Some things in life you can’t do for yourself, and getting good photos of yourself is one of them. You will need someone to hover over you and put you in flattering poses and worry about light and take eight million pictures so at least a few turn out okay. Only a professional is going to [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Thiel Foundation Lures Teenagers Away From Classrooms
May 26, 2011The Thiel foundation (created by PayPal founder Peter Thiel) recently announced the inaugural winners of its “Don’t Go To College, Jimmy!” Prizes. No, actually, they’re called the “20 Under 20″, and each fellow will get $100,000 for two years, and be expected to build a business. But they can’t go to college, darn it, even [...]
Getting Paid to Talk
May 18, 2011Recently I saw American: The Bill Hicks Story, which produced as close as I get to a church-like sensation. (For anyone who doesn’t know, Bill Hicks was a comedian.) The animation concept was a little slick for my Gen-X tastes, but seeing a young, unbelievably skinny Hicks performing Woody-Allen-style standup is priceless. As is the [...]
About That Picture, and Work-Appropriate Cleavage
May 14, 2011While the new design is generally going over well, several people have said they missed the original picture, which was me burning my PhD in a bikini, with one even going so far as to say it really captured my persona. Well, in the first place, y’all don’t know me. It was getting a little [...]
Bossypants, Management, and Fourth Wave Feminism
May 11, 2011Seeing Tina Fey’s month-long bestseller reign made me an optimist for I think a whole millisecond maybe. I loved it, obviously, and I am totally serious when I say that if I ever teach a class in Management (wouldn’t that be fun?) this will be the only textbook we will use. It’s my favorite kind [...]
Some ‘Splainin To Do
May 7, 2011I’m still tweaking format stuff, but I’m not fighting with domain transfers and DNS servers so I thought I’d explain more about what happened during the hiatus. In the first place, I decided the blog had become too education-y. Not that I’ve ever needed much of an excuse to speak my mind about fools trying [...]
Back
May 4, 2011Yes, I’m back. The most interesting things I did in the last few weeks: Went on an actual vacation and severely whanged my toe, so there was a lot of comical hobbling on the beach. Read tons, including Tina Fey’s Bossypants which everybody should read because it’s so awesome. It will probably get its own [...]