Archive for January, 2010
I’m glad that my “terrible life choice” paid off
Posted in Grad School, Sociology Job Market, TV Time, tagged Assistant Professorship, Grad Students, PhD, The Simpsons on January 30, 2010 |
Mario goes to college
Posted in Education, Gaming the System, Teaching Tricks, The Electronic Age, tagged Blaming the Victim, College Humor, Mario Goes to College, Nintendo U, Video Games, Vulnerability and Frequency of Capture on January 28, 2010 |
People who want to be accountants, chemists, and sociologists aren’t the only ones who go to college. College Humor has dug up the college schedules of video game stars Mario, Link, and Fox McCloud. I am glad that the course on “Woman Studies: Vulnerability and Frequency of Capture” includes an attempt at prevention, though this [...]
The future is here but it isn’t quite as cool as I had hoped
Posted in Moving Pictures, Teaching Tricks, The Electronic Age, tagged 2010, Apple, Back to the Future, E-book, Hill Valley, iPad, Marty McFly on January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Every time I write “2010″ on something I feel like the future has arrived. Maybe I just don’t remember the way I felt ten years go, but I don’t remember any of the previous “new” decades* I’ve witnessed feeling like the future. At any rate, we are now so far into the current century that [...]
Do you come with the car?
Posted in Gaming the System, Gender, Popular Press, The Electronic Age, tagged Advertising, Auto Shows, Booth Babes, CES, Do You Come With The Car, Jalopnik, NAIAS, Sex on January 18, 2010 |
I’ve talked about sex and sales in the past and today I came across the blog of an anonymous auto show model via her post at Jalopnik. Of course, auto shows aren’t the only place where “booth babes” are on display. Other notable industries that employ them include video games and consumer electronics, though given [...]
Operation White Shadow
Posted in Race, The Electronic Age, TV Time, tagged Better Off Ted, HP, Invisible Black People, Life Imitates Art, Operation White Shadow on January 5, 2010 |
Sometimes, life imitates art (the relevant part starts at about 1:08).
Fixing the education system
Posted in Education, tagged Education, IDEA, Jonathan Kozol, Kevin Huffman, Teach for America, Washington Post on January 4, 2010 |
On Saturday, Kevin Huffman, a Washington Post opinion writer, discussed the “keys for success” in our education system, arguing that they go beyond “funding and families” (the former is a topic I have mentioned before). The article opens with the story of two Teach for America educators who started a series of charter schools in [...]
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