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The Fiona or perhaps La Fiona
Professor of Thread Killing, Fiork University
The Right Reverend Fiona, PhD, Bishop of the Fora
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larryc
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 01:54:49 AM » |
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Pffft. These professors are all talk and no action.
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 02:10:07 AM » |
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I like this juxtoposition: In his tirade, Mr. Collins threatened to kill the colleague. He also “kicked a large trash can,” the court said. Dammit, those trashcans have feelings too! |
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daniel_von_flanagan
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 04:10:15 AM » |
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Most unhappiness in academics can be attributed to bad parking policy. - DvF
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The U.S. Education Department is establishing a new national research center to study colleges' ability to successfully educate the country's growing numbers of academically underprepared administrators.
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2011, 09:11:53 AM » |
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Most unhappiness in academics can be attributed to bad parking policy. - DvF
At a workshop on what to do with a STEM graduate degree, the guy representing academia made one point repeatedly during his talk. That point was not the difficulty of getting tenure or the drawbacks of trying to balance research, teaching, and service with family and other commitments. That point was "Whatever you have to do, do NOT get roped into serving on the campus parking committee". Apparently, one can recover from a tenure denial and get another job, but the psychological marks and the enemies made by serving on the parking committee are forever. |
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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chaosbydesign
"I like to lyse bacteria. Did you know I'm utterly insane?"
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« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2011, 09:13:17 AM » |
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I guess I should keep my trashcan-kicking past to myself.
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face. Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2011, 09:16:43 AM » |
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Parking???!!???!!?? Slowly I turned . . . step by step . . . inch by inch . . .
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mouseman
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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2011, 05:06:54 PM » |
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What I would love to hear is the professor's response to the question "wouldn't it have been better to pay the friggin' parking ticket?". He would probably sound like a cross between Rahm Emanuel and Patti Blagojevitch on a bad day in Illinois.
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
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For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
Lewis Carroll
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« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2011, 06:36:46 PM » |
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The problem usually isn't a lack of parking, it's a lack of convenient parking.
Throwing a fit over inconvenient parking? Even if someone did rat you out and you got a ticket? Get a life.
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2011, 07:17:14 PM » |
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What kind of trashcans does his campus have? Assuming he kicked an outdoor trashcan immediately after discovering the ticket, how did he not break his toe?
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Wet Blanket will find success. The spreadsheet is the way...
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2011, 07:55:05 PM » |
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Assuming he kicked an outdoor trashcan immediately after discovering the ticket, how did he not break his toe?
Pffft. These professors are all talk and no action.
He probably faked the kick. Either that or he has too big shoes to fill. Chair shoes that were later taken away. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2011, 09:42:30 PM » |
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I admit, I am not a democrat when it comes to parking. Freshmen should not have cars, and faculty should have spaces in a close lot from which they can carry their armloads of books, files, and student papers, and where they do not compete with students. That is my unapologetic view. But I have never kicked anything over it, just fumed silently while circling.
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oldfullprof
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« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2011, 10:41:41 PM » |
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Hee. I'm very good at forcing students to leave faculty lots. I woulda just rammed the snitch's car.
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Someone please tell me to start entering data, rather than screwing off here.
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mouseman
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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2011, 10:49:23 PM » |
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I admit, I am not a democrat when it comes to parking. Freshmen should not have cars, and faculty should have spaces in a close lot from which they can carry their armloads of books, files, and student papers, and where they do not compete with students. That is my unapologetic view. But I have never kicked anything over it, just fumed silently while circling.
UNH has parking for faculty/staff only - about 27% of the available parking, which includes most of spaces that are adjacent to the university buildings, so I don't think that was the problem. It was a sense of entitlement, pure and simple. He was parked illegally, and when he was ticketed, his first response was that it was somebody else's fault and that he shouldn't have to pay. |
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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
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For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
Lewis Carroll
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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2011, 11:10:39 PM » |
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I admit, I am not a democrat when it comes to parking. Freshmen should not have cars, and faculty should have spaces in a close lot from which they can carry their armloads of books, files, and student papers, and where they do not compete with students. That is my unapologetic view. But I have never kicked anything over it, just fumed silently while circling.
UNH has parking for faculty/staff only - about 27% of the available parking, which includes most of spaces that are adjacent to the university buildings, so I don't think that was the problem. It was a sense of entitlement, pure and simple. He was parked illegally, and when he was ticketed, his first response was that it was somebody else's fault and that he shouldn't have to pay. What are you suggesting, mouseman, that I should do research before I freely opine? It's the holidays. But as to his sense of entitlement, it will probably take him far in academia (if he can keep his car out of the pound). |
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