Cooper

As a parent, you could not waterboard this out of me.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Musician at a Stravinsky premiere be like

Hell of a campaign slogan.

Well, I learned something horrific today.

Today a student asked me about homomorphism vs homeomorphism. So of course I talked about the Nicene Creed. #ChidiMoment

I have my multivariable calculus students make memes each term. There's always something fun in there. This year's cake is taken (so far) by the phrase "linear algebra truthers".

Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

This is what we are trying to do in MATH 1400.

Zorn was a socialist in pre-war Germany. He spoke in a raspy voice ever since Nazi thugs battered his throat in a 1933 street fight. But he lived to the ripe old age of 87 and died in Bloomington, Indiana. So yes: let's name more things and people after Zorn!

He has Hollywood leading man looks and he speaks with moral clarity. That's it, really.

ah but Y^X is Hom(X,Y), internally

Normally I get mad at Google Photos for serving me emotionally intense "memories". But this is making me happy-cry. (Sorry, other train commuters.)

"So what does it mean to be in the union? It means improving your material circumstances, thereby increasing your personal and political freed--" "Dr. Cooper, I think the question was about unions of sets." "Oh. Right." Putting the Theory in set theory over here.

What's hilarious is (at least since 2018) the California imports that Texas conservatives complain about tend to favor the GOP and it's the Texans from birth who vote blue. Those performatively-Texan asshats? Newcomers to a man.

no....no!!!!!

All twinkies are meat twinkies if you're brave enough.

I didn't have the heart to post about this last week. But my dad passed. He was a genuinely amazing person. Wonderful man and dad and grandpa. The definition of a wife guy (complimentary). Anyway. Here's some info about him. www.atlantafuneralhome.com/obituaries/R...

The cheesesteak is only 75% of Philly's personality. The other 25% is roast pork with broccoli rabe.

All I'm saying is, "Cooper Intelligence" has a nice ring to it.

It so happened, @icpetrie.bsky.social, that I passed your office today. You weren't in. So we shall remain unintroduced-in-real-life.

My take on such things is a mashup of Bloom's Taxonomy and Saint Paul: "When I was in high school student, I recalled as a high school student, I understood as a high school student, I applied as a high school student; but when I became an adult, I put away high-school things."

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

This is beautiful.

You've Got Some Nerve (Lemma) Coming Back Here After What You Pulled: Betrayal and Payback in Simplicial Games

Accurate

No, that's a puzzle game where the columns and rows all have to have exactly one of the digits. What we need Ed Sheeran to do is Sengoku.

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

When the Bird’s at the door And you’re missing Lenore Nevermoré

These dudes are so fuckin high on their own supply. Asimov wrote a version of this (The Evitable Conflict) and it was way more realistic than these bozos can come up with.

Who wants to join a writing group with me so I can get my math papers finished? My available times are Sunday 5:30-6:30 a.m., Monday-Thursday on lunch break unless I have grading or a faculty meeting, and Friday from 1:30 to oh shoot I have to pick up my kid o’clock.