You need to simply replace the Avengers with “Graduate Students” all who will end up with PhD degrees: defective yeti: Wish-I-Could-Draw Comics!
Also add in a panel the next day about how easily the ‘Billy bookcases’ fall apart when you move to start your first job.
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as the conference travel season begins.
Viagra helps jet-lagged hamsters, maybe humans, too: study – Yahoo! News
It seems to only work going east though. Will all flights now go only from west to east? The flight from Eupope to New York is going to take a looooong time now.
I heard what may be an urban legend from a friend. They took a long plane ride and the man beside them was watching pr0n on his laptop. Eeeck.’
via slate.
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to use ‘track changes’ in word if you are simply modifying someone else’s homework. Because you might forget to ‘accept changes.’
Categories: students
My favorite quote:
A friend who’s active on the Wikipedia community once summed up her approach to life: “Don’t let assholes rent space in your head.”
via:
Seth’s Blog: The Troll Whisperer
Are good journal editors like ‘troll whisperers?’
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Something seems fishy here…
“The Answer is NOT always C” by Jeff Rosenberg on CollegeHumor
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that I use for class. But my desktop is a mac. Today I used keynote to build a presentation, the first time in a while after a semester of powerpoint. Man, powerpoint sucks relative to keynote. Cutting and pasting in pdf’ed equations, tables, and graphs in keynote is great for making technical presentations.
I know that I could use the latex packages to do the same, but putting in pictures in latex is painful. And I have not yet found a good clean style I like in ‘prosper.’
Boring blog, but I got nothing today.
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Each year when I write my final, I learn something new about the material. I teach a course which emphasizes problem solving and some of the basic tools in the field. Every year, there are new innovations in practice, and you can use the basic tools to analyze them. And each year I realize how important the basic tools are, relative to teaching the new buzzwords. Over time, I have taught less and less material, but taught the material I did cover better and better.
The best email to get is from a recent grad who says “The material in your course really prepared me for dealing with new innovations in practice” Such emails don’t come often, but when they do, it really makes it all worthwhile.
Mungowit’s End: Someday We’ll Look Back on This, and It Will All Seem Funny
I am surprised that US officials did not simply ask the Canadian government aboot the coin. But what do I know?
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