Today with Creole plate lunches we were talking about strategies for getting things done. We already know that in summer, to assign oneself four hours of work each day and take the rest of the time off is a wonderful, relaxing, renewing strategy. First a week’s absolute vacation, then this. So we are not talking … More Ser alguien
We — my only real colleague and I — have both decided, independently of one another, that we are no longer unhappy with Maringouin, our town, or even with Vichy State, our university. It is our main department that dogs us, by undermining our senses of self and professional expertise. I, meanwhile, have been talking to … More Sur la productivité
¿Maras, hambre, ignorancia? Los niños trabajadores y abandonados de América central salen a correr al “país del nunca jamás” guiados por esa especie de sombra impuesta por el norte sobre el sur de nuestra América, con su manera de susurrar que el único camino a la vida mejor es la renuncia a la dignidad. This is quite … More Esto es significativo
Icelandic sweaters, an icon of national identity, appear to have been invented in the 1950s. The patterns are Inuit, after the Greenlandic ones, and the Inuit had traced these patterns in beads brought from Denmark. Axé.
Icelandic has “fyrirboði” Faroese has “fyriboðan” The Faroese word “fyriboðan” is translated: portent; presage (t.d. of evil, of good); omen (t.d. an omen of success, of failure); sign, augury; (um vanda, vanlukku eis.) forewarning, foreboding; (um eydnuríkt úrslit) auspice (um of) (vanliga flt, t.d. the auspices are good); vera ~ um (eis.) foreshadow, presage; (um … More fyrirboði
…que la meva universitat és una sangonera incompetent. #OccupyHE Axé.
I had this flash of happiness and competence yesterday. Not just a clear memory of life before Reeducation, but the real thing. …I was able to shut the mistreatment off completely, and also the idea that I am not qualified to do what I am doing. …This was possible in part because of having had … More La lucidez
…but I would appear to be preaching. Chris Newfield “In contrast to professional authority, which is grounded in expertise and expert communities, managerial authority flows from its ties to owners and is formally independent of expertise. . . The absence of contact with and substantive knowledge of core activities, in managerial culture, function as an … More Some essays on assessment and its relation to governance that I would like to send my colleagues
Some time ago I was a referee for this article and liked it. I see the journal agreed, because the piece is out … so I know who wrote it. Now we should all read more things by Silvia Goldman. #OccupyHE Axé.
Il nous a écrit: Today, once again, we celebrate our independence from Britain, accomplished with the decisive aid of Britain’s arch-enemy France. It should be noted that the legal declaration of independence was not on July 4, but July 2, when the Virginian Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that “these United Colonies” were thirteen “free and … More Ned Sublette
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