Via Dave Sez, Chris Chase has all the J.J. Redick DUI jokes you could possibly want: * Redick’s arrest could actually help his draft status, as the Portland Trail Blazers are currently sitting at #4. * To keep up with his pal, Adam Morrison plans on knocking off a Seattle-area liquor store this evening. Special… Continue reading Special Bonus Duke Bashing
Category: Silliness
Great Moments in Student Course Evaluations
One of my least favorite end-of-term rituals for faculty is the dreaded student course evaluations. These have two components: the numerical bubble-sheet evaluations, which provide the pseudo-quantitatvie evaluation used to compare courses, and written responses to a half-dozen very general questions. The latter are at least potentially more useful, particularly when the standard questions are… Continue reading Great Moments in Student Course Evaluations
New Frontiers in Alternative Dispute Resolution
Kate mentioned this story to me yesterday, and today, it’s made the New York Times: Fed up with the inability of two lawyers to agree on a trivial issue in an insurance lawsuit, a federal judge in Florida this week ordered them to “convene at a neutral site” and “engage in one (1) game of… Continue reading New Frontiers in Alternative Dispute Resolution
Typo of the Month
Locus is the semi-official magazine of SF– its reviews are quoted almost as prominently as those of better-known mass media outlets in cover blurbs and the like– but it remains a small operation, a “semi-prozine” in Hugo ballot terms. That means most issues aren’t edited quite as carefully as they might be, and there are… Continue reading Typo of the Month
Sporting Event Live-Blogging
A List of Things Thrown Five Mintues Ago is live-blogging the National Spelling Bee. The Internet is large, and contains multitudes. (Via a comment at Making Light.)
Burning Question
Gandalf or Magneto?
You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program
Via Jim Henley, a handy guide to the key denominations, terms, and concepts in Christianity: Catholics Catholics are the New York Yankees of Christianity. They are the biggest and wealthiest team, and their owner is intensely controversial (this makes St. Francis of Assisi the Derek Jeter of Catholicism: discuss). Catholics all wear matching uniforms, and… Continue reading You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program
This Is Not the Blog You’re Looking For
It’s a grey and rainy weekend morning, and I’m facing a day at work trying to put things in order before I leave for DAMOP on Tuesday, so I’m not in a big hurry to get moving. Of course, I’m not feeling all that inspired, blog-wise, either, so I’m going to fall back on one… Continue reading This Is Not the Blog You’re Looking For
Skip to the End
Via a LiveJournal post on the dorkiest thing ever, a link that isn’t new, but new to me: The Lord of the Rings in quotes from The Princess Bride: PETER JACKSON: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava. AUDIENCE: What? PETER JACKSON: Frodo and Sam don’t get burned up by the lava.… Continue reading Skip to the End
Critical Chemical Information
Have you ever wondered about the accuracy of the descriptions in chemical manuals of what different compounds smell like? “Sure,” you say, “the book says that this smells like cheese, but does that really help me in my daily life?” Well, worry no more. Dylan Stiles does the experiment so you don’t have to. (If… Continue reading Critical Chemical Information