Posts from — April 2004

it isn't a bad writeup….. scary parts :45% of faculty are adjuncts….

and education doesn't seem to help. and the presidential administration is right there with them

a family of 4 on 18000 a year…..? i don't think so.

i've been slowly removing this from my diet, just because i was eating to much sugar, and prefered not to. this is the type of population indicator study that shows issues how i'm interested in them. now, it is true that there are intervening variables but there is also a covariance on the population level, so there is likely some series of factors that relates these variables, ie corn syrup and diabetes.

People feel loyalty to computers. Computer users tend to form strong ties with a particular machine, researchers have found. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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nothing new here, humans attach to just about anything.

DOAJ tops 1,000. The journal tally at the Directory of Open Access Journals just lept from the 800's to over 1000. As I write, it's 1,068. [Open Access News]

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at what point does it become a 'critical mass'?

State Schools. I find this horrific. “More members of this year's freshman class at the University of Michigan have parents making at least $200,000 a year than have parents making less than the national median of about $53,000, according to…” Here… [Ascription is an anathema to any enthusiasm]

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yes it is horrific, but then again kids whose parents make 53k do or at least can go to school, they generally don't go to the same school necessarilly….

this is a nice story about how letting the other side define the terms will likely lose the battle.

for instance, whose life to you prioritze the mother or baby? or the mother or fetus? or the mother or threat to her life? likewise is it a procedure to preserve the life of the mother, or is it a procedure which harms someone? for me, as many know the only person there is the mother, who has complete choice, everything else should be moot, but not everyone sees it that way, mostly because the terminological debate is being pursued in textbooks and other seemingly unbiased information sources like the daily news programs.

A Marine Mom Lays it Down. Sgt Hook posts a Marine Mother's open letter. Make sure you've got tissue handy.Excerpt:”We are a different breed, like our Marines. I talk with other Marine Moms every day, and they feel the same way. We speak in Marine Corps lingo, use military time, have links on our computer that give the location of our Marines' nearest PX (Post Exchange), or the current temp in Baghdad. Our homes are shrines to our sons and daughters who serve. We always have boot wax, liquid starch, lint brushes out the wazzoo, an extra war bag, even anodized brass buttons and spare chevrons on hand.”And that's not the best part. Go read it. [Digital
Warfighter]

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it is worth reading.

the audio world in everyday experience is different if you aren't plugged into your ipod and shure e2s…. and i must say…. it isn't as impressive as it might be unless there is no other sound except the birds and rest of nature. there is…. if you have silence, a pervasive and somewhat deafening roar of humanity in every civilized place…. i'm not sure that it is a good thing.

in short, i left the ipod uncharged lastnight and only just now realized the generalized noise of others. i've had the e2s for a while now. the walk to work was great until the trucks came along, from then on it was just an extended diatribe against noise polution.