I’ve attended several graduations, and this is unfortunately how most of them go. THis should not come as a surprise, seeing as how we don’t generally choose commencement speakers based on their oratory skills, but instead based off life achievement. This is sort of like choosing a relief pitcher based off who has the best hair.
There’s been a big push to move everything digital in higher education. Tablet computers are sexy, and boy do they seem more appealing than stuffy old textbooks. Apple has even made great promos of what the future of textbooks could look like, even with soem real examples.
The problem is twofold. First, it will take years to redo textbooks into a more interactive format. Second, even when done, it won’t technically make learning any more exciting or fun. CD-ROMs were supposed to do that in the 1990′s, and while they sort of work at making The Oregon Trail more flashy, they didn’t really revolutionize education.
First off, we don’t hate Walmart. I know some people do for either political, economic, or purely snobbish reasons. While they are flawed, so are a lot of other companies, and I wouldn’t claim to know enough truly about how they operate to judge (unless someone has direct evidence of puppy drowning).
Second, having said that, Walmarts tend to vary greatly in quality. Some are clean, neat places to shop in. Some are like wandering into post-apocalyptic wastelands. It’s your own risk to step inside.
We have two cats and this is pretty much how they behave ninety percent of the time. THey really have little to no interest in us, except occasionally for food or petting. Some people worry about society overrun by machines like in the Matrix, but not cats. They’d simply reprogram them to fit their needs.
There seems to be a constant push to “fix” libraries. People claim they’re outdated or that books are no longer necessary. I suppose the greatest threat to the traditional library has been e-books, but even still there are so many services the average library offers that I find it difficult to believe they deserve on the endangered species list.
Sometimes it can be difficult to begin dissecting a paper. Problems tend to be more organic than self-contained. An issue of grammar tends to flow into an issue of structure, and separating the two isn’t as simple as telling individual approaches to each. Think of it more as a series of surgical strikes.
Yes, English is far more violent than you might have realized.
Yesterday my beloved Murray State Racers won their first round game in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. That’s great, but it doesn’t really change anything about my life. To listen to some friends celebrating on Facebook, you might assume it had. That’s an odd reaction to have.
Still, go Racers.
When I was a kid there was a constant fight between those who preferred the Eskimo Pie and those who preferred the Dream Bar. If you were headed to the grocery store, you knew you had to make a claim for your favorite or else be forced eating ice cream that didn’t exactly fit your personal taste. Oh, the many inhumanities we suffer in this day and age.
I always like the idea of self-repairing technology. I think many people believe nanites already live inside of their TV and computer and will fix them on their own. For example, I have been asked before, “My computer died, so do you think I should do anything?” Or what? Let it continue to be dead? No, at least give it a proper burial at sea.
One supposes if God worries about keeping his job, he has to build in some manner of keeping himself important. He’s not building new planets and stars (that we know of), so He must be crafting new souls. And yes, that is another comic rationale that I’m sure can offend both sides of the issue. Let’s sit back and watch the comments!
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