Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 15hI haven’t quite made a “need coffee before my coffee error” today, but there’s still time. 051
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My closest childhood friend’s father - we lost touch after his family moved away in our early teens - was the 1st French Horn for the BSO in the 1990s. Friend and I got to sneak in to Symphony Hall… the ushers all knew him and were cool with it 010
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t think Ben’s Perfect Imperium would be a good idea. 000
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I keep meaning to get what I think might be the last key tool to get them Right: weird air-insulated baking sheets! 010
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeah, I have one recipe in my collection that passes that test… from my German by birth, British by upbringing, lived in the US the last 60+ years of her life late grandmother. Which, incidentally, are sensitive to protein level in flour (I need to buy Canadian pastry flour to do them). 130
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Last week’s GBBO resulted in me howling at the TV (damn mutant-ass cookies). Also, this suggests you want Baked Good Discourse as a distraction from current unfun and I applaud your commitment to instigating chaos. 1140
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The Old Heresies: a History of Psychology” is on the list of books I won’t write (you probably want an actual historian for that) 120
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I had lab equipment show up in a proper wooden shipping crate a couple years back! Didn't keep it though - no space. 020
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When someone has a take that’s so pig-ignorant that Howl needs to hide from it… they get to meet the Corn. It’s happy to oblige me. 140
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The block early, block often ethos of BlueSky does wonders. Someone is being an ass? The Corn Hungers. 1110
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I will happily loan you my 1kg bag of Snack Ginger to beat people over the head with as needed. Hell, we can just acquire a 6kg case for Cranial Persuasion. 120
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Congratulations! May everything be uneventful! 040
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean, easy to use compared to what? The Canadian Common CV? 010
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well, it’s nice when Monday morning has entertainment 130
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Growing up, ours tended to languish for an extra week or two. As we tended to decorate with vegetables, and early frosts in New England didn’t do great things to them, this may have been strategic in my father’s part. 020
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Humans: need to be up early Howl: I got you (feline horking alarm goes off 15 min before the alarm) At least we got him off the bed 190
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean, that would explain why they look like demonic cheburashka. 040
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Good grief. May the urine commentary return to normal levels soon! 050
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Signs point to "I want to be a Feline Overlord" 1100
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah. That one isn't for me either. I like actual pumpkin... but pumpkin pie spice? Eh, other people can enjoy it. 010
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I've had one in my office every year since 2022, and the very best of them wind up on the walls. 020
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can understand pumpkin spice lattes (even if they don’t do it for me), but this makes less sense. 171
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One third of the meatball batch - which generated 93(!) meatballs roughly the size of golf balls - is becoming dinner. The other two-thirds is in the freezer, and I'll vacuum bag them in reasonable quantities for future cooking. 150
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I picked up my 2027 Page-a-day this weekend! 110
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You know it's Serious Projects Time when I'm actually using our double ovens. [roasting three sheet trays of meatballs, some for today and some to freeze for future needs] 1100
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sunday afternoon? Time for Culinary Projects! 1210
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Amusingly, the last calibration that the new one had was from 2006. When it would have been brand new. 040
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I bought the old one off eBay in 2012 for about $200 USD, and plowed another $200 or so into new printheads and ink. Today's was about $600 CAD, and a modern printer that is at least as capable would have been more like $4500-5000 CAD 190
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The family quip here is that each sequel is 50% the quality of the previous installment. 140
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yup. I've not stepped into a movie theatre since about 2018. More enjoyable to watch at home with my spouse and our cats. Also, my drinks cabinet has more interesting things in it. 030
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It also means that I have been known to describe Matt Lucas as “Smiling Feyd-Rautha” in the present season of Taskmaster. 061
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I watched both back to back on a flight between Berlin and Montreal in August. Perhaps not the intended viewing experience, but as a fellow fan of the book, deeply enjoyable. 230
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Having pretty much run my old Designjet 130 into the ground, I now have a new-to-me Designjet 130. Which is a 20 year old inkjet. That still makes gorgeous art. 1100
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026An excellent welcoming committee in St Mary’s, ON 0190
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Nope - I think this was something inherited from various MIT/Harvard labs... pretty sure it's chock-full of c.2000 grad students and other trainees... 020
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Mapped FFAs with one back in my time as a postbac RA. None of those pics were dignified. 130
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One particular face database I have been known to deride as “the least dangerous gang ever” 190
Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have been known to eat pure citric acid. By the spoonful. Admittedly, I haven’t done this in 25+ years. So, I know this experience. 040