The Professor’s Notes

Ever want to listen to music, but just don’t know what you want?  Try a completely random, stream of consciousness playlist.  Go to the search window (see below) and type in the first word that comes to mind.  This will search all your songs for that word in the title, artis, and even in the [...]

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Full Disclosure:  I have been involved in my fair share of flame wars since I was rapping through a 300 baud acoustical coupler “back in the day.”   Have personally been the victim of some pretty scurrilous, underhanded, unethical, and somewhat disturbing personal smear campaigns.  [eg crossposting threads after removing the home thread; allowing the protagonist [...]

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Perhaps it was the time of night, or perhaps it is because I remember so fondly the renaissance of Baroque music in the early 80s. (Baroque, and Ronald Reagan but captivated the nation–coincidence?) Either way, I found this performance to be quite enjoyable which is a nice way of saying I really laughed [...]

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I have been “tagged” by my brother to do a “book” meme.  The rules:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more (no cheating!)
Find page 123
Find the first five sentences
Post the next three sentences
Tag five people

Okay–so the book is Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies by Simchi-Levy, Kaminsky, and [...]

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You all might remember my good friend Fleshy or at the liberal blog Pressing the Flesh. Well, he found a great video where a Hillary and an Obama supporter duke it out in true name-calling fashion. It was–well, judge for yourself:

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Okay, so if we were to make websites actually be “people” this MIGHT be how the party would go down, eh dawg? 

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I was asked the other day who I support for President. When it comes to Presidential Candidates, I am looking for really two things: adherence to solid conservative neigh libertarian principles, and a sense of humor. I have supported Fred Thompson for this very reason.
With this video, I am tempted to change [...]

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I wondered what people were saying when they said their screen went black… mine didn’t either.

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

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Language Log: Who is the decider?
I must say, I find this “episode” of the Language Log uniquely satisfying. Partially because I too have fallen prey to the odd grammatical error, now and again. But mostly because it serves as a humbling reminder that we all fail, and thus, as we point out each [...]

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Language Log: Heated words about “sauna”
Wow… Frazz, one of my all-time favorite comicstrips (I am not such as avid junky as my brother and father) makes the big-time in the Language Log! Okay, so I enjoy the language log for their defense of freedom of speech AND their defense of speech…
But this one, well, [...]

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