As I was spiffing up the blog, I noticed that my new posts were not beaming out to the CUNY Academic Commons activity feed as expected. Confused, I asked for help over the wire, and now that it’s come (via resident hackerguru Boone B. Gorges), I figured I’d share it here. Turns out that the …
I have just announced the existence of this blog on twitter. If you’re coming in from there, and have a suggestion – or just want to say hi – why not leave a comment?
The following paragraph, from right around the middle of today’s First Person column over at the Chronicle of Higher Ed, strikes me as almost Palin-like in its illogic. (Though it is, admittedly, thankfully, handled far better syntactically than the erstwhile governor can generally manage.) Typically, research earns promotion and tenure. Teaching is secondary, and often …
Since reading this unsurprising-but-still-upsetting article at chronicle.com, I’ve been thinking about the whole business of C as an “average” grade. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Even granted that the average – construed as the arithmetic mean – isn’t *technically* the middle grade of a set (that’s the median), it’s still …
Stumbled upon this while I was trying to find a very basic windows tutorial video for my grandfather:
It describes a system called Gobi, which apparently allows you to express the relative strength of relationships between items in a tag list, and then sort through them by “focusing” on one or more tags. This updates the […]
