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Tweets
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 1 day ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 1 day ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 2 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 3 days ago
- I believe it is presently colder in my office than it is outside. But they have screwed shut my window, so I can't check. 4 days ago
- Chatting with Ron & Jon about "interactive media" on Hangout live. (Still getting a handle on the process.) http://t.co/0V7qKRIF 6 days ago
- Seems that an old blog post of mine, "Does Mitt Romney Hate Noodles" is suddenly getting new traffic: http://t.co/ELSrWuHG 6 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
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 ones [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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