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March | 2010 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. Arthur is an aardvark, albeit evolving. March 9, 2010, 5:53 am. Filed under: Cheap Silliness. At dinner last night, conversation turned to children’s cartoons that are animals (this was after a few glasses of wine). 8220;What is Arthur? 8221; someone asked. I answered unequivocally: “an aardvark.”. Apparently, I don’t have a lot of street cred on the topic of cartoon animals. 8220;No, where’s his nose? He’s a mouse or something,” said one. Today: They now re-do the covers...
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January | 2011 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. January 30, 2011, 8:29 am. Task 1: Figure out how the heck to build a climbing wall. Cut off my fingers. Task 3: Build it. Ok, this is a bunch of little jobs. Phen helped with each and every one of them except carving the holds, but he’ll do that soon. B) Plywood, holes, and t-nuts. Finally, I made about forty hand holds out of wood. I used scrap wood and a log I picked up in the woods on campus (I felt like the log lady. Jax’s MLK Essay. January 14, 2011, 5:43 pm. Someti...
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August | 2009 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. Like a bad roommate and a developing country. August 29, 2009, 10:00 pm. This doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking of what to write. It just means I’ve forgotten most of what I would have written. But I have held on to two ideas. Feel free to add to both. 1 Having a newborn is like having a bad roommate in college because he…. 8230;is awake at 2am but naps at 2pm. 8230;has an obsessive attraction to women’s breasts. 8230;could care less if he’s had a bath. 8230;everyone l...
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February | 2010 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. Olympic fever (or why curling is a sport). February 22, 2010, 6:07 pm. During late nights and a few early mornings, I’ve also been watching curling. I know it’s perfect joke material, but I’m digging it. I’m sure he’d accept a friendly amendment to add snowboard cross and ski cross to the list). His comment is a salvo in the eternal debate over “what is a sport? Here’s my list of the necessary conditions of a sport:. 2 You wear a uniform, not a costume. Bye-bye ice skatin...
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December | 2010 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. December 21, 2010, 9:59 am. Phen’s been wanting to do this for months. And we want it done by next month in time for his birthday. It’s a practice climbing wall. This cannot end well. Here are the plans we’re working on. There’s no way it will turn out like this, but he doesn’t know that yet. Btw, the pics were made using google sketchup. Free and pretty cool (if “cool” meant “geeky”). Justin’s Snapshots (Video). December 19, 2010, 7:58 pm. Jax’s Santa Letter. I want pois...
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June | 2011 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. Why I Am a (Christian) Feminist. June 16, 2011, 1:06 am. Found a quote from this poem. Couldn’t find it online except in google books, so I’m posting it. Why Am I a Feminist? By Juanita Wright Potter, 1985. Why am I a feminist? Because I am a woman. And because I enjoy being a woman. As a result of the hard work of feminists before me. Feminists of the past enabled me. To get a good education,. To have a voice in the assembly halls of my community,. My state, my nation,.
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September | 2009 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. September 28, 2009, 9:02 am. Life is still hectic with the baby (he’s doing great) and the start of the semester. To make things busier, I’ve started a research project with some grad schools that’s involved another blog. And writing a weekly summary column for CT. Just a little bit at a time, though. Here are two questions that Jackson asked me today. If you have any age appropriate quick answers, let me know. If you can answer them for real, even better.
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February | 2011 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. Who should win the grammys (none of whom will actually win). February 14, 2011, 4:15 am. The Grammys is tonight, and I’ll end up watching just so I can make snarky comments about how dumb it is. I may skip it and just watch the performance by Bob Dylan and Mumford and Sons on youtube later. All that being said, here is how I would have voted. This isn’t who I think will win, but who I think should win. Record Of The Year. Album of the Year. Song of the Year. Not that I...
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July | 2009 | Asa's Mountain
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My Research, Teaching, Etc Blog. The one thing i don’t like about facebook. July 31, 2009, 5:35 pm. July 19, 2009, 9:03 pm. I’ve got two unimportant and unrelated questions. They’re not questions you can answer using wikipedia, so I’m lost. If you’ve got an answer, let me know. What do the frogs represent? Slimy lowlifes whose only redeeming quality is hating Michigan Notre Dame, perhaps? But he’s really more of a comedy act. Is there geek music? July 11, 2009, 2:48 am. Dear Mr. President,. I want to tel...
