The Racers of Murray State University (where Professor Hobo began) are currently 21-0, and the last undefeated team in men’s college basketball. Pretty cool, huh? Yes, though suddenly everyone feels like they had some part in it. That’s the weird thing about sports–everyone feels they’re on the team.
Oh well. Go Racers.
This is a fairly common occurrence in a college classroom. Oddly, the student doesn’t even have to have the luxury of a cell phone to distract them, as simply their own mind is often enough. Of course, there are probably a lot more who never ask, and I assume they have enough shame to not out themselves as not listening.
I am a huge fan of sugared cereal. In fact, I’m not sure things without sugar deserve to be called cereal. I suppose they’re basically porridge.
I like Froot Loops, Lucky Charms, and assorted other cereals that will surely give me a heart-attack before I’m 40. I’m guessing the fruit in Froot Loops is misspelled for legal reasons, since they contain nothing remotely close to fruit.
At this point, I’m not even sure people care who gets the Republican nomination for President. I think a large majority of people are just being entertained by the best series on television this year. You have plot twists with Herman Cain, and emotional breakdowns with Rick Perry. You have the straight man in Mitt Romney, and the crazy uncle in Newt Gingrich. Or maybe that’s Ron Paul?
Regardless of plot developments, I think both Democrats and Republicans are so entertained they hate to see all this end.
I always feel this way when someone starts telling me the importance of some video game or movie. Sure, many are culturally significant, but rarely are they as important to the world as they are to the individual. And usually even then they’re not nearly as important to that person as they at first believe.
In other news, that guy playing Batman was pretty awesome.
Today Wikipedia is going dark along with Reddit and many other sites to protest SOPA and PIPA. Both are bills hoping to protect intellectual property owners, but you likely already know all of this. Censorship is never the right answer.
By the way, some conventions that attract, umm, nerdy types have started to ask them to bathe and wear deodorant. Yep, this is one of those ripped-from-the-headlines type strips.
I would love to attend a convention that pays equal parts attention to The Sound and The Fury, Lost, and Benji the dog. Alas, I suppose we all can dream. Seriously though, once you get down to the second or third tier of comic conventions, the “guests” can get quite disappointing.
Consultants get a lot of work in education, but I’m never quite sure what their qualifications are. Mostly, they seem to be having the title of consultant. This is like bringing in a florist to consult a surgeon before a heart transplant. Somehow, it just doesn’t make sense.
As with many things in life, a fight between two English nerds begins to sound an awful lot like a Pokemon match after a while. I’m not quite sure why that is, but I guess the glorified game of rock, paper, scissors is part of the charm of the Pokemon franchise.
Also, literary theory taken out of context really sounds silly to argue about.
I’ve heard on occasion people push using random technologies more or less in class. Sometimes it’s texting, or PowerPoint, or Internet, or…whatever. Not that there can’t be any use for texting in a class, but it probably shouldn’t be forced.
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