The view from the Ivory Tower: Archive

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Boy Named Sue Me singing with my brother’s band, “PettyCash” - a Johnny Cash/Tom Petty cover band. Fairly awful, but I’m glad I had the balls to do it.

Dec 31st

Steam Punk Technology I own:

un: egg Beater (hand crank) popcorn popper espresso machine I have: hand juicer crock pot steam-powered Wii

Dec 31st

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Forgotten 80s Nintendo Games

Dec 31st

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How to Make Your Smartphone Photos Look Like They... →

Dec 30th

The urge to have beer and leftover mac’n’cheese for breakfast does not mean I’m an alcoholic. It means I’m a “foodie” ahead of my time.

Dec 30th

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“How do you plan on celebrating Christmas? Eating and drinking too much with...”

– Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions - Speakeasy

Dec 25th

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Dec 23rd

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The Lost ‘Tron’ Holiday Special As a proud owner of a VHS copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special, I resent this parody…

Dec 23rd

Wikipedia: Lazarus taxon →

In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. I don’t know why this is posted, but I will reblog any sort of technical paleo material…

Dec 23rd

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Christmas Carols with GWAR Awesome, except for the lack of Slymenstra Hymen…

Dec 21st

Most Epic Road Trip Ever. →

coolgus: Not what you expect. But totally rad! This is the kind of dad I want to be someday…

Dec 21st

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“No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it...”

– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist

Dec 20th

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LensHero →

Dec 19th

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merlin: The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart (BBC2 Documentary, 1997) Narrated by genius DJ and longtime Beefheart champion, John Peel: A psychedelic shaman who frequently bullied his musicians and sometimes alarmed his fans, Don somehow remained one of rock’s great innocents. In 4 parts on YouTube. Watch above or via this playlist I made.

Dec 18th

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A Study in Contrasts...

Watched Blue Velvet followed by Paper Moon this evening.

Dec 18th

“Heineken! Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!”

– Watching Blue Velvet for the first time all the way through. Not sure I’m mentally prepared for this…

Dec 18th

“Spencer Bachus, the incoming G.O.P. chairman of the House Financial Services...”

– Wall Street Whitewash - NYTimes.com Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the G.O.P. How much proof do people need that they work for the banks and the rich and us?

Dec 17th

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Body Browser - Google Labs →

A nice start, but could use more detail, and the fact that you have to use Chrome beta to check it out is a bit annoying…

Dec 16th

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10 Huge Prehistoric Cats →

Why is it always that the big carnivores get all the press? How about somethin’ for the little guys?!

Dec 10th

Swindle of the year →

If Charles Krauthammer thinks the Republicans got the shaft on this tax deal, then maybe it’s not such a bad thing after all…

Dec 10th

Coffee made

Breakfast eaten. Time to start grading those papers. Oh look, the internet’s on…

Dec 10th

Grading

Done: 210 exams - 1 short essay question on each exam To Do: 25 papers - 4-5 pages each 350 exams - 1 page on each exam, short essay and math problems 35 exams - 10 pages each, mixture of multiple choice, short answer, short essay

Dec 10th