Can I get an Amen? Of course I do, but I use red ballpoint. My students' papers have more red on them than a Tarantino flick.
Not only that, but I hand back their essays in my office, which means I sit each student down and explain my corrections. (It's time consuming, but it really helps).
I tell my students that the one real-world skill I can give them is to learn how not to sound like a moron. I usually explain that if a poorly-written essay were a cover letter, I would stop reading after the first mistake.
I have some experience with stolen bikes in Belgium. If the cops find it, they will give it back. They invite you to their warehouse of found bikes, and give you all the time in the world to look for it. And people who report stolen bikes are invited to special auctions to buy bikes that have not been claimed after some time.
Suppose that outside our universe, there is no such thing as time. Calculations are put into the computer and the result returns instantly.
Instantly - as an instant - is still time. And relative to the input. Only if the results came before the input would this universe be different, and then again, "before", like "instantly", is still temporal.
Just a naive question: no matter how thin each deadly blade is, would not you essentially have something two inches thick made of steel or nickle? How could this much metal be lighter than paper?
From what I can find out, Normal paper weighs 75 lb / cubic foot; steel 490 lb/cf, and nickel 541 lb/cf.
I agree with your position against the noble savage, but if they were seeing where there journeys took them, then they did not have a B, a destination, in mind...
Thus the speed you attribute to decisiveness is lacking.
Look, it's part of the new rules in America. A university would be crucified if it ignored any threat. Someone smart enough to be a university student (stop laughing) ought to know not to post death threats on a public forum such as FB.
By the way:
Burroughs did in fact spend time behind bars, and would have spent much more time if his family didn't bribe the Mexican judicial system left, right and center.
Karouac was arrested as a material witness in a murder case.
Sartre was arrested in Paris 1968 (although he received a presidential pardon).
Nietzsche - never arrested, but he only privately printed a few copies of the fourth part of Zarathustra because he was afraid of the authorities.
I actually write (words, not code), partially for a living. I do all of my writing longhand at first. Then when I fire up the computer, I am already in my second of countless drafts, all edited on paper first by hand.
I actually remember having to use a typewriter in middle school. There's no way you could drag me back to those days. They jam, run out of ink, are unforgiving, etc. Plus the obvious - once a letter is typed, it's typed.
There's no point in idealizing the creative process, or in claiming typewriters - pure technology, if only mechanical - are superior. They're tools, and in good hands, good things result. In bad hands, bad things result.
That said, I'd buy one of Burroughs's typewriters.
Kagan is not a bureaucrat - she's a political appointee. Appointed by Obama, in fact. She conducts all litigation on behalf of the United States in the Supreme Court. So yes, Obama is damn well responsible for keeping track of her.
You say that at university, one learns more than programming. If this is true, then the difference cannot just be a piece of paper.
Don't you see that the (hopefully) liberal education one gets at university offers a different skill-set and broader world-view than one gets just simply learning to program?
I think back to Madoff's programmers. Code monkeys were all he needed. This is not to say that these programmers were vocationally trained. But a good liberal education would have enabled them - and anybody who pays attention - to ask the kind of questions that go past algorithms and enter into wider categories.
University is not for everyone - but for the right people, the intellectual and theoretical challenges of university opens minds, before it opens doors.
What's so wrong with using the opening sentences of books, with a bit of 1337 speak? Take the the first part of the opening sentence from James Joyce's "Ulysses":
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead
Change a few letters to numbers, or introduce a misspelling. Even add different punctuation if you want. That'll be pretty stong. Then you can even email yourself a password hint: Joyce, or Dublin, or Stephen, or anything really. You'll remember it, if you're not an idiot. Follow the same pattern with different books for different important sites, and unless the CIA or Mossad is after you, you'll do fine.
I'm not. I don't use PowerPoint. I only use chalk, the odd YouTube video, and once in a while images I put into small Web sites I design for particular lessons (when appropriate). I actually prefer using html to PowerPoint; on our classroom computers, Portable Firefox boots must faster than PP.
That said, I use the computer very sparingly; perhaps once ever three weeks or so.
I mean, really, who's going to pay for what's free on broadcast TV? And those few who live without TV (like me) have chosen to live without it, and would never pay for streams.\
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Hey AC, you know that Google Docs added offline access, right, about two years ago?
Mine was "Good fences make good neighbours. Discuss." (note the "u" for Canadian-ness, eh).
Can I get an Amen? Of course I do, but I use red ballpoint. My students' papers have more red on them than a Tarantino flick.
Not only that, but I hand back their essays in my office, which means I sit each student down and explain my corrections. (It's time consuming, but it really helps).
