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I heart Al Franken

By ~LS~ On June 30, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics, Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Politics

I’m entirely jealous of the people of Minnesota on a daily basis. I have friended/liked Al Franken’s Facebook page and so I get posts about his work on several times a day. Jealous, jealous, jealous. He does so much good, progressive work, and he’s damned hard-nosed about it.

I get regular emails from Vitter, too, because I signed up for his newsletter for some stupid reason. They are nothing but grandstanding. I hit reply and respond with that statement on a regular basis. Vitter’s last email announcement praised his efforts to pressure “the administration” (by which I assume he means Obama) to send in the Fish and Wildlife folks and to increase the number of people assigned to the Louisiana gulf coast. Of course, in the mean time, Jindal is dicking around on calling in the National Guard.

Anyway, back to Franken. I have always liked Franken. I remember rolling [...]

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Email signatures

By ~LS~ On June 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Humor, The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Silliness, Weird Stuff

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of email with a certain type of signature file that cracks me up. Usually the emails are from people in corporate offices, but some people at school have them too. They are wordy, legalistic disclaimers about privacy and liability. They are often difficult to understand and they sound full of it. I know the people who have these signatures attached to their emails usually have no control over their presence. In some cases, though, that’s not the truth.

So I’m taking revenge. I have written my own signature file and here it is:

Caution: electronic email sent through the internet is not secure and could be intercepted by CARNIVORE, Echelon, NarusInsight, Amazon.com, Google.com, or other government or commercial surveillance entities. For your protection, do not send any information whatsoever over the internet. Any information that you do send will be considered the intellectual property [...]

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MLIS @ LSU

By ~LS~ On June 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Louisiana, Politics

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Teaching evaluations

By ~LS~ On June 22, 2010 · Add Comment · In Academentia, I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Consumption, Pedagogy, Teaching

I got my teaching evaluations back yesterday.

I have been thinking lately about faculty reviews and teaching evaluations because they are such an issue at school lately. Our student ratings are incorporated in our annual reviews, so the numbers count in our overall annual evaluation by the school administration. Now, on the one hand, this doesn’t actually mean much since there’s no material reward for a good review these days and no one’s job is threatened by an average review.

My questions have been running the course of how pointless and aggravating teaching evaluations often are yet how my happiness is still tied to them. Frankly, I’m not sure what teaching evaluations mean. In the ideal sense, they measure whether or not your teaching is effective. Even though I have a strong philosophy about what I consider good teaching, I still question who knows what way is best? Commitment to [...]

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By ~LS~ On June 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Voxygen

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My signature

By ~LS~ On June 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Silliness

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