I hope crazy!boss is getting fired!
I just saw a student's name: Crystan. Presumably pronounced "Kristin." Yoiks!
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Dec 11, 2007 7:48:32 am PST #6623 of 10001
information libertarian
Susan W. - Dec 11, 2007 7:49:44 am PST #6624 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Body image LOLcat: [link]
tommyrot - Dec 11, 2007 7:50:32 am PST #6625 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This book looks awesome, if depressing: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Psychologist Zimbardo masterminded the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which college students randomly assigned to be guards or inmates found themselves enacting sadistic abuse or abject submissiveness. In this penetrating investigation, he revisits—at great length and with much hand-wringing—the SPE study and applies it to historical examples of injustice and atrocity, especially the Abu Ghraib outrages by the U.S. military. His troubling finding is that almost anyone, given the right "situational" influences, can be made to abandon moral scruples and cooperate in violence and oppression. (He tacks on a feel-good chapter about "the banality of heroism," with tips on how to resist malign situational pressures.) The author, who was an expert defense witness at the court-martial of an Abu Ghraib guard, argues against focusing on the dispositions of perpetrators of abuse; he insists that we blame the situation and the "system" that constructed it, and mounts an extended indictment of the architects of the Abu Ghraib system, including President Bush.
eta: Discussed in this excellent Cocktail Party Physics post: [link]
Dana - Dec 11, 2007 7:54:57 am PST #6626 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ooof. Now full with potato.
And eyeing cookies.
bon bon - Dec 11, 2007 8:13:19 am PST #6627 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Glamcookie - Dec 11, 2007 8:14:17 am PST #6628 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
t skip skip skip
I'm using the Chicago Manual and can't find how to handle the following type of in-text citation:
Thompson (2005) also feels that book readers “skim and skip around, only rarely reading entire monographs from beginning to end” (as quoted in Borgman, 2007).
Is that right?
Will this paper ever be done????
sumi - Dec 11, 2007 8:29:42 am PST #6629 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Steph L. - Dec 11, 2007 8:35:59 am PST #6630 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The year in corrections and regrets the errors.
Heh. I love this one:
In an article in Monday’s newspaper, there may have been a misperception about why a Woodstock man is going to Afghanistan on a voluntary mission. Kevin DeClark is going to Afghanistan to gain life experience to become a police officer when he returns, not to shoot guns and blow things up.
The Sentinel-Review apologizes for any embarrassment this may have caused.
Aims - Dec 11, 2007 8:37:10 am PST #6631 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Giant baby Dane!
WANT WANT WANT
tommyrot - Dec 11, 2007 8:47:07 am PST #6632 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cutting-edge bookkeeping circa 1924: Bookkeeper on Moving Platform Saves Time in Reaching Files
Time and effort in referring to a large filing index in a busy office are saved by placing a billing machine and its operator on a platform which moves on rails. The carriage is anchored by a hand brake, conveniently placed, and when the operator wishes to move to another case, she releases the handle and pushes herself, machine and all, to the next position.