Birth of a Pedagogue

June 30, 2008 in The Way It Were

As a recent college graduate, this post from Amanda via the Big Blog Swap hit pretty close to home.
You’re graduating in December? What are you planning to do after that?
I hate this question.
It’s up there with “Where are you going to college?” and “What are you planning on majoring in?” The problem is that adults [...]

Thanks Be to Shoddy Curricula

June 29, 2008 in The Way It Were
Tags: advertising, at&t, be, blog, cingular, curricula, curriculum, department, emeritus, Fresno, internet, lose, marketing, narrative, program, router, shoddy, starbucks, state, story, t-mobile, tetris, thanks

Starbucks’ Internet was being uncooperative yesterday. I wasn’t about to go home, yet, what with two free hours of Internet just outside my grasp. I decided to wait it out and try again later.
I turned on my Tetris. I lost. Points: 178,364.
Eventually I figured out the problem: This specific Starbucks’ router still redirects the user [...]

Cost of Free Internet

June 28, 2008 in The Way It Were
Tags: internet, up, water, straight, no, free, starbucks, requirements, limitation, restriction, arbitrary, artificial, roommate, venti, corporation, iceless, ice, behave

Thanks to the futzing of a roommate, I don’t have Internet, and I probably won’t until after Thursday. I’ll still keep up with daily posts, in part because of a national chain that tries way too hard to be trendy. In short: Thank you, Starbucks.
Even though your employees know absolutely nothing helpful about troubleshooting your [...]