Discourse Chronicle

Your travel plans have been approved by the Director of Graduate Studies in the amount of expenses up to $400 for your trip to Eau Claire, WI. Since we cannot fund all of your expenses, please apply to the Glasscock Center, and any other appropriate entity, for additional funding. [I am presenting a new Superman […]

category: Acceptances, Life    

A judge at the High Court in London said that while Brown may have copied bits of the 1982 book “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail”, that did not amount to a breach of copyright. “Even if the central themes were copied, they are too general or of too low a level of abstraction […]

category: Popular Culture    

I nominated you for an EGSA position. Specifically, I thought you’d be great as a Grad Student Council Rep, which means you’d go to two monthly interdisciplinary grad student meetings and report back to EGSA. What do you think? Would you like to accept the nomination? [Meghan Gilbert, a colleague of mine, nominated me. EGSA […]

category: Life    

The trial version of Boot Camp released by Apple only lets owners use one operating system at a time. Switching from one to the other is, currently, a process that takes a while to complete. Many expect that once the dual start-up software is built in to the next version of OS X, expected in […]

category: Popular Culture, Technology    

Any time you think of a simple animation you don’t assume that it would take too long to make. For the bigger blockbusters we can expect a teaser trailer up to a year in an advance. For The Simpsons Movie, Fox tells us that not only we have to wait till 2007 for the film’s […]

category: Popular Culture, Television