Keeping it together

Warning: Tech/Student/Academic geek post ahead. Fiber folks may want to take a pass.
I had taken a stab at David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system a few years ago. I did the big brain dump, the file purge, the whole nine yards. Then I drifted. The system went by the wayside and [...]

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Random Bullets of Baby Steps Forward

I feel better today than I have in the past two weeks – whoo hoo!  I think the head cold of doom may be on its way out.
I have 5 finalized questions for qualifying exams. The date has moved to 2/5 so posting may become more sporadic as I work or more frequent as [...]

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wiki-cool

I didn’t want this to get lost in the obscureness that is the previous post so it gets a post of it’s own. I found a cool new toy yesterday: wikidot.com  I know there are a lot of wiki hosting sites out there but this one is free – even for private wikis, easy to [...]

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Grad Student Humor and etc.

I found this over on Dancing Barefoot and had to link it here. It’s an article in the Onion from last week: Heroic Computer Dies to Save World from Master’s Thesis
Also, I don’t know why I feel the need to share this but I feel like such a bad fish-mommy. I [...]

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If you have ever taught composition

or written a paper or seen a movie you have to go read this. I nearly spewed coffee out my nose. It is a compare/contrast essay in the style of a freshman composition student on the movies Curious George and Brokeback Mountain. Dean Dad, you so rock!

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