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.
This stems a bit from the rapid increase in majors in forensic science programs after shows like CSI premiered. Many students thought their jobs would be like those on TV. Of course, journalism programs saw the same phenomenon in the 1970s after Watergate and the release of All the President’s Men.
I suspect there was a similar increase in astronomy majors after the release of Halo.
This is a pretty lowbrow joke. I do wonder sometimes if certain people in the media not only induce fear for ratings, but also because they perversely feed off of it in some manner, like a banshee.
I love when the local news attempts to scare me about the weather. It can be snowing an inch, and you’d think it was the coming apocalypse from the news. I get that there’s a certain degree of looking out for the public trust by warning us of the worst case scenario, but I think there might also be some sort of deal with the dairy farmers.
I’m not sure having one really skinny arm would be that useful, but I suppose entire X-Men have been based around being able to manipulate the size of your body. So yeah, if I had any control over it, being able to change the thickness of my arm might be useful.
This originates from the fact that I har people say this far too often. They tell me they support some disease, and not the fight against that disease. Of course, the fight against a disease is kind of goofy sounding too, but still a better option.
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