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Ways to cheat on foursquare

~LS~ — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:40:34 +0000

1. Add your home as a venue. 2. Become mayor of your home. 3. Add your work as a venue. 4. Become mayor of your job. 5. Add places that are clearly not venues like THE BEACH. The beach is not a venue. 6. Become mayor of the... Read more

The hidden cost of graduate school

~LS~ — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:02:40 +0000

So I just paid my student loan a couple of days ago, which basically means I hit a button on the loan website and depleted my financial resources for another month. I started to reflect on the debilitating costs of graduate school, costs which most... Read more

Ben Franklin’s Facebook Status

~LS~ — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:40:53 +0000

Today's Times Book Review section has a nicely written, humorous article on Ben Franklin and his Almanac: Ben Franklin is a Big Fat Idiot. The title made it mandatory reading for me given my utter adulation of Al Franken. In fact, the author, Joe... Read more

I heart Al Franken

~LS~ — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:08:58 +0000

I'm entirely jealous of the people of Minnesota on a daily basis. I have friended/liked Al Franken's Facebook page and so I get posts about his work on several times a day. Jealous, jealous, jealous. He does so much good, progressive work, and he's... Read more

Email signatures

~LS~ — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:13:02 +0000

Lately I've been getting a lot of email with a certain type of signature file that cracks me up. Usually the emails are from people in corporate offices, but some people at school have them too. They are wordy, legalistic disclaimers about privacy... Read more

MLIS @ LSU

~LS~ — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:25:59 +0000

I should have linked to this before, but I didn't think of it. The LSU library and information science program is under threat of closure due to budget cuts. I wrote a letter in to the Advocate in support of the program. It actually got... Read more

Teaching evaluations

~LS~ — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:34:03 +0000

I got my teaching evaluations back yesterday. I have been thinking lately about faculty reviews and teaching evaluations because they are such an issue at school lately. Our student ratings are incorporated in our annual reviews, so the numbers... Read more

Wordpress 3

~LS~ — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:46:56 +0000

It looks... Read more

My signature

~LS~ — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:19:32 +0000

I lost my social security card recently and I was very bummed about it. Even though I could get a new card, my old card was my original and it had my signature from when I was thirteen years old. I got sort of sentimental about it. Luckily I found... Read more

Summer goals 2010

~LS~ — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:06:54 +0000

Believe it or not I’m a good week and a half into the summer and I feel like time is flying by. I don’t like that. Finally yesterday I sat down and set out my goals and I think I have entirely too much to do. Hopefully I can make a dent in... Read more