tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post1914501700789861037..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49743304504064909892015-03-17T13:41:08.393-04:002015-03-17T13:41:08.393-04:00Don't be silly.Don't be silly.College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-45638559979956437102015-03-17T09:11:07.598-04:002015-03-17T09:11:07.598-04:00Clearly I didn't work hard enough. And the thi...Clearly I didn't work hard enough. And the thing I referred to isn't really an ablative absolute, either. This day is turning into shit.<br /><br />I should have said this earlier: Sorry, Terry.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2952889933590924502015-03-17T08:46:57.334-04:002015-03-17T08:46:57.334-04:00Except that the people I work with would get the n...Except that the people I work with would get the numbers wrong. Verisimilitude. You know, like getting the voice of the stommelgangers different from your ownEC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84978326577555751082015-03-17T07:51:34.701-04:002015-03-17T07:51:34.701-04:00It suits my needs fine the way it is. I thought I ...It suits my needs fine the way it is. I thought I was playing on the idea of the futility of my writing something that nobody would read. I see now that the ablative absolute was over the top. That whole sentence of mine is just stupid. <br /><br />But the joke's good? Please tell me the joke's good. I worked really hard on it.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71916564060222979462015-03-17T07:32:53.536-04:002015-03-17T07:32:53.536-04:00One more:
"I see you're intrigued by my ...One more:<br /><br />"I see you're intrigued by my new copy of <a href="http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2015/03/twit.html?showComment=1426522044047#c6614991875898761213" rel="nofollow"><em>Annual Review of This Article has been Removed by the Author</em></a>."Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78867589157751114382015-03-17T07:10:53.941-04:002015-03-17T07:10:53.941-04:00Why don't you just tell me how to best run the...Why don't you just tell me how to best run the page to suit your needs?<br /><br />Where should the new tennis scores go? It is our home school, you know.College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57111337560475421832015-03-17T07:06:55.615-04:002015-03-17T07:06:55.615-04:00OK, displaced by tennis scores, this post has left...OK, displaced by tennis scores, this post has left the front page, so nobody will read it anymore. I nevertheless have one more caption to add to the meme:<br /><br />"I'll write out the math for you again. See, for every $10 I trim from your cost-of-living-only raise, I only get $1. With 100 faculty in your division, that saves the university $900. Everybody wins!"Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54888758775390539632015-03-17T06:58:20.866-04:002015-03-17T06:58:20.866-04:00Thanks Ben, I may try that. My trepidation is that...Thanks Ben, I may try that. My trepidation is that while I am quite comfortable bouncing pinball-like off the ideas of others, the sustained effort required of an original piece comes far less easily to me. <br /><br />In its current form, the Translocompacitor reduces bafflegab to the idea (conscious or not) that generated it. By laying out the state flow diagram (or whatever that is) Prof. Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54224055498533893872015-03-17T00:19:13.694-04:002015-03-17T00:19:13.694-04:00Oh, yeah. And all those nodes are empty of semant...Oh, yeah. And all those nodes are empty of semantic content. It goes without saying. Colorless green ideas tweet furiously.Professor Chiltepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087270705989845484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47481261395431312362015-03-17T00:18:19.586-04:002015-03-17T00:18:19.586-04:00I think EC1 is on to something. If we imagine a p...I think EC1 is on to something. If we imagine a phrase structure rule, like SP -> pret S', and S' -> S XP, then a sentence is an IP of the form IP -> ct I', I' -> I SP. Let SP be "smugness phrase" or perhaps "sock puppet," pret be a determiner in the form of a pretentious pronouncement like "radical subjectivity," and ct be a "Professor Chiltepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087270705989845484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-87985921211799876622015-03-16T21:50:34.238-04:002015-03-16T21:50:34.238-04:00Oph, you need to develop this idea into a full pos...Oph, you need to develop this idea into a full post. Translate "dean-speak" or aomething. It deserves to see the light of day, not be vuried in (wonderfully entertaining) blog comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47750816689637961062015-03-16T20:50:15.172-04:002015-03-16T20:50:15.172-04:00Heh. When EC1 mentioned smug, I did indeed flash t...Heh. When EC1 mentioned smug, I did indeed flash to the South Park episode excerpted in the link that Pat provided. On the other hand, if you make fun of intellectuals driving Priuses, you're gonna have a bad time. Not really; it is raucous good fun.