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Author Archives: jbj
One sign you’re becoming yet another absent-minded professor
When you spend three minutes staring out of your office window wondering how to figure out whether it’s stopped raining, the better to return books to the library . . . you may be an absent-minded prof. Not good. (One … Continue reading
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Another Dickens adaptation
Fleshbot is reporting a new film version of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist: In case you were wondering: yes, “Oliver Twinks” is the homo porno version of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, just in case that sad looking waif asking “Please, sir, … Continue reading
No thoughts, just heat.
“Seeing lousy movies / but only for the a.c.” –The Hold Steady, “Hostile, Mass.” What happens when you visit your parents during the hottest week in southeastern Virginia in a decade? Underdog on Monday, The Bourne Ultimatum on Tuesday, … Continue reading
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September as Memorize Poetry Month
Here’s a sentence I’ll be quoting forever when my students complain that I make them memorize poems: One poem per week…how difficult can that be? At 32 poems, Deborah Ager’s agitating for September to be “Memorize Poetry Month,” with participants … Continue reading
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Penn CFP list
I don’t think this information has been disseminated very widely, so: According to the list’s main page at the UPenn website, the list is (at least temporarily) dead: Due to technical and administrative difficulties, we can no longer offer mass … Continue reading
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Yet another reason not to like RateMyProfessors.com
Today I found out that my parents check up on A’s and my teaching by reading RateMyProfessors.com regularly. Awesome.
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A toddler’s view of language
The 4-year-old showed a keen grasp of linguistics / poetic language this weekend: The Little Man has been out of his mind with anticipation this weekend, and also from the heat. As a result, he’s been spending some time in … Continue reading
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Vitalchek is terrible
We don’t have a birth certificate for the Little Man. Obviously we are terrible parents, but the fact of the matter is, in Georgia you have to wait X number of weeks after the birth of your child to send … Continue reading
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Inbox sickness
It can’t possibly be good that, while listening to Merlin Mann’s “Inbox Zero” talk, I responded to a blog comment w/in about a minute, caught up on some blog feeds, and since both my e-mail accounts are up and set … Continue reading
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Texas: Finally solving *real* problems in education
From this morning’s Inside Higher Ed: Policies that allow students to try out courses and drop them by a certain deadline are a time-honored way for colleges to encourage students to sign up for classes they’re not sure about or … Continue reading
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