Eric Pinder

Author of COUNTING DINOS, HOW TO SHARE WITH A BEAR, and other books about animals. VCFA grad. Teacher. Occasionally able to ride a unicycle without falling.

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In the old days, you'd snail-mail a request to see King Lear or whatever to Netflix using special red envelopes. A few days later, they'd send a theater troupe downriver to your town by steamboat, hence the origin of the term "streaming."

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A new poem, dedicated to adjunct professors. https://t.co/o4EzWKQTYP

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@OrkneyLibrary Punsters will definitely want to take a gondor at these.

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In hope of getting at least one bookish thing done today, I've changed my to-do list to this: 1) find pirate treasure map, 2) invite wizard to tea, 3) buy candy bar with golden ticket, 4) contemplate tesseracts, 5) exercise/walk away from Omelas

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@RosebudBenOni Suddenly remembering the theme song to "3-2-1 Contact" too. The best nostalgia is science nostalgia.

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This is the story of a shy person/night owl who somehow ended up in a career requiring awfully early wake-up times and lots of public speaking....

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@nicoleva The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood. Of the fractured variety, The Centaur by John Updike. If a book of short stories will do, Xo Orpheus, edited by Kate Bernheimer.

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It's weird being just the right age to be able to simultaneously amaze younger friends & relatives with ancient, arcane, Merlin-like wizardry (reading cursive) and older ones with impossibly complex NASA-level technological skills (restarting the WiFi router).

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Snowfall, shovels, slippery roads but maybe not for long. February 28 feels like the Wednesday of winter.

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@MarknessVisible Cookbooks, but only if the recipes require old stoves.

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An anti-ode to Monday, starring Sisyphus: https://t.co/tQMI8SQrsg

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Chimney Pond was my favorite childhood playground, though I never got to see Orion over the peaks like this. But I did once wake up to see a curious moose sticking its antlered head into our lean-to.

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The Hunter -

This was one of those moments of profound awe and wonder, of feeling connected, standing under the stars on Chimney Pond beneath Mount Katahdin as the constellation Orion, the Hunter, rose above the peak night before last.

#maine #mountkatahdin #katahdin

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The saddest thing about being a grownup is the way snow changes from "play" (sledding, snow days, snowballs, snow forts) to "chore."

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🎵Papers ungraded and emails unwritten. Snowdrifts to shovel, as big as Great Britain. Trying to rest when the phone starts to ring... these are a slew of my tedious things.

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While excavating a glacier, I found this Ice Age relic of unknown purpose. We believe Neanderthal hunters may have used it as a food cache, or possibly a musical instrument.

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Two days of snow. Nowhere to go. Cocoa, a blanket, a book.

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@MarknessVisible @MonicaBilson Seeing both of your names in the same thread is making me feel nostalgic. Department meeting at noon? I'll bring pizza.

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Pie. Music. Nap. Book. Movie. Repeat.

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Just typed "in-text citation for this information?" on a student paper, then thought, "Hey, that rhymes!" Now attempting to rhyme every comment, because grading might as well be fun.

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Today's commute expressed in iambic tetrameter:

In case you really want to know / I hate to drive in stupid snow

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@KRaySaulis Self-healing car, in Maine... Stephen King's Christine? Uh oh.