In honour of one of my favourite little pieces of Simpson's dialogue:
Any one of my students who uses either the word "embiggen" or "cromulent" in their critical summaries or mid-terms will receive a perfect grade.
Examples include, but are not limited to, "Our discussion of concequentialist ethics can be embiggened by analyzing Utilitarianism in particular." Or, "The Cruzan case is a perfectly cromulent example...
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Any one of my students who uses either the word "embiggen" or "cromulent" in their critical summaries or mid-terms will receive a perfect grade.
Examples include, but are not limited to, "Our discussion of concequentialist ethics can be embiggened by analyzing Utilitarianism in particular." Or, "The Cruzan case is a perfectly cromulent example...
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The rule of law is on life support.
This is going to be a close run thing - cross your fingers.
This is going to be a close run thing - cross your fingers.
brookelynne:
Sort of makes you wonder whats really happening.
You know what's really sexy? Getting a box full of books from Amazon.
You know what's REALLY, REALLY sexy? Getting TWO boxes full of books from Amazon. At the same time.
My internal book nerd just had some sort of pleasure induced aneurism.
Pictures to follow. (Of the books and Amazon detritus, not the aneurism.)
You know what's REALLY, REALLY sexy? Getting TWO boxes full of books from Amazon. At the same time.
My internal book nerd just had some sort of pleasure induced aneurism.
Pictures to follow. (Of the books and Amazon detritus, not the aneurism.)
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racing_snail:
New Books are awesome..........Unless they're school books.
For me If it's boxes full of kids books that kicks ass. Like "Everyone poops" or "hotyon hatches the egg"
Oh yeah.
For me If it's boxes full of kids books that kicks ass. Like "Everyone poops" or "hotyon hatches the egg"
Oh yeah.
ch1st0ph3r:
God I just love how they show up magically at the door. Mind you, I still have mixed feelings about the air-filled pillows. I do love stabbing them and squeezing out the air though.
It's the little things, really.
It's the little things, really.
I've learned a few interesting things in the last couple of days. Well, interesting to me, at least.
Firstly, Amazon.com is possibly the greatest human invention. If I need a $500 espresso maker rushed to my apartment, (and I just might,) it could happen. To say nothing of huge volumes of critical and democratic theory textbooks. Wonderful, sexy books.
By contrast, Amazon.ca is the online...
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Firstly, Amazon.com is possibly the greatest human invention. If I need a $500 espresso maker rushed to my apartment, (and I just might,) it could happen. To say nothing of huge volumes of critical and democratic theory textbooks. Wonderful, sexy books.
By contrast, Amazon.ca is the online...
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ch1st0ph3r:
Yes, Amazon.ca is totally pants in comparison to it's American equivalent. I wonder why that is?
racing_snail:
That happened to me once. I ended up just making instant coffe and cried myself to sleep. 
hehehe
heheheIn about 1 week, a large stack of books will arrive at my door from Amazon. It's Thesis Book Buying time - this is mighty scary.
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pillango:
my essay is about spatial and temporal discrepancies in mrs. dalloway, the new york trilogies, and cosmopolis. basically i'm attempting to show that the so-called discrepancies are tools to show characterization. for example, that a character is mad (septimus in mrs. d) or conditioned by the pomo city/society and capitalism (quinn in n.y.t [city of glass] and eric packer in cosmopolis).
of course my essay makes even less sense than that ridiculous stab at an explanation.
of course my essay makes even less sense than that ridiculous stab at an explanation.
brookelynne:
Buying the books and reasearching...I'm putting it off until last minute.
How irresponsible of me
How irresponsible of me
Dear Corporation of the City of Guelph,
Please stop hiring the following people for your parking enforcement units:
1) Nazis.
2) The illiterate.
3) The mentally disabled.
4) Graduates from "Law & Security" programs at shitty Ontario community colleges - bitter because they want to be policemen, but programs like that only qualify them to be mall-cops and so are on some wretched little power...
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Please stop hiring the following people for your parking enforcement units:
1) Nazis.
2) The illiterate.
3) The mentally disabled.
4) Graduates from "Law & Security" programs at shitty Ontario community colleges - bitter because they want to be policemen, but programs like that only qualify them to be mall-cops and so are on some wretched little power...
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pillango:
haha
yes!
i could write a 15 page essay about all that is wrong with guelph. but alas, i have a REAL 15 page essay due in just a few days.
yes!
i could write a 15 page essay about all that is wrong with guelph. but alas, i have a REAL 15 page essay due in just a few days.
I just stumbled upon some restored and subtly modernized Aeroflot logos. They have to be some of the prettiest little pieces of graphic design I've come across!
Neato!
Neato!
pillango:
better than book smell?
I spent something like my entire grade 8 and 9 life playing a computer game called Wing Commander: Privateer. It was immersive. It had a well developed universe within the Wing Commander storyline, (for the day,) beautiful graphics, and felt like a real place. It was about the most fun a 13 year old boy could have with his pants on.
Now, this. A remake....
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Now, this. A remake....
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sebastien:
Hey remember the really shitty movie they made based on the game?... Ya, neither do I.
Hello big stack of Mid-terms. I am your worst nightmare: a marking machine.
I will tear you apart, oh pile of mid-terms, and put you back together again. Some of you will get 90's, some of you will fail dismally.
Consider yourself warned, you stack of flimsy exam booklets!
The red pen is hovering. En guard...
I will tear you apart, oh pile of mid-terms, and put you back together again. Some of you will get 90's, some of you will fail dismally.
Consider yourself warned, you stack of flimsy exam booklets!
The red pen is hovering. En guard...
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pillango:
you should mark my essays. perhaps i'd get some honest critique instead of superior sounding babble or "good work" with an effing B+.
chanel:
Sounds like those mid terms are in for a shit kicking. 
Ah! There we are! I managed to clear up the pixelated fuzz on my profile pic.
pillango:
good job.
oh it sucks to be back here after a week in paradise.
oh it sucks to be back here after a week in paradise.
I've never been to Paris.
I hear the wine is better there