Hang in there! Our forecast is showing a little mini summer starting tomorrow. Three whole days of the big yellow thing. I have visitors arriving tomorrow and I'll be able to say, "It's always like this."
Don't get me started. I was delighted when the US war planes dropped out.
Very old aircraft can be nice mechanical objects, but so can typewriters. And I wouldn't choose to spend three days in a typewriter museum.
In the 80s I spent two days working at the Farnborough air show, recording sound with a video crew. That ostentatious celebration of killing machines cured me of any inclination to ever visit another air show.
Speaking of typewriters... how to stop students using AI.
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. The exercise started in 2023, as Grit Mathias Phelps grew frustrated that her German language students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. The revival is part of a national trend toward old-school testing methods like in-class pen-and-paper exams and oral tests to prevent AI use for assignments on laptops.
Xas 
Bob LeFridge 
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