It’s been a while since I posted, mostly because I haven’t had the energy to do much of anything since my summer course began a week ago. Is it possible to be burned out after just a week?
I’m not sure why I find this course so much more taxing. I had two-hour lectures in the [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Teaching my ass off
Posted in acamademia, course development, tagged teaching on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Course prepped
Posted in acamademia, course development, tagged course development, teaching on 21 June 2009 | 1 Comment »
For probably about the past month, I’ve been doing my damnedest to write lectures and get as much finished as I can of the course preparation for my summer class. The bulk of the task has been writing the twenty lectures I’m giving over four and a half weeks, along with crafting outlines for each [...]
I’ll take the penis mightier for $200, Alex
Posted in diversion, hockey, the Internet is a series of tubes, tagged Celebrity Jeopardy, pen is mightier, penis mightier, Sidney Crosby, SNL, Stanley Cup, Will Ferrell on 16 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some headline writer for TSN.ca likes old SNL episodes, as evidenced by this screen shot from Friday night’s post-Stanley Cup Finals coverage.
At least, I hope the headline is an homage to “Celebrity Jeopardy!” with Will Ferrell, rather than some sort of snarky comment about Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom nearly losing a testicle.
On the other hand, [...]
Stanley goes to Slovakia
Posted in hockey, send in the Slavs, tagged hockey, Stanley Cup on 12 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For functionally the first time, a Slovak won the Stanley Cup (counting only ethnic Slovaks who still live in Slovakia and who played in the Cup-clinching game) when the pride of Topoľčany, Miroslav Šatan, contributed some fourth-line minutes — and even an uncharacteristic shot block or two — to help the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the [...]
Suburban St. Louis couple appalled to learn the Czech Republic has the internet, too
Posted in diversion, send in the Slavs, the Internet is a series of tubes, tagged Internet, interwebs on 12 June 2009 | 4 Comments »
Evidently some family from Missouri posted a high-res family photo on a social networking site, then discovered several months later that a store in the Czech Republic had decided to use the photo of the happy, smiling family in a storefront advertisement.
From NPR:
When Danielle Smith posed with her husband and their two children for a [...]
The most interesting man in the universe
Posted in Great Moments in YouTube, diversion, don't want to be an American idiot, hockey, tagged CBC, Don Cherry, Dos Equis, ESPN, Stanley Cup on 10 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t had the good fortune or sense to watch the Stanley Cup Finals on the CBC (and you are watching the Finals, of course), you’ve missed some truly inspired openings.
Game 1 gave us this practically artsy montage-in-reverse to set the stage for the rematch of last year’s SCF.
But without [...]
