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teaching
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journal, teaching
F Book
More and more Facebook is coming to dominate the way I communicate online; I’m not sure how to feel about this, but I have to say it has resurrected relationships I thought had been lost forever.
I don’t have the reluctance about “friending” students that Manan, for instance, feels. It seems natural to me that they […] -
journal, library, meanwhile, teaching
black swans & other matters
02.14.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe Black Swan’s author may have at last given postmodernism something to hang its hat on. In particular, Taleb puts forth the notion that narrative-in-science, i.e., bell curves, misunderstood probability theory, confusing no-evidence and evidence-of-no, etc., lead to mass delusions regarding risk and leave us all with great big fat blind spots that cause us […]
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journal, meanwhile, teaching
progress?
01.24.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsLose 50 40 pounds.
Drink 2 glasses of red wine daily. (started tonight)
Finish novel draft #2 by my birthday. (hacking away)
Strictly maintain schedule & priorities. (pretty damn good so far)
Eliminate soda from my diet. (had about a six pack so far…)
Cardio 30 minutes daily. (averaging about 3 days per week)
Blog daily. (not so much)
Write 3 […] -
journal, meanwhile, teaching
desiderata
Second semester begins tomorrow; my classes start on tuesday. I will spend the day duct-taping together my syllabi, my assignments lists, and my course policies. Each semester, my course policies statement gets bitchier, and its tone gets more caustic. I regret that, but I also regret that about 80% of my students just don’t get […]
