Rank the Potatoes along the following from Non Satisfactory to Truly Exception:

Yumminess:

Roundness:

Grit and Motivation:

Potato-ness:

Creativity:

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the likelihood that you yourself would eat these potatoes is ___

how small are these potatoes? would you say they are in the top 5% or top 10% for Diminutiveness? how about Leadership?

my point is students are sometimes timid and I want to tell you that it is *ok* to write your story with you as the principle agent that makes choices and takes action based on goals, desires, and interests.

...but you don't *have* to do this; this is more of a stylistic preference.

wondering if youtube comments count as data

this is a riff about the Dreamworks Face joke

Karim Terje, Gardner Gates,
Mandlebrot and Karp, Ovitz,
dobai castro, popal queen,
Watson, axel bottstein!

we didn't start the fire...

they phrased it as "a brief ask", but then the ask is 12 specific questions that each need detailed consideration for anything like a serious answer; so it's more like "hey man, can you do me a super quick favor and help me move apartments?"

...I guess I should've been more grateful that time a big academic publisher asked me to do deep dive review on a book manuscript for the possibility of... 75$ gift card (Publishers: don't do that either)

I love the addition of a label that says "an accurate 1000-sided chiliagon' to something that isn't it, like a reverse 'The Treachery of Images' by Magrittte, like painting something that isn't a pipe and saying 'Ceci une pipe'

thank you!