I tell my students that the one real-world skill I can give them is to learn how not to sound like a moron. I usually explain that if a poorly-written essay were a cover letter, I would stop reading after the first mistake.
The article fails basic orthography. It's the University of Waterloo, not Waterloo University ...
The test mentioned in the article places students in one of a graduated series of writing courses (at least it did in 1987, when I went there).
And now, a professor in Pennsylvania, I get papers riddled with "cuz", "u", and God knows what else.
I have some experience with stolen bikes in Belgium. If the cops find it, they will give it back. They invite you to their warehouse of found bikes, and give you all the time in the world to look for it. And people who report stolen bikes are invited to special auctions to buy bikes that have not been claimed after some time.
Instantly - as an instant - is still time. And relative to the input. Only if the results came before the input would this universe be different, and then again, "before", like "instantly", is still temporal.
I've for one have never forgiven them for Hitler.
Just a naive question: no matter how thin each deadly blade is, would not you essentially have something two inches thick made of steel or nickle? How could this much metal be lighter than paper?
From what I can find out, Normal paper weighs 75 lb / cubic foot; steel 490 lb/cf, and nickel 541 lb/cf.
What am I missing here?
I agree with your position against the noble savage, but if they were seeing where there journeys took them, then they did not have a B, a destination, in mind ...
Thus the speed you attribute to decisiveness is lacking.
Are you implying that they knew what B was, and where it was? If they didn't, they were essentially wandering.
All our science and technology is based on the idea that we can understand, control, and improve nature.
Playing God, in the Xn tradition, is creatio ex nihilo. Tweaking nature - even with catastrophic results - is not playing God.
I agree. And since they couldn't take it all at once, but needed almost a three-hour span, the shadows are all over the place.
Nietzsche went apeshit enough without needing America.
Look, it's part of the new rules in America. A university would be crucified if it ignored any threat. Someone smart enough to be a university student (stop laughing) ought to know not to post death threats on a public forum such as FB.
By the way:
I can't remember the last time I typed "com".
Seriously - with ctrl+enter, who needs to?
I actually write (words, not code), partially for a living. I do all of my writing longhand at first. Then when I fire up the computer, I am already in my second of countless drafts, all edited on paper first by hand.
I actually remember having to use a typewriter in middle school. There's no way you could drag me back to those days. They jam, run out of ink, are unforgiving, etc. Plus the obvious - once a letter is typed, it's typed.
There's no point in idealizing the creative process, or in claiming typewriters - pure technology, if only mechanical - are superior. They're tools, and in good hands, good things result. In bad hands, bad things result.
That said, I'd buy one of Burroughs's typewriters.
Kagan is not a bureaucrat - she's a political appointee. Appointed by Obama, in fact. She conducts all litigation on behalf of the United States in the Supreme Court. So yes, Obama is damn well responsible for keeping track of her.
Yeah - perhaps they could could better worry about the analogue pirates off the Horn of Africa.
You say that at university, one learns more than programming. If this is true, then the difference cannot just be a piece of paper.
Don't you see that the (hopefully) liberal education one gets at university offers a different skill-set and broader world-view than one gets just simply learning to program?
I think back to Madoff's programmers. Code monkeys were all he needed. This is not to say that these programmers were vocationally trained. But a good liberal education would have enabled them - and anybody who pays attention - to ask the kind of questions that go past algorithms and enter into wider categories.
University is not for everyone - but for the right people, the intellectual and theoretical challenges of university opens minds, before it opens doors.
I actually never used that one. But with changes, it is pretty strong. Even without, it must be strong.
What's so wrong with using the opening sentences of books, with a bit of 1337 speak? Take the the first part of the opening sentence from James Joyce's "Ulysses":
Change a few letters to numbers, or introduce a misspelling. Even add different punctuation if you want. That'll be pretty stong. Then you can even email yourself a password hint: Joyce, or Dublin, or Stephen, or anything really. You'll remember it, if you're not an idiot. Follow the same pattern with different books for different important sites, and unless the CIA or Mossad is after you, you'll do fine.
/not my password ... or is it?
I'm not. I don't use PowerPoint. I only use chalk, the odd YouTube video, and once in a while images I put into small Web sites I design for particular lessons (when appropriate). I actually prefer using html to PowerPoint; on our classroom computers, Portable Firefox boots must faster than PP.
That said, I use the computer very sparingly; perhaps once ever three weeks or so.
Maybe that's the plan?
I mean, really, who's going to pay for what's free on broadcast TV? And those few who live without TV (like me) have chosen to live without it, and would never pay for streams.\
BRAVO.
"The feeling of power has so far mounted highest in abstinent priests and hermits." F. Nietzsche, Notes (1880-81; x, 414 f.).