Jim McGrath
@jimmcgrath
Instructional Designer and college teacher in Greater Boston. yes i am a doctor. Hope everyone’s having a good day.
first time opening up a comic to cut up for collages and discovering that a previous owner beat me to the punch lol
Charlie passed away peacefully today. He was my best bud but it was time to say goodbye. He was 16 1/2 and I was lucky to know him for ten of those years. ❤️
last night I didn’t sleep very well and then this morning I read Emily Wilson’s description of Odysseus rolling around restlessly like a hot dog cooking in a 7-11
excited to find some time to dig into @roopikarisam.bsky.social’s new book, Data Empire! Just wrapping up a week in my Digital Studies summer course on Text As Data so it is apparently The Summer of Data over here.
oh no it was even better: he saw a clown die when the tiny car it was driving exploded
Working on a summer graduate-level Digital Studies course with an emphasis on AI implications and the most important work is done: I have a cool image for my Canvas home page.
the bad vibes of Alexei Lalas are poisoning the air around Boston Common, causing plants to wilt, dogs to bark, children to scream, Scotland fans to drink water
got out to some fun Boston watch parties this weekend. tons of Scotland fans downtown Friday night and a loud Cambridge crowd cheering for Haiti on Saturday. the World Cup is the best!
me watching that comeback as a New Yorker who defected to the Celtics. sports! what a ride, baby
second time seeing Amyl & The Sniffers. great show, super fun Boston crowd. also if you are catching this tour, get there early if Party Dozen is opening! they rock!
stopped by Northeastern on the way somewhere else to get a sandwich and the deli has this AI slop soup sign
started reading Mónica Ojeda’s Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun (translated into English by Sarah Booker) and loving it so far
Boston area pals who enjoy cake: Oakleaf made an amazing custom one for my wife’s birthday featuring our cranky longhaired son
a little bit of cash and a lot of vocational awe will go a long way in higher ed unfortunately
at some point the Gen Xers and millennials need to reckon with the reality that many of us are the ones spending way too much time on our phones
haven’t looked at the comments yet on this article but the Boston Globe reporter who wrote it is probably wishing they asked a colleague about the name on that jersey
congrats on the book @lbmcgrath.bsky.social! Harvard Book Store is serving them up!
nice morning commute read: this English translation of a Borges sonnet by Rhina P. Espaillat: newcriterion.com/article/thre...