2. September, 2003 - back to work, slacker
- The big problem with Monday holidays is that they’re followed by a Tuesday. Tuesdays for me are normally meeting day. When the normal Monday administrivia gets added to that by a holiday, it makes for a morning where I’ve got to get about four hours worth of work done before 10am, and I usually don’t end up getting out of bed until 8am after the holiday. Today is not atypical.
- Being drunk in a pub may soon be illegal in Australia. Meanwhile, in Ireland similar laws against drunkenness have gone into effect. What’s the world coming to when a guy can’t have a couple dozen pints at his neighborhood pub without being liable for arrest? [fark!]
- Speaking of Ireland, the Irish language Wikipedia has some good information about the language, including the fact that it’s in rapid and perhaps terminal decline. One, maybe two more generations, and Irish Gaelic will likely be a dead language (unless something changes soon). [holy schmoly]
- In Friendly Fire, Evan talks about learning. He’s responding to an article headlined Can Grand Theft Auto Inspire Professors? I think he’s got a lot of good points, especially that requiring students to write essays is a good way to test their comprehension of the subject. Also, rote-memorization is still important for some things, as it’s the only way to get the data into your brain, so you can later put the pieces together. But Evan misses the scariest quote from the article:
Those of us who grew up with Nintendo are moving into professor positions.
I worry about the state of education a few years down the road. [101-280]
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Last updated on Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:56:10.