Why do you ask a question for which you know the answer?
Why do you ask a question for which you know the answer?
Soccer is fun.
“Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.” -Loki, from Kevin Smith's Dogma.
Just sayin’.
That’s my boy, right-wing striker for HAEA, last Saturday on the pitch. He’s getting pretty good, if I do say so myself.
My wife is an Internet celebrity! (well, in State College, at least)
Penn State ‘Catch-22’ read-a-thon aims to spotlight school’s academics:
Reed and comparative literature professor Eric Hayot thought of the read-a-thon after NCAA’s sanctions against Penn State and its football program. The university was punished after four administrators were accused of enabling convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky.Upset that the “university had been reduced to football” by national reports, they decided to stage a public event highlighting Penn State’s academic prowess, Hayot said.“Look, this is a place where literature gets written,” he said. “This is a place where literature is discussed.”
More than football folks.
…and my wife got to be a part of this thing! How cool is that?
[photo: Christopher Weddle/Centre Daily Times]
Categories:
Higher Education,
Penn State,
The Wife
When the administrative assistant who has been working in your office for 22 years (and at the University for a grand total of 37 years!) decides that she is retiring at the end of the month.
Okay, so it’s not this kind of fear, but in my work environment it’s still pretty bad.
Yikes.
Needless to say, I wish her well in her retirement. But holy hell – we are going to be hard-pressed to find someone to fill her shoes.
Categories:
Penn State,
Work
Daddy want.
I watched several live-blogs of Apple’s roll-out of the iPhone 5 yesterday. It must be pretty cool to work for a company that can get the Foo Fighters to play a few songs during a new product demo.
I have the iPhone 4, and I lurrrrrve it. The 5 looks great too, but I won’t be upgrading until my 4 dies.
So, if you see me on Curtin Road trying to place my phone under the wheels of a CATA bus, you’ll know why…
[via Mashable]
Awesome double rainbow, right?
I snapped this just as we got home from work the other night. We had just driven through a strange downpour – whilst the sun was shining. Sure enough, when we reached the driveway and got out of the car, we saw this beautiful rainbow.
Postscript: no filters have been added to this picture.
Categories:
Nature,
Photography
As an Admissions Dude, I’d be remiss if I didn’t highlight this great piece of admissions travel propaganda.
Here we have the traveling counselors from the Juniata College admissions crüe in something of a 1970s, “Mod Squad”-esque pictorial. The photos were all taken by 2012 Juniata graduate Patrick McCloskey.
The image is found at the Juniata College Admission Facebook page – where they (smartly) link to their travel schedule for the fall season.
I find myself wishing that my admissions office looked this cool…
Categories:
Admissions,
Higher Education,
Recruiting,
Work
Nerd in training.
This is a shot of the bathtub where my kids bathe. We got the kids some bathroom crayons, to write/draw on the tub walls.
As you can see, my son will be voting for Harry Potter in the presidential election this November.
I particularly like the “Gryfindore” lion.
Categories:
Harry Potter,
Nerdalert,
Politics