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Archive for May 10th, 2011

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

OMG I am totally agree

By Thoreau
This article says that the bad lab reports that I just finished grading are all the fault of high school English teachers.  I’ll agree with any article that doesn’t lay the blame at my feet.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Sad news

By Thoreau
Jennifer has posted a tribute, better than I could write, to a man whom we both knew as “J sub D” on the intertubes.  Those who knew him on the intertubes knew a lot about him, and we knew that he was battling lung cancer.  He had told some of his intertubes friends that [...]

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Time (dun! dun!) is marching on! And time (dun! dun!) is still marching on!

By Thoreau
I was on the fence about whether to allow Lost in the do-over.  On the one hand, it seems appropriate that a show about a time-traveling island should factor into a do-over of 2001-2011.  On the other hand, what if the do-over begins with the planes landing safely, and then everything gets weird, and [...]