{"id":1717,"date":"2009-09-12T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-09-12T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:50:55","slug":"whirlwind-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Whirlwind notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idiosyncratic comments of the week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I found out about a death in the family last week. Fortunately, everyone on that side of the family is sane, so we only have grieving and normal headaches involved. I am going to be even further behind than I had already anticipated. Or I&#8217;ll just have to put more perspective on things (including spending time remembering and missing the person who&#8217;s gone). <\/li>\n<li>In part because of this, I&#8217;ve already had more driving than even the heavy-driving fall I&#8217;d been planning for. My mp3 player is getting a huge workout, and I&#8217;ve already heard the entire unabridged <i>Free<\/i> by Chris Anderson. I think it&#8217;s the Chronicle of Higher Ed tech podcasters who quipped that if the unabridged audiobook is free, and you have to pay a small amount to get the shortened audiobook, what&#8217;ll he charge you for not listening to it at all?! Anderson shows his ignorance of psychology by using the long-debunked Maslow&#8217;s Hierarchy of Needs towards the end, but there are some very useful bits in the book. <\/li>\n<li>Academic bloggers Dr. Crazy and Tenured Radical have written entries recently on colleagues who are parents that look like they think seven wrongs make a right (i.e., see two colleagues in Demographic A who are slacking, start insulting everyone else in Demographic A). Uh, no. Slacking off is wrong. So are insults. I love your blogging, Dr C and TR, and you&#8217;re wrong here in the generalization.<\/li>\n<li>Last night I capped off the shortened week by trying to avoid the Drowned Rat Syndrome when the skies opened up before a high school football game. Son in band is good; going to band performance is good (oh, yeah, there&#8217;s a football game in there, too, somewhere); cancellation is understandable, but why not before we had to drive back through flooded streets?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>This is the second weekend in which I&#8217;m handling my online class over the weekend, when it seems a plurality of them are active. Tomorrow: more following of the discussion board, recording of presentation, message to students that there <i><b>are<\/b><\/i> online presentations that I create for a reason. And see how much I can read of their papers (including the batch last weekend whose planned grading has been blown up by family emergency needs). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please take care. And in lieu of sending real or virtual flowers, please hug or call your loved ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idiosyncratic comments of the week: I found out about a death in the family last week. Fortunately, everyone on that side of the family is sane, so we only have grieving and normal headaches involved. I am going to be even further behind than I had already anticipated. 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