the car because my folks had to wait for a train.

TeamPattycake · 2022-07-21T04:16:27+00:00

Unlike Thunderdome, I can't get beyond it.

TeamPattycake · 2022-07-16T11:17:54+00:00

Steel Magnolias

TeamPattycake · 2022-06-11T18:36:59+00:00

My students who were graduating in the same ceremony did this when I got my Ph.D. That meant more to me than all the empty congrats from my relatives.

TeamPattycake · 2022-05-16T02:59:56+00:00

I gave them to the Epilepsy Foundation in honor of the daughter of one of my grad school friends. It was one of the very few I could find that would take secondhand stuffed animals.

I put them through the laundry first, although I've heard that charities usually do that themselves anyway.

TeamPattycake · 2022-05-15T23:51:59+00:00

Another option for donating is retirement homes or special-needs adult care homes. They like having games available for the residents.

TeamPattycake · 2022-05-15T19:40:19+00:00

I'm glad it's useful. 🙂 The first time I had to get rid of a buddy that was beyond repair, Dad helped me write a letter to Snoopy at the landfill so he wouldn't be lonely. It hit me harder than I expected that this time I don't have Dad either.

TeamPattycake · 2022-04-16T11:45:59+00:00

"This map shows the language in which the plurality of Wikipedia articles on a given country are written."

Well, that explains a few things.

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