Wow hil, do the students want them on paper vs electronically?

Yeah, I figured you would have actual need of a working copier.

Remember Father Guido Sarducci’s 5 minute university? “Supply and demand” etc. I have a few bits and pieces from business school that stuck in my head like that. One of them is “you can cut out the middleman but you can’t cut out what the middleman does“ and a lot of people making decisions about where to make organizational cuts do not understand that principle (to the extent that any thought is put into those decisions, which certainly varies greatly)

I have the rest of the day off! And Monday morning! I originally planned to take all the Fridays in February off as a little birthday present to myself, but something came up that needed to be done on Fridays so I changed it to Friday afternoons and Monday mornings, and the last two Fridays I’ve ended up working later than planned. This morning my boss messaged me to take off early to make up for it and I actually am doing it. I think I will go back to bed because that is an extremely attractive option at the moment

Wow hil, do the students want them on paper vs electronically?

Absolutely. They hate it on days when there are copier issues and I can only post that stuff online.

I’m not sure if I feel like collaborating or focusing. Can anyone recommend somewhere that could accommodate both?

I laughed heartily.

I can’t remember the last time I copied anything. I do have a printer and can clear jams but printing is a last resort always. I snarl at people who try and give me paper when I request electronic. The grocery store prints out a receipt that says they emailed me. I don’t need that paper either!!

I might be buying a car tomorrow. We shall see.

None of my students have printers, which is annoying when they miss class -- for any paper I hand out in class, I also post the PDF online, but if they miss class, they expect to be able to ask me for the hard copy at the next class, and I don't always have those with me, since I teach all over campus and don't like to drag a ton of paper with me, so I usually just bring what I need for that day. There are a few who like to use a tablet and stylus and write digitally directly on the PDF, but that's usually just one or two students out of a classroom of 45 or so.

I do find it interesting the number of folks who don't have a printer at all.

Interesting. It is nice to scratch notes on things sometimes. I’m just rarely in a room with the people I’m working with.

Argh. Amazon delivered my package to the wrong house again. NBD in general because I didn’t need the things asap. But a pain because I’m leaving town tomorrow so if a Good Samaritan delivers it, I won’t know, they won’t let me say it’s lost until Monday, and if they redeliver it’ll sit on my porch for several days. Booooo.

I do find it interesting the number of folks who don't have a printer at all.

Especially students. There are printing stations around campus, where they can print stuff from a USB drive or a laptop, but those charge per page. For anything math-based, especially, there just isn't any good system for typing math as you're working a problem out, and digital notebooks are fine for some things but they're a pain when you're flipping back and forth between pages a lot (like going back to see how you did a problem in class so that you can follow that example on your homework.)

Apparently bathroom signs on campus are being changed to say "Biological Men" and "Biological Women," based on a new Ohio law. I haven't seen any of the new ones in person yet, but I saw people posting about it. This is utter garbage.