It’s been a long time. I definitely think that Kindermord is right: you have a fixed total limit of how much you can write in a particular week, and if you’re tweeting, you can’t really be blogging. Similarly, if you’re blogging, you probably can’t be thesis writing or whatever.
Thesis writing. Thankfully, I am not [...]
It is said that in the past, Ancient Greek instructors objected to teaching pupils to read and write too soon because they would lose the cognitive discipline of keeping everything in their heads. The same argument has been repeated over many generations, up until today’s arguments about the use of google and wikipedia.
It’s interesting [...]
When mid-June comes around, I will be the last Covenator in education. I was ecstatic to hear that Dr. Dixie has achieved the summit of her work, and I hope to plant my flag on the doctoral mountaintop with hers.
To put it in the vernacular, I hope you will join me in a “Woot! [...]
Actual text of an e-mail I received, minus incriminating details:
To: CCE postdoc and graduates
Subject: Crocodile heads
If you are expecting a package of croc heads
please see [this guy] (x1234) in the
Chemistry Stockroom ([this place]).
There was insufficient information on the
package to determine the addressee.
THANK YOU,
Anne