One of my cousin's daughters is going to UC-Davis. Do I need to tell her not to look history professors in the eye or is that covered in the admissions materials?
They put up posters around the campus.
Do history professors now turn one to stone?
Or have they always done so, and I was simply immune?
It's seen as a challenge and they might bite in response.
The bite isn't very powerful, but because of bacteria growing on food particles trapped between their teeth, you can get an infection that will bring you down.
Alpha. My particles kill bacteria.
To be sure, but a little bit a penicillin after a bite never hurts.
Check-in threads are the new open threads.
7: after the initial attack, the history professor will stalk the wounded undergraduate, sometimes for days, until he succumbs to blood poisoning and dies.
Questions for university faculty here: 1) What does your faculty handbook/contract say about teaching courses for other institutions without permission from your home institution? 2) Assuming that the answer to Q1 is somewhere on the spectrum of "you're on very iffy ground" to "you are so fired," did you know this before you looked up the answer?
(Asking because I am on the brink of witnessing a gigantic shit-show and am curious as to how ignorant of what I take to be the norm one could plausibly claim to be.)
I think in most states you're fine as long as you don't mention evolution.
Our guidelines about exactly what's allowed for outside work are annoyingly vague, but at least there are clear rules about what needs to be disclosed to the chair and teaching is clearly on that list. There's then a whole process to determine if it's ok or not.
I knew you couldn't take on other teaching during term, but I wasn't sure about the rules during the summer. Even looking at the handbook I'm not totally sure, but it seems like you are supposed to disclose external teaching even during the summer?
OT, but since I declared this an open thread: I didn't realize that the Covid response coordinator who brought us "fuck it, let's all get omicron" is the White House Chief of Staff now. I should start planning for my retirement The Great Default now.
12: if under contract, then clear it with the chair and dean. If not, technically no foul but probably advisable to let them know.
Facebook memories reminded me that today is the 10-year anniversary of the last UnfoggeDCon (or at the least the last one I attended). Waving a fond hello to all my reprobate friends. I miss you all!
17: I can't believe it's already been 10 years. That was a blast!
That was a wonderful weekend. Sure enough, baby Ace turned 10 a month ago.
If this blog exists ast 25, I think we have to do something big for that. Maybe rent a lake house instead of an. urban spot.
Just lost a nasty council committee vote. I went to the mat for bike lanes and lost. I'm fuming about it.
We are now planning to dig up our entire downtown, replace all the old pipes, and then replace everything on top exactly as it was, with exactly as many parking spaces, no change to our demented traffic pattern, no cool new public space made out of former roadway, and no room for separated bike lanes.
There is one more chance to get bike lanes put back into the project again, but its not looking good.
Yeah, it really sucks. It locks us in for another 30 years of what was designed in the 1970s.
17-20: Wow, the UnfoggeDeccaCon feels like a long time ago. That was fun, and I like the idea of considering a retreat in 5 years.