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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #660 on: March 28, 2023, 09:50:07 AM »
If you had a student with the same name as the most famous football coach of all time, would you want to ask him if his parents chose his name deliberately?
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #661 on: March 28, 2023, 10:25:23 AM »
You have a student named Knute Rockne?
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #662 on: March 28, 2023, 11:23:55 AM »
Quote from: FishProf on March 28, 2023, 10:25:23 AM
You have a student named Knute Rockne?

LOL. I wish.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #663 on: March 31, 2023, 08:38:36 AM »
New diversity survey for a college asks if respondents have encountered people at the school of a gender different from their own.

I'm wondering if this is a carefully formulated survey.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #664 on: March 31, 2023, 09:35:37 AM »
Quote from: downer on March 31, 2023, 08:38:36 AM
New diversity survey for a college asks if respondents have encountered people at the school of a gender different from their own.

I'm wondering if this is a carefully formulated survey.

Do you teach at an all-girls' college?

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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #665 on: March 31, 2023, 09:43:59 AM »
No. Neither all-boys, nor all-"other-gender." Not a monastery or nunnery either. Not a jail.

They do have data on the proportion of female to male already about their own college, which they could look up.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #666 on: April 19, 2023, 10:15:17 AM »
We have most of our book orders shipped to the library by FedEx or UPS.  Since the couriers come by here regularly anyway, some of our staff members have personal orders shipped to this address as well.  I guess it keeps them from having to worry about porch pirates.  Anyway, one of them has had a lawn mower and pieces for her and her husband's pickup truck shipped here.  It reminds me a bit of Johnny Cash's song "One Piece at a Time."
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #667 on: April 22, 2023, 11:21:35 AM »
I'm reading and posting here while waiting for some files to load in Canvas.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #668 on: May 08, 2023, 07:26:38 AM »
While setting out donated magazines on the free table, I noticed an old issue of Smithsonian with a cover feature entitled "Surprising Sicily."  I understand that Sicily isn't that hard to surprise, if you approach it quietly from behind.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #669 on: May 08, 2023, 07:45:57 AM »
Canvas word count says a paper has 1795 words. Copying and pasting the paper into a word counter says it has 1950 words.
It would be helpful if Canvas made more explicit what it is counting.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #670 on: May 19, 2023, 10:15:57 AM »
Note to self--don't wear that Prague T-shirt you got from traveling family awhile back to the local Asian restaurant.  They've posted a sign saying that they don't accept checks.
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Re: Random Thoughts Anew
« Reply #671 on: May 20, 2023, 08:58:50 AM »
Quote from: apl68 on May 19, 2023, 10:15:57 AM
Note to self--don't wear that Prague T-shirt you got from traveling family awhile back to the local Asian restaurant.  They've posted a sign saying that they don't accept checks.
Ugh!!!
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