| Knitting people! |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|01:24 pm] |
Now that I live in a cold place, I find I am in need of:
1. Winter hat
2. Scarf
If someone were to volunteer to create such things for me, I could return the favor in COLD HARD CASH (or possibly check or paypal). |
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| The plan |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|09:21 am] |
I have five years to acquire the following things:
1) Stockings
2) Knee-length pants
3) Fancy coat
4) Lacy neckwear
5) High heeled shoes with large buckles
6) Giant curly wig
Because the day after I officially get tenure, I'm teaching all of my classes 1600s-style. |
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| The coming-of-age rituals among the North American professor tribe |
[Oct. 13th, 2009|05:16 pm] |
me: good thing I went to that "how to apply for a grant" workshop this morning, because apparently the Joint Fire Science Program is soliciting proposals for social science of fire projects and it's due Nov. 20
Christina: OOOh
apply apply
me: I could get my first grown-up grant
Christina: heh
Stenny, you're a man now.
me: :^P
I am posting this to LJ
Christina: That you are a man? That you may bust your grant cherry? |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 17th, 2009|12:06 pm] |
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Yesterday as I was walking out of my building, a car drove by with some students in it. They rolled down the passenger side window and yelled "nerd!" They drove off before I could say "Why yes -- I'm a professor. It's my job to be a nerd. How many thousand dollars a year are they paying you to be cool?" |
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| The 79 |
[Sep. 16th, 2009|07:30 pm] |
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Some people get tattoos to commemorate important times in their lives. I've decided I'm going to honor my past by adopting dialectical quirks. So I'll remember growing up in western PA by pronouncing "creek" as "crick," and my trips to Australia by saying "no worries" and "good onya," and my time in Arizona by putting "the" in front of numbered highways. So now I have to leave because there's been really bad construction delays on the 79 -- I might try avoiding it by taking the 15. |
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| More detailed trip plan |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
Sat, July 25
Casa Grande, AZ to Flagstaff, AZ
Drive time: 3:30
Sun, July 26
Flagstaff, AZ to Salt Lake City, UT (via Zion National Park)
Drive time: 9:30
Mon, July 27
Salt Lake City, UT to Denver, CO (via Fort Collins, CO)
Drive time: 7:45
Tues, July 28
Denver, CO to Waterloo, IA
Drive time: 11:30
Wed, July 29
Waterloo, IA to Indianapolis, IN (via Chicago)
Drive time: 7:30
Thurs, July 30
Indianapolis, IN to Bellevue, PA (via Dayton, OH)
Drive time: 7:00 |
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| marketing backfires |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|11:33 am] |
Yesterday at Walgreens I bought some pomegranate juice that advertised that it was:
* Gluten-free
* Lactose-free
* Low sodium
* Vegan
I'm a little disturbed by the implication that there might be non-vegan gluten-filled juice out there. |
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| Things that make me happy |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|07:01 pm] |
1. Putting a can of chickpeas (drained), 6 sun-dried tomatoes, and a few tablespoons of olive oil in a food processor and processing it coarsely, then spreading it on toasted rye or multi-grain bread.
2. My students doing a good job with the lesson on economic development this morning. They were role-playing countries soliciting funds to do development projects, and between them they proposed a cross-section of the major types of development projects (enhancing tourism infrastructure, funding a pro-democracy group to overthrow the junta, draining swamps for agriculture, a microcredit bank, and building schools), which in turn let us talk about the pros and cons of them. |
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| What do you do with a broken computer |
[Mar. 14th, 2009|11:43 am] |
... ear-lie in the morning?
Here's the deal: A couple weeks ago my laptop ("Isaac") stopped recognizing its hard drive most of the time (hence my limited presence online). I bought a new one (named "Jacob" as part of my Step-Genealogy of Jesus Computer Naming Convention), which arrived last night. So now I have to figure out what to do with Isaac. He's got a variety of problems -- he only recognizes the hard drive about 10% of the times I start him up (but when he does recognize it, it runs fine), after 5 minutes on battery power he suddenly shuts off (no shuts down, but total-loss-of-power "click"), and when you close the lid and unplug the cord it's a 50-50 gamble whether he'll go into hibernation or run out the battery and shut off. So on the one hand he doesn't run nearly well enough for me to sell him or give him away to charity (like I did with Abraham, my old desktop). On the other hand, it's not like he's completely destroyed and fit only to recycle the plastic and metal in him.
Suggestions? |
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| 25 "random" things about me |
[Jan. 31st, 2009|02:24 am] |
You know the drill with this meme.
