L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 ... Huh. Small world, innit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Evil Genius Guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Evil Gary Gygax, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Like the GM adversary here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 I think Gygax was worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 It's weird when my coworker talks about the nursery rhymes her dad used to tell her, because her dad was EGG. You mean the guy with the Six Demon Bag? Wind, fire, all that kind of thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 My trick when in the story-reading dad stages was to swap in the word "warthog" into the story with some frequency. It gives you a handle on how sharp -- and how familiar with the story -- your kids are at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Wonder-Warthog was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 Indeed. He seems to be ruled out of the current Mythology Superdraft, sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 The Sixties were out there enough without bringing myths into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 Yeah, because too many truths became myths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 And now, 50 years later, it's happening all over again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 10, 2017 Report Share Posted February 10, 2017 Yeah, though these latter-day ones have more to do with the extirpation of good. The Downfall of Numenor comes to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2017 Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 Listening to George Thorogood's I Drink Alone when you're sitting in your office with a fresh mug of hot Earl Grey ... generates certain incongruities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Any good ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Well, drinking tea by yourself isn't exactly the same as drinking bourbon by yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Bourbon ought not be drunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 'The Great Shame of Our Profession' How the humanities survive on exploitation http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Shame-of-Our/239148/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 It isn't just the humanities, though it's not as obvious since there aren't obvious employers of PhDs in humanities other than academia. The excess of PhD production in just about all fields has been obvious since the 1980s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Cheers for your comments. Since your new position in academia ( ) I thought you might find it of relevance & interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Since my institution doesn't grant PhD's I can delude myself into thinking we're not part of the problem, even though we are, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Ah, fair enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Since my institution doesn't grant PhD's... ...but is a D1 NCAA athletic school nonetheless. (I'm not helping, am I?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Hey, I made by dissent open when they rejoined D1 half a dozen years ago or so. No one pays attention to grunt-level faculty, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Fair enough. Plus, your school doesn't have a handegg team, so how bad could it be, really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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