We had the Poodle, the telephone and the Uncle Wiggley game seen in the background...

Happy birthday to your dear grandmother.

My beloved grandma died last October at age 99. She played me a ragtime tune on the piano the day before she died. I got to spend the last two months of her life with her, for which I will be forever grateful, but I'm still not over it. I miss her terribly.

I'm a college professor.

I do find the business of selling notes from hired notetakers to be distasteful. And the kind of "short cut to learning" mentality of students who participate in things like this is a problem.

But the professor in this case is acting like a total dick.

Perhaps someone should send him a link to MIT's OpenCourseWare program to show him what a more enlightened approach to the distribution of knowledge looks like.

Or perhaps one of his colleagues could show him how to effectively rework his courses each semester, thus not only frustrating the possibility of "buying" a better test score, but perhaps making him a better teacher in the process.

Why are her eyes so blood shot?

@#9. Thanks, Zuzu for the link to the Slought series! Lots of good reading/thinking.