1. I am pedantic about the statistical meaning of the word "random."
2. I may regret doing this meme while in a bad mood.
3. I waffled until the last minute about voting for Obama, because I didn't think he was liberal enough.
4. It takes me at least an hour to fall asleep at night, and I can't nap -- on the few occasions I've managed to actually fall asleep when trying to nap, I've woken up feeling worse than when I went to sleep.
5. I have all the psychological stress of feeling incredibly busy, but with no accomplishments to show for it.
6. I was more excited than I ought to be when I discovered they let adjuncts use Interlibrary Loan at Pima.
7. I have a strict personal rule against being Facebook friends with anyone who is or could reasonbly become my student.
8. Jane Addams is my current hero.
9. If I could do it over again, I would do my dissertation on a GIS-based analysis of the impact of climate change on water resources and/or food security in the developing world, because that's about the only kind of background any geography departments appear to be hiring.
10. I'm an awfully whiny person considering that, objectively speaking, my life is better than 99% of the humans who have ever lived.
11. Setting aside all the ethical considerations, I think on a purely taste basis, giving up meat was worth it if that's what was necessary to get me to try tempeh.
12. I have not been more than an hour and a half drive away from my house in over a year.
13. I don't drink alcohol, coffee, tea, or caffeinated soda. I would make a great Mormon, except for all the theology stuff.
14. The first song I remember hearing and liking on mainstream radio was Arrested Development's "Mr. Wendal."
15. I hope that when future archaeologists are studying our civilization, the vagaries of time will have mostly preserved lolcats.
16. My viking icon originally represented one of the Scarlet editors who we didn't have a picture of, but I decided I liked the drawing and adopted it for myself.
17. I've designed the front page of the Dispatch about 25 times so far, and I haven't been happy with any of them the following morning.
18. I choose which football team to root for by looking at which one has cooler designs on their helmets.
19. I still hesitate to talk about "rooting" for a team even in a strictly American context because I know it has a dirty meaning in Australia.
20. I learned to play French horn on a "single horn," and I still refuse to use the thumb key on a "double horn."
21. I don't think any of the things I've accomplished so far are sufficient to make my presence a net positive for the world.
22. I have a paranoia about my apartment catching on fire while I'm gone, so before I leave I have to check and re-check that the oven is off and all electronic devices are either unplugged (if they have one of those adapter bricks that gets hot) or securely plugged in.
23. The clothes I usually wear to teach (khakis, light blue button-down shirt, navy jacket) has been described as my "Republican outfit" -- which makes sense because it is what my dad always wears, and he's never voted for a Democrat for any office higher than mayor.
24. Aunque vivo en el sur de Arizona, estoy olviendo espanol en vez de aprenderlo. (?Subjuntivo? ?Que es el subjuntivo?)
25. There are actually a relatively manageable number of mutha 'uckas 'uckin with my shi'. |
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| I do not love, nor was I arrested |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|08:54 am] |
Directions: Google your first name and then each of these verbs. Use the first result. Hilarity ensues.
Stentor needs... both to stop and to reverse the ciliary beating after the onset of the light
Stentor looks... like a trumpet
Stentor says... it understands that physicians historically have dealt with hard-to-disseminate film images
Stentor wants... ISPs to register with their local phone companies and to pay fees that subsidize local phone service
Stentor hates... [no results]
Stentor asks... : "Is it too much to ask you to hold off on the overwrought mea- culpa-cum-apologia until you can accurately diagnose the culpa?"
Stentor likes... 102398_thumb_24_z 00
Stentor eats... some kinds of food with more readiness than other kinds
Stentor wears... the bracer
Stentor was arrested... [no results]
Stentor loves... [no results] |
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| Continuing the self-referential tradition |
[Jan. 1st, 2009|07:09 pm] |
January: that meme where you list the title of the first post from each month
February: Agricultural economics, Platonism, and magic elixirs
March: Like a million times, Captain Cook!
April: (no subject), first real title 12 stories high, made of radiation
May: (no subject), first real title stimulating the graphic design industry
June: This is my new favorite thing
July: Presidential Dream 3
August: This is how much of a dork I am
September: (no subject), first real title Boom
October: Wikipedia, repository of all human knowledge
November: Yo voté hoy.
December: meme, done at work |
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| meme, done at work |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|07:29 pm] |
1.] grab the nearest book.
2.] open the book to page 23.
3.] find the fifth sentence.
4.] post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5.] don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! i know you were thinking about it! just pick up whatever is closest.
Sports coaches are so deified in the United States, however, that many publications override this policy, and you get the obviously faulty football Coach Steve Spurrier. A sensible compromise on coach would capitalize it when unadorned but lowercase it when it's attached to a modifier: Coach Steve Spurrier, football coach Steve Spurrier.
