Archive for the 'observational' Category

firefox, ie, truths, jackasses, pumpkins, blood, claws, frustrations, exams, and being a jerk

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Ugh. Craziness. Where to begin. Guess I’ll just go in topic-order. One big nasty blob of random goo to puke out all over the place. Guess I’ll keep the front page clean by hiding it all behind a “more” link though .

updates …

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

A conundrum … So gotwoot is a pretty interesting site, from an administrative standpoint. I’m finding it really hard to keep things up to date, partly because of the level of access to information I’ve got, and partly because of the way the site’s set up. Now, my work systems, I’ve got all the information [...]

my cynicism

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

I’ll break out one more from the archives… this one dates back to probably early-mid July, during Pol 130, while Phil 303 was fresh in my mind. I had a bit too many spare cycles, not enough games to play or anime to watch, and I wasn’t particularly careful about differentiating cynicism and pessimism. So [...]

Classroom interaction styles: is egalitarian irreverence the most effective approach?

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Ok, so I’ve seen a lot of lectures in my days here, and a lot of them have had very little if any room for interaction with the lecturer. I’ve gotten used to having a prof ask a rhetorical question, sort of muttering the answer under my breath knowing where he’s going, and before I’m [...]

Detriments of sci-fi…

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

This is another of those “in the unposted archives” entries that I half-wrote, and forgot about. It dates back to the early summer, not sure precisely when, but probably sometime after late may, since I talk about need for cognition — an idea I blatantly ripped off from social psych. I probably should re-visit it [...]