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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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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 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