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☆ |Tenured Professor of Chemistry |Vanguard @OakwoodU Alum🦁/ @TAMU Aggie Century Club👍🏽|Faculty Fellow | Dad to 3| #ProfLife| PhD/MBA☆

Joined December 2008
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"Sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur Clarke
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I’m most excited to type texts in this form factor like the old two way pagers lol.
iPhone Duo has the same screen size as the smallest MacBook ever made. 7.6 inches. Except this one folds in half and fits in your pocket. Someone just used it as a full laptop. Both hands typing on the bottom half, app running on the top half. Split screen. Keyboard. On a phone. In a coffee shop. Apple spent 3 years telling everyone the MacBook Air is the most portable computer they make. Then they released a phone that does the same job and weighs 4 times less. The $999 MacBook Air has a 13-inch screen you can't use without a bag. The $1,999 iPhone Duo has a 7.6-inch screen you can use without pockets bigger than normal. One needs a charger by 5pm. The other lasts a full day and makes calls. Nobody is going to stop buying MacBooks tomorrow. But the moment someone sees a guy answering emails on a folded phone with two thumbs and a split keyboard, something clicks. The laptop was never about the screen. It was about having two halves. A display and an input. iPhone Duo has both. The people who laughed at foldables in 2023 are the same people who laughed at big phones in 2012. We know how that ended. This account covers every shift like this before it becomes obvious. Just saying.
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Sega
In the console war of the 90s were you Sega or Nintendo?
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My earliest memory of watching Alabama Football.
George Teague in the national championship game and there really isn’t a close 2nd
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I’ve discovered an uncomfortable truth. At this point I believe Parents didn't have McDonald's money because they were saving to be Grandparents. Do y’all see how these Grandparents are spending money?! “Fixed income” 😑
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This is only going to be held against this generation of students. Those of us with pre ChatGPT degrees:
The kids are cooked
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Even still in 2025, NBA arenas play Kris Kross’s Jump whenever there is a jump ball. 8 year old me is somewhere saying all the lyrics.
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They are going to give Jalen Brunson a statue in New York.
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What’s a sneaker take you have this is against the norm? Mine is, especially during summer, I prefer 11 lows to mids.
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In case you needed any other indication that Rolling Stone is dead as an authority of music, check out this most recent article they put out naming the 50 worst songs on classic albums. Number 20 on the list is from Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the song “The lady in my life.”
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Most true post I’ve seen about grad school yet. Best sleep I have ever had.
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The real important detail
Replying to @ClutchPoints
With TNT licensing 'Inside the NBA' to ESPN, they will continue to produce and maintain full editorial control.
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My favorite sleeper shoe of this year: the Jordan 2/3, featuring the upper of the Jordan 2 and the lower of the Jordan 3. Super comfortable. #FinalsWeek #ProfessorKicks
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YES
Do you wish Alabama had early voting? 🗳️
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I’m so hurt.
RIP DJ Clark Kent 🙏🏽🕊️
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Big news.
it's happening. Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you stream your own games next month. You'll also soon be able to buy a game using the Xbox app on Android and immediately stream it to your device. Full details below 👇 theverge.com/2024/10/11/2426…
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This is never good.
The water has been sucked out of Tampa Bay by Milton. Happened fast.
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Interesting thread
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
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Replying to @DanielMooreNLA
@DanielMooreNLA go ahead and start the sketch this weekend, please. lol
Win or lose, 17 year old Ryan Williams just made one of the greatest plays in Alabama history. This could go in the Daniel Moore’s if this is a win, folks.
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