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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Office hours
Once again, I am going to have people sign up for office hours this year. It seems that they still stop by when I am working, which is cool, but this way they know that I’ll be there and they will have my full attention.
I’ve also put up the (super simple) script I use [...]
Wrist GPS
The Garmin Forerunner 201 just made it to the top of my Christmas list. I’ve been in the market for an inexpensive GPS receiver for a while now, looking for something durable and ultraportable that will talk to my Zaurus. Though I may still need to do a little fiddling to get them to talk, [...]
Good advice
I’ve been assembling some things to give to new grads to help them figure out the process of being a graduate student. I plan to distribute Prof. Pang’s advice in the next meeting.
I usually tell them to carry a small notebook and a pen; forgot too at this year’s orientation. Too bad the [...]
Guns on board
The Transportation Safety Administration released a barrage of PR today, hitting every news channel possible on what must be a slow news day. (Where’s Korea again? Oh, way over there.) Their message: airport screeners are protecting us from passengers carrying weapons aboard airliners.
And boy are they! Since February of last year, they’ve seized almost 1,500 [...]
Moral minority
Oui (Now defunct porn mag): Is there a code of dos and don’ts in a championship?
Schwarzenegger (Current republican frontrunner in California gubernatorial race): Of course; but when you become a star almost anything goes. It’s like Ali doing something dirty in the ring — not many people are going to take it too seriouisly. You’re [...]
Least wired class… ever!
Had great plans to make the Communication Theory seminar more tech-enabled this year, but no time to make it happen. When I found out that we would have 28 graduate students in the seminar, I kind of went back to the drawing board. 28 students in a very seminary class (i.e., much of it is [...]
Gorgeous gorges