Historical Archives
One theme of yesterday’s Wednesday Whining was homework. I added my own homework whine before I’d read everyone else’s and was tickled to see so many other people who have issues with their kids’ homework. I’ve written about homework before and Geeky Boy’s (and our) struggle with it. Pretty much everyone at Phantom’s was annoyed…
Computing departments at colleges and universities often have a bad reputation. In Dilbert, there’s a character called Mordac, the preventer of Information Services, who denies assistance and equipment to everyone. Often, the people in college computing departments are viewed the same way. People see them as slow to respond and difficult to work with. Not…
For the last few weeks, Geeky Girl has been dealing with a mean girl who also happens to be her best friend. Now we’ve never been particularly fond of the best friend. She’s kind of bossy and whiny, but we wouldn’t have put her in the mean girl category. At the parent-teacher conference in early…
Monday always seems to come around far too quickly. I feel like just one more day and I’d be satisfied. This is going to be my first full week back at work post holiday, which probably means it’s going to feel very long. Next week I’m going to a conference and ditto for the following…
So the New York Times has decided that the reason democrats won some key congressional seats is because they recruited some macho guys to run. They use my own home state as an example: The fruits of those efforts arrived in Washington last week. Take, for example, three House freshman from Pennsylvania. Patrick Murphy, the…
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One of the most compelling things about reading faculty blogs is the way they provide an inside look into what faculty life is really like. I wish I could do the same here, but is it interesting enough? What would be an interesting perspective from the staff point of view? We get a good view…
A few weeks ago, as I was shopping for Christmas presents on Amazon, I looked at my wish list and my recommendation list and lamented that I hadn’t had time to read for pleasure. Now that I’m not teaching, working full time and writing a dissertation, I can finally get back to reading. I thought…
The title is one of my favorite Bush quotes. I love passive voice. It lets us get away with all kinds of things. One of my professors, when explaining passive voice used the example of going out to dinner with his brother. When it came time to pay, his brother said, “My wallet was left…
Barbara tagged me and I thought this would be an interesting thing for the new year. Is there anything you all don’t know about me? Of course. Here’s a few: I used to sing in a church choir. I even sang a few solos. It was the one thing I liked about church. I still…
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