Productive Procrastination

[robinturner]

One of the unanticipated problems of the Information Age is that the more technology finds ways to save time, the more people will find ways to use it to waste time. The classic example is e-mail, which drastically cut down the time consumed by delivering inter-office memos that were rarely read in any case, leaving workers with more person-hours to spend on posting jokes to each other and finding the best online source for viagra and prozac.

I am in a similar situation at the moment. I have found out that my boss wants course outlines by Monday. I look at my web page for my new course and find that, although there is an alarming lack of academic content, there is a pretty picture for each week. I am particularly pleased at finding the pumpkin-carving scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to put on the week that contains Halloween. Assignments? Exams? Who needs them?

Comments

[solri.livejournal.com]

I don't see much anything at that link.

Cut and paste problem.

I'm familiar with those maxims, but didn't know the source. I once wrote some additions to the list, but I can't remember where I put them. On eof them was "I read somewhere that accurate citation of sources is very important."

[cf.livejournal.com]

couldnt access link, btw did you know mark bergman/meredith goldschmidt?

[solri.livejournal.com]

I fixed the link - it was broken because of Deepest Sender translating a tilde into the HTML for a tilde.

I've not heard of either of these people. Google turned up nothing for Meredith Goldschmit and over 6,000 disparate results for Mark Bergman.

[cf.livejournal.com]

Meredith taught lit at bilkent and mark ran the it infrastructure about seven years ago. Mark thought he might know you. .. He developed large parts of the cyrptography infrastructre of the old keenals.

[solri.livejournal.com]

I think I remember Meredith - used to dress all in black and taught a course on American Gothic or something like that?

I know some of the computer people here, but I can't think of a Mark.

[cf.livejournal.com]

that sounds about right...mark's her husband. Guy with a beard and a motorcycle. He tells me that he actually ran the lice's system and just helped out fixing the uni's system from time to time.

anyhows...