Course evaluations for the Sermon on the Mount:
The instructor pandered to the lowest common denominator – “meek” and “poor.” As an AP student, I did not feel adequately challenged.
Way too demanding for Gen Ed requirement. Prof expected us all to exceed best students in the class?! LOL. Not even my major!
Best prof ever! Loved it. Changing my major.
(Via Eve Tushnet.)
Spengler’s Universal Law #11: At all times and in all places, the men and women of every culture deserve each other.
Spengler’s Universal Law #14: Stick around long enough, and you turn into a theme park.
Spengler’s Universal Law #17: If you stay in the same place and do the same thing long enough, some empire eventually will overrun you.
(Via AoSHQ.)
Death by ellipsis: annotating Dan Brown.
(Via First Thoughts.)
After all this, if you still feel the urge to experience dimethylcadmium – stay out of my lab – you can make this fine compound quite easily from cadmium chloride, which I’ve no particular urge to handle, either, and methyllithium or methyl Grignard reagent. Purifying it away from the ethereal solvents after that route, though, looks like extremely tedious work, which allows you the rare experience of being bored silly by something that’s trying to kill you.
Advice to ballet company directors: if you’re going to fire a dancer, tell him after the performance.