<br /><br />Now, the Translocompacitor. It turns out I had it set to mimic the sentence structure of the input, which means that when fed tweets,Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-20492163072314971982015-03-16T16:29:47.971-04:002015-03-16T16:29:47.971-04:00Anything written in Stommelese should come with a ...Anything written in Stommelese should come with a <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KIo9fSPAdV_CsAWMQsnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNjdrdmllBHNlYwNzYwRzbGsDaHF2aWQEdnRpZAMEdmlkAzAwMDE0MjIwNDI2OARncG9zAzE-?p=smug+south+park&vid=000142204268&l=1%3A48&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fd2.yimg.com%2Fsr%2Fvideo%2Fthm-300x300%2F373ed6da-74f1-38d1-8792-febd31518fae&rurl=http%3A%2F%Pat from Peoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005657976057072299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-34579693454774504882015-03-16T14:25:25.270-04:002015-03-16T14:25:25.270-04:00I may have stumbled upon an explanation of the con...I may have stumbled upon an explanation of the conflicting output. More later. <br /><br />Meantime, as to the last concern, I'm not sure the machine will last long enough to run that experiment. Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79036554211148488492015-03-16T14:09:57.298-04:002015-03-16T14:09:57.298-04:00Stommelese appears to be a smug-driven phrase stru...Stommelese appears to be a smug-driven phrase struture grammar (despite marked forms of Stommelesian dependency as noted in Pass 2).<br />We are concerned as to whether the Translocompacitor could handle the increased level of smug if / when tenure occurs.EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72324712831648649142015-03-16T13:23:13.860-04:002015-03-16T13:23:13.860-04:00The Translocompacitor (R) is indeed inspired by th...The Translocompacitor (R) is indeed inspired by the Transmogrifier of Calvin & Hobbes. It shares many design features and most importantly operates within a similar neural computing platform.<br /><br />Various phrases of Stommelese have been fed into the Translocompacitor, which in all cases yielded a single output phrase irrespective of the actual input phrase. Intriguingly, when the outputOgre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-9616652153682561752015-03-16T12:55:22.309-04:002015-03-16T12:55:22.309-04:00Further riffing on the blank page theme (thanks to...Further riffing on the blank page theme (thanks to EC1 for getting that rolling):<br /><br />"I got your grade for all your skipped assignments right here."<br /><br />"99% of what I do in class is listen. This journal contains everything of merit that I and my students have learned from this pedagogy."Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-4062514209480138882015-03-16T12:54:13.707-04:002015-03-16T12:54:13.707-04:00Ditto. Ditto. Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39688676737798162802015-03-16T09:16:22.601-04:002015-03-16T09:16:22.601-04:00Does the Translocompacitor work on Stommelese?
An...Does the Translocompacitor work on Stommelese?<br /><br />And I bet Calvin (& Hobbes) would have found a use for one of those!EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-62408101914535954012015-03-16T08:51:02.700-04:002015-03-16T08:51:02.700-04:00I love all of you. I love all of you. BurntChromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055976331443607569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41329005822449722442015-03-16T06:34:24.362-04:002015-03-16T06:34:24.362-04:00Translocompacitor says: "My load is all semin...Translocompacitor says: "My load is all seminars, 500-level and up."Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39827346139594174502015-03-15T23:26:18.404-04:002015-03-15T23:26:18.404-04:00"Don't worry about student evals. I'm..."Don't worry about student evals. I'm a very tough grader, and my evals are great!" Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15711314415244801354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28151046203228813882015-03-15T19:53:44.006-04:002015-03-15T19:53:44.006-04:00You heard me correctly. Assessment obfuscates peda...You heard me correctly. Assessment obfuscates pedagogy.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-21916069090429015302015-03-15T19:52:37.310-04:002015-03-15T19:52:37.310-04:00I've called you here to discuss your annual pe...I've called you here to discuss your annual performance review. Will you be making the usual wire transfer to my account in the Caymans, or will you be opting to pursue opportunities at another institution?Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53318360435178724412015-03-15T19:47:51.207-04:002015-03-15T19:47:51.207-04:00An appointment? I'm not showing any openings i...An appointment? I'm not showing any openings in my book.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.com