Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Dana - Jun 02, 2010 12:02:42 pm PDT #3408 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It's been two weeks since my husband had his job interview. They said they'd let him know in "a week or two". He's done pretty well at not stressing about it constantly. I am not doing so well. I've halfway convinced myself it's a bad sign that we haven't heard anything, and I'm starting to make myself nauseated with the obsessing.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2010 12:03:03 pm PDT #3409 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Pix, I looked through my University's official policies, and I don't find one specifically about teaching output, every rule is about actual inventions and such. I think it is so understood that a professor/teacher would both take their lectures with them AND most likely share, if asked, with the next instructor of that class.


tommyrot - Jun 02, 2010 12:05:01 pm PDT #3410 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Homer Simpson named greatest TV character

LOS ANGELES — Beer-swilling, doughnut-lover Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years.

The star character of long-running U.S. cartoon series "The Simpsons" beat schoolboy wizard Harry Potter and vampire slayer Buffy to take top place in the survey for U.S. entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly.


Daisy Jane - Jun 02, 2010 12:12:01 pm PDT #3411 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

How not to fly out of DFW (i.e. in your car) [link]


Maria - Jun 02, 2010 12:12:30 pm PDT #3412 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Sorella dear, this is the relevant portion of that article:

If your employment contract assigns copyright ownership of materials produced for the classroom to the teacher, then you probably have a green light. Absent any written agreement, however, the Copyright Act of 1976 stipulates that materials created by teachers in the scope of their employment are deemed “works for hire” and therefore the school owns them.

Forget about the selling of lesson plans; it's only the reason why this has suddenly come to the forefront. Until the Copyright Act of 1976 is amended, anything you create as part of your job duties belongs to the school. In the public school system, it will belong to the state. This does NOT cover anything you create for purposes outside of your job, e.g. as a tutor not affiliated with the school.

It sucks, and any school/district that pulls this kind of stunt is incredibly short-sighted, but they do have a legal leg to stand on.


Maria - Jun 02, 2010 12:14:56 pm PDT #3413 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

How not to fly out of DFW (i.e. in your car) [link]

Daaaaammmn. That is crazy.


meara - Jun 02, 2010 12:15:25 pm PDT #3414 of 30001

Pix, given how your school has been I can totally see them switching you to different classes, demanding your lesson plans for the past classes for a new teacher, and yhreatening to fire you if you don't give them up.


§ ita § - Jun 02, 2010 12:31:10 pm PDT #3415 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I would take out my own stitches... it ain't hard. And the damn things itch.

If my face was my tool, I'd be a little more cautious about it, both in waiting the recommended length of time before removing them, and perhaps having someone else do it. He had his face messed up around when I did, and there was no way I'd have taken the stitches out of my own face. Hells no.

Harry Potter is the second greatest TV character? How is that not wack?


Strix - Jun 02, 2010 12:31:41 pm PDT #3416 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Went to the dentist, got my teeth cleaned and my retainer thingie.

Now, I am just gronked. Ugh.

I may go and lay on the bed and read magazines for a bit.


tommyrot - Jun 02, 2010 12:33:45 pm PDT #3417 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Harry Potter is the second greatest TV character? How is that not wack?

Headline fail. At least the text of the article mentions TV and movies....