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« Reply #795 on: January 26, 2010, 11:48:15 AM » |
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(Are trolls back "in" now? Thanks to Travelocity I might be able to see gnomes, but trolls? Like the plastic trolls having permanent bad hair days that I remember from my childhood?)
Were the trolls ever out? I don't keep up with those things. However, if you want to talk about weird and a little scary room decorations, I spent one semester in the dorm as a college student. I decorated my part of the room by reading the morning paper and then stapling any really interesting stories to the wall. By the end of the semester, I had covered two walls and my wardrobe. Of course, that was back in my lonely, psychopath days <interthreaduality> when I was merely casually dating my fellow students instead of making that firm commitment of marriage (that was six months after I moved out of that dorm room). Now I don't decorate at all. The only decoration in my office is the periodic table on the wall and the demonstrations on the bookcases. Maybe I need some trolls, plastic pineapples, and a camera to snap a picture of people's faces when they visit my office for the first time. I'm a little worried that I'm not outwardly eccentric enough to fit in here. Hmm. I had one wall covered with those postcards prostitutes leave in phoneboxes in central London, and one wall nearly covered with a section of a billboard poster from a train station (it had all but peeled off) advertising Tivo. Maybe I should do something similar in the lab. |
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« Reply #796 on: January 26, 2010, 11:49:30 AM » |
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I've got one! Ultimately she killed herself as a product of society. So many possibilities, so few that make any sense. |
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« Reply #797 on: January 26, 2010, 12:21:05 PM » |
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This could cause death by affixation, which is having your body not get too much oxygen."
My sympathies, Anakin. Since I've heard a rumor that misery shared is misery halved, did you know that: "...the protist Euglena envolved [sic] before the evidence of prokaryotes or gave rise to the evolution of some prokaryotes." . Is that how it worked. So this protist gained a nucleus AND chloroplasts AND mitochondria (probably through endosymbiosis, the mutualism of two prokaryotes) but then gave it all up and became a prokaryote again. Probably for that cute amoeba in the next pond over. |
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« Reply #798 on: January 26, 2010, 12:31:59 PM » |
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I've got one! Ultimately she killed herself as a product of society. So many possibilities, so few that make any sense. It's Beckett crossed with Damien Hirst, by way of Warhol. Give this student an A. |
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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« Reply #799 on: January 26, 2010, 12:46:30 PM » |
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I've got one! Ultimately she killed herself as a product of society. So many possibilities, so few that make any sense. It's Beckett crossed with Damien Hirst, by way of Warhol. Give this student an A. I've heard of two of those people. Can I have a 67%? |
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Dr. Anakin sits high and mightily in her office while she condemns students to lives of misery and drudgery, washing out their husbands' underwear in filthy water. In addition, she is a horrible teacher. She welcomes you to Introduction to Biology!
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« Reply #800 on: January 26, 2010, 12:48:04 PM » |
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I've got one! Ultimately she killed herself as a product of society. So many possibilities, so few that make any sense. It's Beckett crossed with Damien Hirst, by way of Warhol. Give this student an A. I've heard of two of those people. Can I have a 67%? Only if you kill yourself as a product of society first, young Jedi. |
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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« Reply #801 on: January 26, 2010, 12:48:18 PM » |
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"Losing my arm in a drunken hang-gliding accident in 1940 ruined my pitching."
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« Reply #802 on: January 26, 2010, 12:50:41 PM » |
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This could cause death by affixation, which is having your body not get too much oxygen."
Wouldn't whether you got too much oxygen depend on who (or what) you were fixated on? I've got one! Ultimately she killed herself as a product of society. So many possibilities, so few that make any sense. Perhaps she was affixated by society? |
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« Reply #803 on: January 26, 2010, 12:55:59 PM » |
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"Losing my arm in a drunken hang-gliding accident in 1940 ruined my pitching."
Gee, I'll bet it did. That'd suck. (Um, you have a one-armed non-traditional student in your class?) |
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« Reply #804 on: January 26, 2010, 01:08:55 PM » |
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"Losing my arm in a drunken hang-gliding accident in 1940 ruined my pitching."
Gee, I'll bet it did. That'd suck. (Um, you have a one-armed non-traditional student in your class?) No, I have a student writing in the persona of a one-armed baseball manager in 1942. Lots of interesting and odd things happen on our campus during the January term. And I'm pretty sure Americans weren't really hang-gliding much in 1940 either, so the character might be German spy. |
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« Reply #805 on: January 26, 2010, 05:08:15 PM » |
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From today's stack of assignments:
"People with brown eyes like to take 8:00am labs".
I think it's time for the "correlation vs. causation" chat with them.
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« Reply #806 on: January 26, 2010, 05:21:32 PM » |
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"All Kurdish people like to kill a Turkish person every day."
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« Reply #807 on: January 26, 2010, 06:55:06 PM » |
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"Heroes should not show any emotion such as mourning the death of someone, or whaling when they die."
It should go without saying that I am not teaching Moby Dick this semester.
By the way...guys...shouldn't someone, with more seniority than me, maybe, start a new thread? It is no longer Fall 2009. I'm just saying.
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« Reply #808 on: January 26, 2010, 08:37:15 PM » |
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By the way...guys...shouldn't someone, with more seniority than me, maybe, start a new thread? It is no longer Fall 2009. I'm just saying.
Corny, you are ready for this challenge. Grasp the nettle and start the new thread. Consider it a fora rite of passage. |
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« Reply #809 on: January 26, 2010, 09:03:17 PM » |
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I hereby declare this thread...not dead, but closed. Move over to the new thread, everyone: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,66115.0.htmlP.S. Corny, now all I can think of is all those dead heroes, out there, somewhere, whaling. |
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