Can you please explain the advantages of bibliography managers, spreadsheets, and so on to people who are good typists and know how to use calculators? While I was learning (x)html and so on, everyone seems to have started using programs like Excel and JabRef, and I do not yet understand why. I understand what these … More Question
The pictures in that video would have looked exotic to me at one time but they no longer do, as such scenes can still be seen. Someone else says: I’m tired of the confidence, the guys who act as if the wind is at their backs, all of which cloaks the true effort involved. Let’s … More Ain’t It Hard
This film looks excellent. I found it, of course, while looking for something else, and it reminded me of one of the many ironies of life. There were long term Uruguayan exchange students at my high school. They had left before the 1973 coup but by the time they went home, the military had been … More Resisting Juan María Bordaberry
Addendum, Part A: I regularly get people into good PhD programs in my field and many of them, as well as those whose dissertations I directed or was on, now hold good jobs and high ranks. My advising question, below and now in red, has to do with the social sciences. I am still soliciting … More Further Anti-Advice to New Faculty, and an Advising Question, Revised
I had written about three more paragraphs of vitriol, about my irritation with entitled beings, but I erased them inadvertently and cannot reconstruct. I feel horrible because of teaching 5 classes and doing other work too, it is grueling, and I do not have good habits at this time (as in, always going to the … More 937
So glad to have known you. We will see you again. Mass is Monday, September 12 at 11 a.m. at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 2022 Saint Bernard Avenue. Axé.
This is an Alan Lomax recording. The picture is apparently from the 50s but that is exactly how the men at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola look walking out to work each morning, today. I am trying to decide what records I will send to the people far away who helped with my bibliography. … More Go Down Old Hannah
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The other reason I resent all the advisors who preach about how you should do a poor job teaching is that well known professors gave very responsible courses, that I took as an undergraduate, at one of the premier research institutions in the world. They had good materials, they prepared interesting essay questions, they did … More Vitriol, Part x(n)
I do not know how many times I have given advice to new faculty, or been given advice, so I have numbered this with a series of functions and variables. I am rebelling by giving anti-advice, as there are so many faculty proffering the kind of advice one gets in graduate school. I dislike re-hearing … More Advice to New Faculty, Version (f)xne
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