Well, I haven’t been able to escape from work entirely. I’ve been taking things relatively easy since I finished teaching a week ago, but other school-related things keep cropping up and trying to encroach upon my free time.
The main issue looming in my mind is designing the course I’m getting to teach in the winter [...]
Archive for July, 2009
On course design
Posted in course development, tagged teaching on 30 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
School’s out
Posted in acamademia, book learnin', tagged teaching on 22 July 2009 | 3 Comments »
Finally, I’m done teaching, I’m now done grading, and for the next two months I have no school obligations, no research of my own to work on, no classes to prep. At last I can enjoy a lengthy break full of fun and relaxation.
My inner nerd tells me I should bust out Guitar Hero III [...]
Exploiting college athletes
Posted in acamademia, video games, tagged college sports, Marx on 4 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several college football players are suing the NCAA over the use of their likenesses in licensed video games without compensation, in another sign of how decadent and depraved college athletics has become.
Don’t get me wrong: I fully support the claims of the students, who are portrayed in games like EA Sports’ NCAA Football without the [...]
On Czech-Slovak rivalry
Posted in don't want to be an American idiot, possible homes in exile, ridiculing the NYT for sport, send in the Slavs, tagged Czechoslovakia?, sloppy journalism on 3 July 2009 | 2 Comments »
The good: the NYT has an article about Slovakia and the ongoing rivalry between Slovaks and Czechs (always nice to see some mainstream U.S. press on a topic vaguely pertaining to my research).
The bad: the article is probably oversimplifying things or overlooking key points (like the fact that the breakup of Czechoslovakia was relatively amicable [...]
