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 Finishing my reply tojournal article, 4000 words. Almost half my own views on topic
So it is not enough for a full article. Question: maybe put my own ideas in an appendix?
 because they are too long for footnotes. Journal doesn't accept end notes that I prefer.

 And it is sent out for review. But not to the author, but he can respond to it.

Quote from: spork on April 20, 2024, 04:53:24 AMBacone College is dead in all but name.

Apparently it has been for several years now.  I see in looking at its recent history that it was already essentially bankrupt in 2018.  But a consortium tried to take it over and revitalize it.  Apparently they were hoping for federal funding that failed to come through.

The HVAC company that put their campus on the auction block for unpaid bills relented, no doubt because they didn't want to look like the bad guys.  But yes, it's pretty obvious that the school has no money to pay its bills, so no vendors are going to want to deal with it for any kinds of goods or services.  Absent some massive money dropping down out of the sky on the school, there's surely no way to recover.

Quote from: EdnaMode on April 19, 2024, 03:48:02 PMAfter he retired from the military, my Dad worked as a machinist. I always wanted to help him starting when I was little and he gave me small, safe, chores to do and explained what he was doing. I was probably the only elementary school kid who had a basic understanding of torque. I do a lot of my own home repairs, and the stuff I can't do, I follow the repairmen around asking all sorts of questions so I'm sure my Dad is smiling down from the great beyond saying "That's my girl!"

You sound like a retired engineer of my acquaintance.  When he was a boy walking home from school, he would visit every shop in his small town and try to see what the guys there were doing.  Once they saw that he wasn't going to make trouble, they'd let him hang around and ask questions.  By the time he was in high school the manager of a local welding and machine shop had come to let him have the run of the place and all its equipment to work on any project he wanted.

I try to understand what our repair technicians are doing when they work at the library.  If I can learn something about what's actually supposed to be happening with the different systems, I can ask intelligent (hopefully) questions to help diagnose and prevent problems.  Assuming they can be diagnosed and prevented, which is not always the case.

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Quote from: fishbrains on April 18, 2024, 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies.  Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.

Do you perhaps mean "Whilst that's understandable, it does seem sad for students who delve into literature and develop a linguistic tapestry."

No, students doing that just sounds more amusing/annoying than sad.

Bacone College is dead in all but name.

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on April 19, 2024, 07:53:57 AMToday, I've got a letter for a colleague to update/write, and marking to do.

Edit: eep, remembered I have to defend a new course for the department before the faculty senate committee. Sigh. So much for getting stuff done.

Progress acceptable.

$3.69 at Costco and Sam's Club. $3.79 and up at the rest around town.

I have been digging into the music of Jason Molina, limiting myself (for now) to his Songs:Ohia phase and his Magnolia Electric Co. phase. The man released 19 albums in 15 years before massive organ failure from alcoholism in 2013, so it will take a while.

Right now, my absolute favorites is Songs:Ohia's "Didn't It Rain" and Magnolia Electric Co's "Josephine."

Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers passed away, age 80.

Duane Allman once said, "I'm the famous guitarist, but Dickey is the good one." I've always been more enamored of his playing on "Live at the Fillmore" than Allman's, as good as it was.

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Quote from: fishbrains on April 18, 2024, 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.

While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies.  Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.

Do you perhaps mean "Whilst that's understandable, it does seem sad for students who delve into literature and develop a linguistic tapestry."