"They're in Mexico...not the cartel section, the vacation section."
        -- Always good to clarify these things (January 2025).

"They key to student success is money, time, and proximity."
        -- Justin was talking about student pilots, but it probably is
           true, with different weightingm, in many endeavors (January 2025).

"Ugh.  So far, I've made all of the turns [turnovers] for the team."
  "Somebody had to do it.  Better you than me."
        -- Kaspar provides limited consolation to me.  Though to be fair,
           it was only the 2nd point in the frisbee game and it was
           pretty windy and somewhat cold out (January 2025).

"I have more self-control now."
  "I don't know about that."
"Well, I have less freezer space."
        -- Despite Ray's doubts, David believes he is less prone to fall
           for the siren call of lava cakes (January 2025).

"Wow!  You got it it because Cam said it."
        -- Emily 'praises' Alan echoing a trivia answer (February 2025).

"Hell is other people's code."
        -- Frank's take on Sarte's notion from No Exit (February 2025).

"Oh good, there's no pulse.  A guess that sounds a little weird."
        -- A nurse verifying that a vein was not an artery (February 2025).

People want to belong. Religion wants people to belong to them.
        -- Sue on the increased appeal of relgion to the young (May 2025).

"Americans do the right thing after they've exhausted all their options."
        -- The "Fresh Prince"'s (not that one) take on markets (May 2025).

"Silver is poor-man's gold."
        -- Non-ironic investment advice from John S (May 2025).

To be fair, it could be crack dog and not cocaine dog.
        -- Sue being pedantic on how to refer to the dog that got
           into its owner's stash, twice (June 2025).

"I'm about to make you as confused as a leader of a major English
speaking country."
        -- Someone about to make a request at the ticket table
           for the EHFC Pancake Breakfast (June 2025).

"I was going to say 'frisbee.'  I don't know why it came out as 'shrimp dick.'"
        -- Trying to provide any context, like how it was late and and we had
           had talked about mantis shrimp, wouldn't really explain Rob's
           surprising word choice (June 2025).

"$1496.25 is stupid.  So we should just put $1495."
        -- I guess $1495 is OK since it just implies the seller thinks 
           the buyer is stupid.  I didn't mention that to TA (June 2025).


There are more baseball code parity updates I need to do at some
point but it should all work as is currently.
        -- I spent time trying to figure out what Kevin meant with this 
           new hip programmer slang "baseball code." It was Google email 
           autocorrect of "base code."  Nnnggg... (June 2025).

"If there's one things I'm really good at, it's holding a grudge."
        -- Pierre plays to his strengths (July 2025).

"He's creepy for a German."
        -- What's telling is that Seb is German too (July 2025).

"You are such an anomaly, Frank!"
        -- I still don't use a smartphone; Brad still is shocked (July 2025).

"I have mixed feelings about AI."
  "It doesn't matter."
        -- I readily admit that Simson is right (July 2025).

"I don't trust anything for which there is no German word
('retreat' being one of those things)."
        -- Antonia has doubts about attending a Sanskrit Retreat (July 2025).


But we cannot prove its truth with anything short of an infinity of tests,
so the truth of scientific hypothesis always remains a bit elusive.  We
accept the truth of such hypotheses only after extensive testing fails to
falsify them.  This leads us to see science as the pursuit of disbelief.
The scientist is always striving to prove his or her theories false, and
accepts them as true only after extensive tries to falsify tyem fail.
This is in contrast to religion, wherin practitioners accept a premise
to be true until overwhelming evidence is provided to the countrary."
        -- George A. Hazelrigg, Research 101 For Engineers, date unknown.
           I saw this while reading up on NSF grants (October 2025).


Obviously it's a terrible time to break a 2FA method. On the other hand,
it's a natural time to break a 2FA method.
        -- Sadly, Judson is parodoxically correct (October 2025).

"Then I realized: students don't want to see me more than I don't
want to see them."
        -- Emily descibes the mutual awkwardness of seeing a student 
           outside of the classroom (Novmeber 2025).

"We'll play at Ray's house.  <pause>  And then at Emily's house."
        -- Alan trying to course-correct after remembering a second or two
           too late that both pay for and own the house (November 2025).

"Caring less is a good strategy for solving lots of problems."
        -- Emily did clarify she meant AFTER efforts to actually 
           fix a problem didn't work (November 2025).


Thank goodness I don't live next to the ocean.
Though the first time after I got home when I played that "sounds
of nature" ocean waves CD to fall asleep, it was distinctly unhelpful.  
"Wave - step - SNAP - drown drown drown"
        -- Tom, who lives in Boston, has a flashback to a recent
           experience in another ocean (December 2025).

"I am terrified of bees because they're just flying needles."
        -- Carina's trypanophobia justifies her apiophobia (December 2025).