Video Urine Games!

FINALLY!!!


--gh


(I don't care what MCHawking thinks, "those punk a$$ b*tches from MIT" know what COOL is.)

Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10

Uh, like if you have the time and stuff, check out this interactive Java script that shows the universe and the carbon atoms of an oak tree with just a few steps in between. It seems that quarks look like carpet from the 1970s. Also, I was hoping that the ending slide would look exactly like the first. Kind of a "Horton Hears a Hoo" sort of twist...

--gh

Email Listservs

I only belong to two email lists. One is for department chairs in my discipline, which has only 5 messages per week. Another is list for university professors in my state. Everytime the sysop sends a message, people reply with questions to him, and it gets sent to the whole list. This guy is an idiot because he does not know how to set up the "reply-to" field for his messages. But the people reading and responding are even worse.

I got this today, meant to just one guy, but sent to thousands:

David, 

Do you know of any academics who are Republicans, or Conservative?  

--[name withheld because I feel sorry for this fool], Rockhurst.

It amazes me that everyone, including most academics themselves, think that you have to be liberal or a Democrat to be in academia. It always strikes me as close-minded.

Hey, this is funny. I was appointed by the Governor's office to a state commission, and I had to "disclose" my party affiliation. It said choose "Democrat" or "Republican" and that "Independent" was not acceptable. Not acceptable?

I chose "R" because I participated in the 2000 Republican primary. I wonder what they would do if I participate in the Democratic primary on SUPERTUESDAY. At least that will be after my state senate "confirmation" hearings. I am thinking of joining the Log House Republicans!

Two of my students think it is humorous that I had to fill out a disclosure statement and they are convinced that I will perjure myself before the state senate.

--gh
(getting all political again)

"recommend"

Hawaii was nice.

I am very concerned that I have been neglecting to spell the word "recommend" correctly. I let my word processor auto-correct my mistakes, and email spell-checker catches it as well. In fact, I wrote the word in another program, spell-checked it, and am copying "recommend" here right now.

Another problem may be that I have written the word "recommend" about fifty times in the past two days. I need to stop "recommending" and stuff...

(and no, I haven't written one letter of recommendation....)
--gh