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Death of an adjunct

12 years ago

Attention must be paid. Meanwhile, in the past year, her teaching load had been reduced by the university to one…

@CordeliaLogan If he were real, and had been my co…

12 years ago

@CordeliaLogan If he were real, and had been my colleague, I wouldn't want to discuss his personal life in a…

“2011 called. They want their meme back,” I teased…

12 years ago

"2011 called. They want their meme back," I teased a student w/ a Nyan Cat T-shirt. (I was NOT actually…

I was briefly excited that Turnitin.com’s new app works in a park with no WiFi

12 years ago

Then I realized... I'm a guy who gets excited about grading papers in a park.

14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985

12 years ago

I used something very similar to this shoulder-bag mobile phone when I interned at a radio news station my junior…

Can the multiverse explain human history?

12 years ago

Where did this idea of parallel universes come from? Science fiction is an obvious source: in the 1960s, Captain Kirk…

Word to describe the sorry state of the MLA Job In…

12 years ago

Word to describe the sorry state of the MLA Job Information List: “@QSlobodian: @pannapacker Jöbberdämmerung.”

My son just scoffed at Kirk’s infamous “One to the…

12 years ago

My son just scoffed at Kirk's infamous "One to the fourth power" gaffe from #startrek #tos "Court Martial."

The “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me teach Shakespeare

12 years ago

Today the awkward but delightful "Monsters, Inc" company play helped me explain why Shakespeare put the awful "Pyramus and Thisby"…

Insipidest. Play. Ever. –Pepys, on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Sort of.

12 years ago

After attending a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream, Pepys wrote in his diary: "Insipidest. Play. Ever." (Or words to that…