I don’t have any problems with that.
Archive for December, 2009
Disapproving cat disapproves of snow
Posted in cats, tagged catmint, disapproving cat, snow on 21 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Especially when it is taller than he is. Don’t worry, Xeno — I harvested most of the catmint before the frost came!
And as long as you love me so…
Posted in Backstory, cats, tagged scroll saw kitties, snow, swarovski crystal on 20 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Sic transit Saab
Posted in Backstory, tagged care and feeding of brands, GM idiocy, marketing FAIL, saab story on 19 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
As snow blankets the area, a moment of respect, please, for the brand of car that would have loved this stuff:
As with Saturn and Opel, GM decided to make all their brands use the same platforms, rather than letting variation thrive, with sadly predictable results. If GM was going to homogenize things anyway, why bother keeping those brand marks in the first place?
Sigh [which I don’t know how to spell in Swedish].
Oh wait — bonus round!
Posted in Musing about Teaching, tactless observations, tagged fish fish fish, further academic fail, silvery scales, where's the sushi knife? on 17 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
When the student’s mother writes to plead their case to you.
Word’s comment: “Oh, for the love of fish!!”
And so:
Nothing personal, but…
Posted in Backstory, Festival of Bad Writing, Musing about Teaching, tactless observations, tagged signs of doom, snakes, spiders, student follies past and present, various epic fails, waiting for the anvil to hit someone terribly deserving, why me? on 16 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The following may be harbingers of doom:
When you post instructions for the exam a week in advance, and the darlings show up in your office 15 minutes beforehand to ask if you could print out a copy of the reading for them.
When you give an extension because someone “didn’t have the document with them” at the time of the final presentations, you arrive at the agreed-upon time, wait, get nothing, and then 36 hours later the student appears asking “So what can I do now?”
When a student presentation clearly demonstrates that the person does not understand the implications of a basic statement about their chosen topic….and that topic was selected — by that student — 14 weeks ago.
When students forget that two-way video lets everybody see what everyone else is doing [or not] in front of their laptops.
When you ask a particularly-glassy-eyed student what they are thinking in the middle of the last study session of the semester, hoping that perhaps they’ve generated a thought by this point, and they answer the question “What are you thinking right now?” with “Oh, nothing. I’m just listening to everybody else talking…”
When you see this posted in the Physics Lab:
No, it’s you
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing on 16 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
From the letter column of a city newspaper:
“Is it just me or is this guy the best person we could have for this guy.”
NOT food!
Posted in Food, tagged caramel, dubious bacon products, foodies, I can't believe you're eating that on 15 December, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Well, but I’m sure the bacon-o-philes out there would just plotz:
Lard Caramels [i.e., replace the butter in the traditional caramel recipe with rendered hog fat]
Folks, I have enough trouble with butter as a concept as it is….this…this…? Blargh…..
More interesting content soon….
That substantial thing what is important
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing on 8 December, 2009| 1 Comment »
Ummm…
If we are to make sure that this disease is substantial enough in American families, the data needs to be more sufficient and concrete to make an accurate conclusion.
Yeah, and you should get some government funding to study that further? No, I don’t think so.
And what’s this about someone searching for “a sentence containing ‘pedestal'” and landing here? [And out of the back storerooms of my brain, I hear a ghastly echo of Anne Murray singing “You put me high/Upon a pedestal/So high that I could almost see Eternity…”]
Thankfulness is relative
Posted in Backstory, Festival of Bad Writing, My brain on 3 December, 2009| 1 Comment »
For example, I haven’t seen too many sentences like this one yet this semester:
“The bridge in this article is that because the scores of this test were rendered towards the fact that the nature of the counselling workforce has been altered.”
My Nikon is still out of commission, which is why you haven’t seen much new here in a while. I’ve actually written several pretty good essays in my head, but you don’t get to go there….
Rethorykal Questions 