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I am pleased to note that Hanna has a tattoo of a Seabee. I wish there were an actual picture around.

Maybe a spider jumping will cheer me up. Today was my last day of teaching for a while. I feel somewhat pleased about this, even though the students were pretty cool this time around. It will be nice to do something different for a little while.
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I just reread Galactic Pot Healer (it'd been... uh, since college?) and unlike the somewhat unsympathetic reviewer at PKDfans (trying to find an inspiring message in a PKD book? Are you quite serious?) found it rather unusually accessible and generally pretty terrific and fun. The thing that it made me want to do, though, was to take the community college ceramics course I was meaning to take (is it too late to sign up? I guess not!) and make the Public Service Announcement pot the protagonist encounters. (This pot is found as an artifact underwater, but it shows in sequential panels the protagonist's actions. The last panel has an explicit written warning in a speech bubble or something - which may end up too long to actually fit on the pot and which I might just skip - and also a little note at the bottom reading 'This has been a public-service message.' [metaparenthetical note: when I just now went to check the exact wording of the message, I opened the book immediately to the right page. This is the most PKDian thing that has happened to me in recent memory, which means I totally should sign up for the ceramics course. That and also the empire never ended, and I should keep an eye out for hot 70s teenage girls who will tell me what to do via complex symbols.])

The pot was awful.
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I'm pretty sure I already linked to a sum-up of this study, but here's another writeup. It's the study wherein it was determined that kids will work harder and do better in school if praised for effort rather than intelligence. Like probably half of the people who read this, I completely have the illustration example problem, wherein I give up really easily if a new skill doesn't jump into my waiting hands. It's not even for fear of failure anymore, it's more that I don't know how to proceed. I mean, I'm getting better at this, but it's still weird.
Regardless, I've been trying, while teaching, to follow this rule. I have no idea if it's working or anything, and I'm teaching adults, but oh well. Might be helpful, who knows.
I was somewhat annoyed at that mom the article interviewed who said that it was too goofy to talk that way. Duh, there's a reason you do it the way you do it. Culture is strong.

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Mar. 6th, 2007 08:25 pm
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Me (to students, 8:25pm): That's another thing you should take from this course. Don't eat ground glass.
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I'm really extra pleased by this, because, I mean, come on, I went to art school. I have no real skills.



Roofle pwned HARVARD GRAD LEVEL midterm11!! Hooray for my nonexistent career in science!
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I am halfway done with my animal cognition midterm paper. Here is a burnier than average excerpt:
So then, at the bottom left of page 308, it's stated that all these muddy ideas are to be crammed together into a study, with two subjects and three experiments, and somehow all of it will fall out into a beautiful perfect conclusion.


Ooh, Mssrs. Josep Call and Michael Tomasello are so pwned.
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Geh! I'm finally done with my crapulent paper which I hilariously wound up with a rambling recap of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. It's funny because I have no formal sciencey training!
Anyway, what's the internet been doing for the past bunch of days?

PS: Carl Zimmer's got another neat article up.
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Obnoxious Evidence )

This is a book I needed today, but it is apparently instead going to sit in a UPS-branded spa facility, IN-STATE, until a scant day before I need to hand in a paper on it. Awesome!

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