Mises à jour des statuts de la communauté
Aimi
What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Inquisitor.
mai 23 2014 06:43
Aimi
Yeah, but when an actor tells you he's done the research, it means he's switched on the computer, Googled his own name, and had a quick ******.
mai 15 2014 07:45
Aimi
In the infamous 2002 WCF Game 6 officiating screwjob, the Lakers shot 40 free throws. Tonight, the Thunder got 46.
mai 14 2014 06:05
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Dean_the_Young
What class was it? Are history students as snarky and pretentious with their papers as they were with engineering students? (Or, as the old joke went- an Engineer tells the history student their degree will get them a job at Starbucks, and the historian just plays a clip of the Tacoma Narrows bridge.)
mai 13 2014 03:39 -
Aimi
Emergency fill-in for an upper-division undergrad course on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. So I didn't come up with course policy or tests or anything myself; the actual professor had everything all ready to go before he got injured in the last month of the semester.
Some of the papers were...kinda bad. One of my pet peeves is 'people who don't really know what they're talking about but act like they do', so seeing somebody blather on for several pag...
mai 13 2014 04:21 -
Aimi
...several pages on a bad thesis without recent historiography was a little obnoxious. On the other hand, there were three papers that I thought were really, really good, though, and most papers were at least competent.
The real problem was grading the exams, because university policy requires final grades to be in within three days of the testing time. That was fun.
mai 13 2014 04:24
Aimi
"Highly irregular" is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.
mai 09 2014 07:17
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Dean_the_Young
This I got to hear.
mai 09 2014 12:57 -
Aimi
It's from the FX miniseries version of "Fargo". Billy Bob Thornton's character is amazing.
mai 10 2014 12:08 -
Dean_the_Young
Oh, and here I was hoping your life was just so exciting that body parts only warrant a 'irregular.'
mai 10 2014 09:34
Aimi
After a long, exhausting, frustrating day, there's nothing quite like peer-editing a paper and tearing the writing to shreds.
mai 06 2014 06:13
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Dean_the_Young
Wow, I actually knew that one! That's the second season second opening for Gundam 00. Good memories.
avril 30 2014 10:08
Aimi
I just informed a friend that I was available for drinks in the afternoon because after class I'm "as free as the dust in the solar wind".
avril 25 2014 03:45
Aimi
George Pickett on why the South lost the Civil War: "I always thought that the yankees had something to do with it."
avril 16 2014 06:46
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Dean_the_Young
Dem Damn Rebels might have influenced it a bit as well.
avril 17 2014 12:37
Aimi
It's time to play "apply Rancière to things that are unrelated to his philosophy" again! My favorite parlor game.
avril 13 2014 03:30




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