Where I've been.
A number of things happened to me while I was on sabbatical. While most of these were marvelous (it was such a great year!), some of them occurred while I was absent and unable to defend myself. These...
View ArticleThese aren't just committee meetings.
As part of my new hard-shoes duties, I have been appointed to the Council For Divine Retribution. This is the board that oversees cases of academic misconduct. I agreed to this appointment for two...
View ArticleA joke any 8-year-old can appreciate.
I told the Angry Kid today about a grownup who works for us in the government who posted pictures of his penis on the web. This was really stupid, she agreed.Then I told her that his name was Mister...
View ArticleMy favorite student interaction of the year.
"Professor, can you tell me what's going to be on the exam? I don't have time to study everything."
View ArticleA film to watch.
At some point over the past year, I stumbled on this film. I highly recommend it. It's available on instant play at Netflix.I'd like to force some of my colleagues to watch it, à la A Clockwork...
View ArticleDon't know why there's no sun up in the sky.
Anubis has been with us for several months and we now have suspicions about how she became a stray. She was found in the Northern Wilds of Square State last July and languished at the Humane Society...
View ArticleParenting Joy #2714
The dentist can now yell at you for someone else's terrible oral hygiene.
View ArticleThis doesn't seem hard to me.
If the for-profit "universities" like Kaplan and Phoenix train their students as well as they claim, and if their students really get all the great-paying positions they brag about in the television...
View ArticleA hitherto unknown circle of hell.
Today finds me at a musical event sponsored by Ellesiouville's large neohippie community. Although outdoors, the smell of patchouli is stifling. Obnoxious vegan evangelists are lined up in front of the...
View ArticleThe more you know.
Have you ever wondered whether you are plagiarizing? Do you think you see a confusing gray area between paraphrasing a few sentences and cutting and pasting those same sentences from a web site? Does...
View ArticleI need a tip.
Is anyone familiar with Vyukrama Kapalaneti? I'm having some difficulty avoiding the drowning part.
View ArticleIs there an app for this?
I need a gmail filter that sends a custom vacation message to certain people. The filter needs to scan the message for the latest date mentioned and determine the geographical location of the sender....
View ArticleParenting joy #2997
The Angry Kid is in the shower singing "Rehab" at the top of her lungs.
View ArticleThis is what summer is supposed to be.
Let X equal the set of papers I wanted to complete this summer, where N is the cardinality |X| of the set X. Let Y equal the set of papers I actually completed this summer, where M is the cardinality...
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I used to hang out in a biker bar. Does that count?
see more The Daily WhatI'm not condoning anything this guy has alleged to have done, but it's nice to know that at least at one time there existed at least one tenured professor somewhere who belonged...
View ArticleSomeone hasn't thought this through.
I have received a missive from some LSU official informing me that, as a holder of LSU football season tickets, I am considered an athletic booster. One of the many things I am forbidden to do as an...
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On the fine art of writing a scientific paper: a secret message to my...
A scientific paper has to be written in such a way that people will read it. The problem is that very few people are going to want to read it. There is no white-coated scientist who spends her spare...
View ArticleQuiz time!
One of these species does not live under my deck. A virtual cookie for the first person to guess correctly!MiceRaccoonsSkunksGroundhogs
View ArticlePencils can be used as deadly weapons.
The collateral damage of the number of papers I have pushed out the door this year includes the amount of time I must now devote to responding to questions from copy editors. My 120 page manuscript for...
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