Window shopping is an under-rated hobby.

Very interesting! I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

That sounds so cool - and I can definitely see why you'd want to get small localities there! There's so many interesting governance issues around that, especially given disagreements between federal, state, and local. (A group of us tried something similar with COVID, but the project fizzled)

I hadn't planned an independent methods component, but it could be interesting if I get something useful. I'm doing N largest cities instead of all localities in a jurisdiction (which has been the approach on all my previous local data efforts) - I'm curious to see how this changes data collection!

There's a legal epi and legal epi-adjacent component (think data derived from local ordinances and requests for policy documents from local agencies - I suspect both will be making relevant policy, and the implementation component is also interesting).

I would really love for someone to write an academic “how-to” book for post-tenure faculty, covering this amongst other things. They have similar books for graduate students and entry levels, but it would be great to have something focusing on the mid career stage.

(Super exciting! You may want to think about collecting data to evaluate the effect of this on productivity, etc. - there's a bunch of cool policy problems here!)

People go crazy for these - sallysbakingaddiction.com/chewy-chocol...

If you find a combination of mute words that actually works here, please let me know.

You're too kind!!! (This is the pattern, in case it helps - www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...). I hope you're having fun with your knitting projects!!!

Retro baking is so much fun! (I draw the line at Jello though)

(Also I hadn’t realized how much better the iPhone’s camera has gotten)

It has been 20 years and I am still mad.