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Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Department
My spouse is not a Taylor Swift fan. In general, I'm the bigger music fan, and so any exposure she gets to pop music is through me. -
Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Department
Ok, this is brilliant. Tortured poets discuss Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Gift link: https://wapo.st/3W8MCNG -
What music are you listening to right now?
Live at the Fillmore East in honor of Dickie Betts passing away. -
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***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
Spouse had hail in SW CR near Kirkwood. -
Best Campustown Bars by Decade
FAC with the faculty from Moly Bio buying pitchers of Anchor Steam. Good times. -
O.J. Simpson dead at 76
This song came out years before OJ murdered Nicole. -
Financial Aid Advice
I think it can be what you make of it. I’ve had students in the last 5 years who have landed summer gigs at Fermilab, Argonne National Lab, UT-Austin, ISU, U of Iowa Carver School of Med, U of Iowa School of Biomed Engineering, Drexel, Arizona, etc. There are programs tailored for CC students... -
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Worst city in Iowa?
Tell me you’ve never been to Amarillo or College Station without telling me. -
Worst city in Iowa?
Don’t count out Cedar Rapids when it comes to locally owned restaurants. https://www.thegazette.com/restaurants/locally-owned-independent-restaurants-now-outnumber-chains-in-cedar-rapids/ -
What TV show are you streaming right now?
I enjoyed watching the documentary Boys State, and the new documentary Girls State. I went to Badger Boys State (in WI) when I was in high school, so it was pretty interesting to see how it was the same, and how it had changed from the late 90s. -
2024 solar eclipse
I just appreciate the depth of our understanding regarding the movement of things in our solar system and its predictability. -
2024 solar eclipse
Nope. https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i33/Chemistry-explains-shouldnt-stare-solar-eclipse-without-protection.html If you can't find proper glasses, you can make yourself a pinhole camera. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera/