where the rates are reasonable and so is the honey badger
You want me to send you my notes from class? In addition to the PowerPoints I’ve been putting on Blackboard? No no no. I don’t take notes. I’m the instructor. Watch me sometime and you’ll see: I’m not taking notes up there. The people around you, the ones sitting in chairs, the awake ones, some of them are writing things down. Talk to them. It’s not cheating.
*dazed*
In Haiti, MSF and local workers set up inflatable hospitals just like back in the 144th Evac Hosp (UTARNG). Great photos!
(Photo by Benoit Finck)
…to see how stupid these people think I am, at least the ones who bother to email me about it: “ I can’t really tell when I look at the sheet if its due on Monday or Wednesday.” At the top of the sheet: “(due Mon. Feb. 1 in class)” I assume I’m the stupid one; my correspondent’s sig calls him an assistant CS lab manager and all manner of other resume-enhancing things. Another scholar wants to know if the graph in the first problem is supposed to be a bar graph or a line graph. It says “budget constraint,” like the ones in the book that are lines, and the ones I drew on the whiteboard in class, also lines. And the one that’s actually shown in the second problem, line again. Only four of about 140 people had questions about the homework, and only three of those had dumb questions. Still. It shakes me up that I suck so badly. It’s like trying to talk in outer space. I and the alien popping out of my chest are both screaming and how many of these people who’ve paid thousands to be here can hear us?
You can lead a horse to Blackboard (by, for instance, telling her in the syllabus that you handed out as well as by saying with words from your mouth that she needs to check Blackboard regularly) but if you somehow can’t make her LOOK, you’ll probably hear at evaluation time how UNFAIR you were.
Wow!! The colors …and the trees … and the floating …spinning …light …waterfall …flying …!! (Not a very useful review, oh well.)
It was so much like the world we used to imagine and play about, that I would wish with all my might to jump into. I would think: I’m going to open my eyes in five seconds and I’ll be there, if I take one step on the surface that’s it. The next breath I breathe will be the atmosphere of Kappa. That was my designation for our planet. The rest is secret; I wouldn’t want to screw up my travel options, just in case wishes become real.
(nabbed off this guy’s blog) These Pandoran life forms were inspired by Christmas tree worms, Spirobranchus giganteus:
(source)
Watching How the Earth Was Made instead, and trying to play this strange Tetris game. HtEWM is good, but I’d rather watch The Universe. They could keep showing the same episodes over and over; that would be fine. I guess the thing I really have against HtEWM is …it tries to sound doomy and urgent like Mega Disasters. No sense of humor. And they called the San Andreas Fault an “ugly scar.” The hell? That’s almost as bad as “shark-infested waters.” They freaking LIVE THERE. Come and whine about it when sharks start crawling up on the land.
The slideshow will be about opportunity cost, PPFs, diminishing marginal utility, and international trade. And Chapter 2 of Cod. In other words it’ll take about a hundred years. But I’ll break it up in July 2060 with this fun video I’ve used before of a HoHos eating contest. I’m too cheap to buy actual HoHos for four separate contests, and have no interest in HoHo vomit after a weekend of cat vomit. Poor little puma has to cut back. That’s what I do, I give people (and pumas) too much food, except for HoHos.
