Making Slow Progress on MT Resurrection

Making Slow Progress on MT ResurrectionLiteracy Weblog) Dave my ISP has made a copy of the whole blogs.setonhill.edu website the way it was this morning, and backed up the last working version of the site (from about five days ago, when comments stopped working). Already I’ve gotten five e-mails from bloggers reporting that they can’t…

INTJ: Mastermind

INTJ – “Mastermind”. Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test INTJ: Mastermind I think the Myers-Briggs Personality Test is copyrighted material, so I wonder about the legality of this online version. Found via Kate Cielinski…

Thanksgiving and Spring 2004 Preview

Tomorrow (Thursday) will be Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. — a time for turkey feasts and family gatherings. I’ll probably blog a bit when I get the chance, but I’m also preparing syllabi for next semester. I’ll be teaching the second half of “Seminar in Thinking in Writing,” a course in “Media Aesthetics” (the…

Miss Pennsylvania Pageant

—Miss Pennsylvania Pageant (Sugarpacket) My student Karissa Kilgore is participating in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant this weekend. She had hoped to use her weblog as a way to keep her family informed, but alas since MT won’t let us post comments, she’s missing an opportunity to let her friends and family cheer her on. If anybody…

done!

—done! (dr jill/txt) Congratulations to Jill Walker, whose Ph.D. defence was closely watched in certain parts of the blogosphere. Similar:Google Stops Scanning Student Gmail Accounts for Ads Google said Wednesday that it stoppe…AcademiaPeter vs. the PenguinsFor the past hour, Peter (who is not yet…AmusingHemingway: The First Draft of Anything… Facebook.AmusingIt’s so heartbreaking seeing the amount of…

Like Circus Ponies?

Untenured radical flirts attend MLA meetings in skirts, feathers, tassels and suits, with leatherette boots Rendered wholly from Savile Row shirts —Kieran Healy (see first comment) —Like Circus Ponies? (Invisible Adjuct) Similar:Dear readers: Please stop calling us ‘the media.’ There is no such thing.When my students refer in passing to “th…CultureCarolyn as Dolly Levi (Arts4Homeschoolers /…

Stroke Gives Woman British Accent

Doctors say Mrs Roberts, who was born and bred in Indiana, has a condition called foreign accent syndrome. | This rare condition occurs when part of the brain becomes damaged. This can follow a stroke or head injury. There have only been a few documented cases. —Stroke Gives Woman British Accent (BBC) This article conflates the…

Buy 3 & $ave

He was giving away Zippos for answering a survey…. So, even though I don’t smoke, I took the survey. He asked what I smoked, and I answered “Marlboro Lights.” Divine inspiration. Then he asked the tough question. “Hard or soft?” Well, I had no idea cigarettes could hard or soft. I was pretty sure they…

Moveable Type Frustration

Moveable Type FrustrationLiteracy Weblog) I’ve been using MT since the middle of September and haven’t had a single problem with it — until now. Since some time over the weekend, none of the 40 or so authors on blogs.setonhill.edu have been able to post comments. They can still post blog entries, but we can’t comment…

Vocaloid "Singing Synthesis Software"

VOCALOID allows song writers to generate superb authentic-sounding singing on their PCs by simply inputting the words and notes of their compositions. The software synthesizes the sound from “vocal libraries” of recordings of actual singers, such as those being developed by Zero-G, and retains the vocal qualities of the original singing voices to reproduce real-sounding…

Leave No Teacher Behind

Everyone knows that some very good people leave teaching because it pays so poorly. Some experts estimate that there is one well-qualified teacher not teaching for every one now in the classroom. Under my Leave No Teacher Behind Act, some of these people would surely return and others stay. That would increase the pool of…

The Assassination Industry

Even now, surveys show that fewer than 50 per cent of Americans believe there was just one gunman. | One of the effects of this is that an entire industry has grown up surrounding the death of JFK, who was shot twice as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza… —The Assassination Industry (NZ Herald) Hmm… I…