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It's really quite easy. 17 Jan 2012 | 07:00 am
If you are retired, you do not get to serve on search committees. If you know you are leaving the university, you do not get to serve on search committees. If you are retired or leaving the universi...
In which everyone's time is wasted. 21 Nov 2011 | 02:35 pm
The Committee on Divine Retribution meets for one of only two reasons. 1) A student with borderline personality disorder who has cheated at nearly everything she has ever attempted believes she can s...
Rest in peace, William. 2 Nov 2011 | 12:10 pm
Today I learned a friend has gone. How brief the distance between life and death! In fact there is none. Life is but death's vestibule, and our pilgrimage on earth is but a journey to the grave. The ...
It's all over. 20 Oct 2011 | 10:59 am
Don't panic, but my mother is now on Facebook. This means that the internet as we know it has only a few more weeks before complete collapse. Few of us will survive this apocalypse, but those of us wh...
The end of a bad day. 19 Oct 2011 | 01:25 pm
Tuesdays are tough here at the Angry Castle. The Angry Kid gets up at 6:30 a.m. and doesn't stop until 8:00 p.m. because of gymnastics and homework. Because she is unwilling to not do her homework, an...
Pencils can be used as deadly weapons. 16 Sep 2011 | 12:28 pm
The collateral damage of the number of papers I have pushed out the door this year includes the amount of time I must now devote to responding to questions from copy editors. My 120 page manuscript fo...
Quiz time! 14 Sep 2011 | 12:34 pm
One of these species does not live under my deck. A virtual cookie for the first person to guess correctly! Mice Raccoons Skunks Groundhogs
On the fine art of writing a scientific paper: a secret message to my graduate students. 10 Sep 2011 | 11:48 am
A scientific paper has to be written in such a way that people will read it. The problem is that very few people are going to want to read it. There is no white-coated scientist who spends her spare m...
Someone hasn't thought this through. 7 Sep 2011 | 12:57 pm
I have received a missive from some LSU official informing me that, as a holder of LSU football season tickets, I am considered an athletic booster. One of the many things I am forbidden to do as an a...
I used to hang out in a biker bar. Does that count? 3 Sep 2011 | 01:34 pm
see more The Daily What I'm not condoning anything this guy has alleged to have done, but it's nice to know that at least at one time there existed at least one tenured professor somewhere who belong...