The Washington Post stylebook offers that sort of ruling on professor, which it not only capitalizes but also abbreviates as a title: Prof. Pierre LeGrand of Georgetown University; Georgetown University French professor Pierre LeGrand; former American University chemistry professor George Brown.
(from Bill Walsh's The Elephants of Style) |
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| Tempseifu -- the vegan answer to Turducken |
[Nov. 27th, 2008|06:19 pm] |
The tubes tell me that a few people have made a vegan version of turducken -- tofurky stuffed with mock duck stuffed with fake chicken. But I decided I'd make the vegan answer to turducken -- something that parallels the idea of thing-inside-thing-inside-thing, but without trying to imitate the specific taste outcome of the meat version. So I am pioneering "tempseifu," tofu stuffed with seitan stuffed with tempeh.
( Here be many pictures ) |
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| Performance art idea |
[Nov. 20th, 2008|11:56 pm] |
1. Write a short poem, say 10 lines.
2. Find 9 helpers, all registered to vote in your county.
3. Pick a race where your votes don't matter -- say, a judge running uncontested.
4. Have each person cast a write-in vote for a different line of the poem (numbered).
5. Make sure the county or a local newspaper posts the election results, including all write-ins. |
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| It's the Three Things meme! |
[Nov. 19th, 2008|11:00 am] |
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Stentor
2. Stenny
3. Stanley? Spencer? Stanford? I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. Acsumama
2. EemeetMeeker
3. Stentor
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. No known food allergies
2. Made of physical/corporeal substance, not purely spirit/mind (sorry, Gnostics)
3. Able to detect nasty chemical in cilantro
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. Elbows are very dry right now
2. Bright light makes me sneeze
3. Moderately crooked teeth
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Swedish
2. British
3. Bad president (Jackson, Pierce, and Bush Jr.)
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. Heights
2. Aliens
3. Butterflies
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Shower
2. Cereal
3. Car (sadly)
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING NOW:
1. Maroon T-shirt
2. Khaki pants
3. Wedding ring
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1. Värttinä
2. Rodrigo y Gabriela
3. They Might Be Giants
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (RIGHT NOW):
1. Beds are Burning (Midnight Oil)
2. Literal version of Take On Me (A Ha/Dusto McNeato)
3. George Washington (Brad Neely)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. B.F. Skinner jokes
2. T-rex arms
3. Reciprocity
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
1. When my little sister asked for cinnamon toast, I put cinnamon on my foot and said "here's your cinnamon toes!"
2. When I ordered a Lore Brand mug, Lore sent me a second one free
3. I once tried to light some flowers on fire at church
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. By empirical induction from the people I have actually been in a relationship with, brown hair
2. Glasses
3. Not a Pod Person
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Cooking
2. Complaining
3. Writing music
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Get rid of this headache
2. Get a job back east
3. Pee
THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING/YOU’VE CONSIDERED:
1. Layout guy
2. Professor
3. Chef at a vegan Swedish-Indian fusion restaurant
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. Australia
2. Other parts of Australia
3. Australia is a very big country, you know
THREE NAMES YOU LIKE:
1. Kinslaughterer
2. Fleshharrower
3. Satansfist
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Learn German well enough to read academic articles
2. Write a novel for a real publisher
3. Convince waitstaff that just because I'm the man doesn't necessarily mean I'm paying
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL:
1. The only alchohol I like is fruity drinks where you can't taste the alcohol
2. I do most of the cooking and cleaning
3. I can't grow a moustache (beard yes, moustache no)
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1. I can't remember anniversaries, birthdays (including my own), and major holidays
2. If you tell me your problems, I'll try to fix them
3. Um ... penis?
THREE PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW:
1. B.F. Skinner
2. Mary Douglas
3. Thelonious Monk |
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| MEME |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|03:13 pm] |
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If you saw me in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for? |
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| Yo voté hoy. |
[Nov. 4th, 2008|08:32 am] |
I voted. Straight-ticket Democrat (although AZ doesn't have an official "straight ticket" option). Up until the last minute I was considering voting for McKinney for president and Maupin for US House, since the outcomes of the races between the major parties seemed like foregone conclusions. Then I decided that 1) there's a small chance AZ may give McCain the John Howard treatment, and I'd want to be part of that, 2) I want to be able to gloat to my sister (a big Bush fan who never let me forget that Gore and Kerry lost), and 3) there haven't been any actual polls of CD-01, so I can't be *certain* that Kirkpatrick will win. I was more concerned about the sheriff race, the ridiculous school district splitting-and-reunification plan pushed by the state, and the anti-marriage amendment.
There was practically no line at all, and no funny business (that I could see -- who knows what happens when they feed the ballot into the scantron thing). |
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