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Last chance to tell me off
No, it’s not: you’re always welcome to tell me off in comments. But this is the last day that the January 2009 reader survey will be available. Again, my thanks to everyone who has participated. It takes just a few minutes (or more if you want to give me lots of ideas for topics). Tell […]
Reader survey to tell Sherman Dorn what to do
If you would like to tell me what I’m doing right and wrong in this blog, as well as suggest topics for me to write about in the next few months, please click here to take a seven-question survey. This is not for publication but just for my use in figuring out where to go […]
What you do today if you don’t celebrate Christmas
To all of my readers who celebrate, please have a wonderful Christmas. This morning, I’ll be upgrading the blog’s software. Update: I need to fiddle with templates a bit, but the Big Bad Scary Upgrade is done, with relatively little pain. Thanks to Jose Vilson for the shove.
Cosmic-ray bursts. They must be.
Or at least that’s how I explain the odd pattern of phone calls I’ve been receiving recently, where people fail to leave messages even though I didn’t answer the calls. Some of them have been local, and I am guessing they are wrong numbers. But in the past few weeks I’ve received a series of […]
The good, the bad, and the supremely weird
By Sherman Dorn on January 27, 2009
The good DeanDad shows that he understands higher-ed history far better than Stanley Fish. Eduwonkette has a new gig (sociology at New York University). Barack Obama has been president for a little less than a week, and he’s already fulfilled a bunch of campaign promises. (Well, it’s good from my perspective.) Paul Krugman’s been tearing […]
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