On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Who owns the intarweb?
Why, they do. (Link courtesy of Prometheus 6.)
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Trekkies, unite!
There’s a Star Trek fan convention in Indy during Thanksgiving weekend. I’m torn. Do I visit WO’s family, visit my family (or some branch of it), or go to the Trek/sci-fi convention and rest at home for the week (or go hiking nearby)? I really am torn. Christopher Judge will be there!
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“Blood” ain’t what makes me dance
Summer‘s “Of one blood or, the hidden self” grabbed and held my attention since I saw it yesterday. Using [tag]Schwarzenegger[/tag]’s recent fiasco with a released tape of his racial comments regarding California state Assemblywoman [tag]Bonnie Garcia[/tag], Summer hits on some crucial points regarding the use of one’s “blood” as an explanation and reason for behavior associated with a particular race. For instance, Schwarzeneggar said during this recorded meeting: “I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all very hot,” the governor says on the recording. “They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.” (BlackNews.com, “Schwarzenegger Apologizes…
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Professorial sadness
I went to visit a very, very well-respected professor today to give a few ideas that I thought could improve a course I’m in. I thought I was respectful and mindful of my status as a student (i.e. not [yet] a professor and not very well educated on pedagogy). I was met with the honestly outraged, “Are you trying to tell me how to run my course?” The feeling I got was, “Who the hell do you think you are?” The prof brought up my wish to be a professor, and told me pretty firmly that I’d find things different when I was on the other side of the podium.…
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Midnight linkage
Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords – CyberKnowledge Blog » Yessir. The results are about what you’d expect, but the read is interesting. The unlabeled graphs… less interesting. 🙂 chivalry.net » Ironman Wisconsin 2006 » This is an awesome race report. Not that I’m especially gaga over Ironmans (although they’re cool)–I just think the entry is very well written and entertaining.