Please contact me if you know how to hack into Facebook, because I want you to hack into my account. I am blocked from it because my IP is now in Brazil. Since I did not list my true date of birth in Facebook and cannot remember what date of birth I alleged to have … More I Need A Hacker
Can anyone explain to me the Bahian elites’ fascination with broken appliances? Another friend has noticed the same thing. Right now I have a broken refrigerator, a broken toilet, a broken television, broken VCR and DVD players, a broken lamp, and broken lighting in three rooms. All of this is considered normal. These items might … More Calling All Brazilianists, and Anthropologists
People say professors lecture from ancient, yellowing notes, but mine lectured from drafts of their newest book manuscripts and invited their famous friends from other institutions to do the same. This is why, when I became a professor, the institutions I worked for seemed to me to be behind the times in terms of research … More On College Teaching, and on Paulo Freire
We also have in Louisiana several privatized prisons. At one of them, in the parish where my ancestor had some of his cotton land, there was a strike recently and I would like to know what happened. The Changeseeker offers some context. Axé.
There is an abusive situation to which I never pay attention for reasons of rank: how could this person touch me? Yet they can. I have not realized until now what the complete dynamic was. I have been trying to negotiate and placate. Thus I play into this person’s hands. Never placate. Learn to notice … More Never Placate
I have so many things to do that it is hard to know where to start. It is hard to know where to start because realistically, there is not enough time to accomplish it all — if there were, I could start anywhere. I would prefer to just start anywhere but I must first discern … More Straitjackets of Normalcy
Someone said the typical person does not think at all about the common good, the point of view of anyone else, or doing what is right. They only do what they want, and they are so oblivious to the existence of any other way of operating that they do not realize that this is what … More The Average Mentality?
People do not like to grade papers but I always find it interesting except when I did not create the assignment, do not agree with it, did not create the course goals, do not agree with these, do not find them feasible, do not know what they are, or am unsure whether there is any … More Reading for Work: Grades
So many people speak of the wonders of Interlibrary Loan and I do understand them, but nothing can substitute a library full of actual books. I just read an article to which I would not have had access had it not been for the Internet — but which could not have been written with only … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Interlibrary Loan
It is of course Friday, so we should be wearing white, and it is the weekend, so we should sing. I sing that I used to be surprised at what was happening. Then I was shocked, and then angry. After that I was sad, and then I was ashamed for a long time. Next I … More How Long, Lord? How Long?
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