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For this 2012 Summer Edition of Monday Music, I thought we could have some fun. I’ll post some selections and y’all tell me what they have in common. You’ll have more (and better) opportunities to guess right as the weeks progress. If the answer comes forward, then pat yourself on the back, and I’ll be done. Perhaps I’ll slip a gift in your mailbox when I return in the Fall. The only rule is that you be exact with your guess. None of this coulda, woulda, shoulda answers. Be direct and to the point to earn your place in the history of The Lounge contests.
As promised, Monday Music comes to you this week on Tuesday, out of respect for yesterday’s holiday. Back to a regular schedule next week and thereafter. You now have a couple of clues. Take a guess and I’ll let ya know if you’re hot or cold, ‘kay?
Today is about remembering what this day of rest is all about. Perhaps making a visit to a cemetery or pausing for a moment to remember a fallen soldier. Then, it’s about enjoying it with family/friends.
I was looking for a good link to commemorate the occasion when I came upon this one. From the online article:
Most people don’t know that when a soldier is discharged on disability it often destroys their family. Their pay is reduced to a fraction of what it was, while their cost of living skyrockets without access to housing, commissaries and other benefits of life on a military base.
Read it all and share your comments. Then get out there and enjoy the day!
If you have any wonderful stories to share, I’m all eyes.
Monday Music takes a break today (the second clue comes your way tomorrow).
For this Summer Edition of Monday Music, I thought we could have some fun. I’ll post some selections and y’all tell me what they have in common. Not sure you can get it after just one posting, but you’ll have more (and better) opportunities to guess right as the weeks progress. If the answer comes forward, then pat yourself on the back, and I’ll be done. Perhaps I’ll slip a gift in your mailbox when I return in the Fall. The only rule is that you be exact with your guess. None of this coulda, woulda, shoulda answers. Be direct and to the point to earn your place in the history of The Lounge contests.
What I am about to share with you may seem goofy, silly, cheesy, or (you give it a name). It’s a game we, the members of Camp Realist, have played for some time now. I’m not sure how it got started (or why, for that matter), but it evolved to this, fundamentally speaking:
You take a person’s name and then you ask a silly question wherein the answer rhymes with said person’s name. Today’s name is DAVE. (David is acceptable. PhiloDave if you’re up for the challenge!) It goes like this:
Silly question – What did faculty say about Dave at the Banquet today?
Rhyming answer – He was… the RAVE!
Ok, one more example.
Silly question – What did the student who was submitting a late assignment for Dave‘s class tell his secretary?
Rhyming answer – I CRAVEDave!
See, the question can be silly; and at Camp Realist they become more irrational as the game goes on. Same for the answers. Bonus points of you can come up with a variation that meets the fundamental rules. Literal creativity or Nonsense at it’s finest. Play first, then you be the judge.
So, in honor of Dave (or any other alias he goes by these days) gettin’ that nice big recognition today at the Union Banquet, go ahead and play if you’d like. Or stop by tomorrow if today’s festivities will produce better material.
With consent from blogmaster PhiloDave, this is a special edition of Website Wednesday that will appear from time to time over the course of the semester. The focus will be on our [somewhat] newly designed [and Audrey-modified] HWC website, and the CCC website, in an effort to give the folks at District some feedback on what we believe to be working or not working with the sites.
Cheese Whiz! I forgot to post this last week at the regularly scheduled time (and Dave thought he was behind schedule).
Alrighty then, better late than later.
Feel free to give your two-cents on things you’d like to see stay or go away on our official college and district sites OR…, OR…
Got any outstanding issues with the migration to Microsoft email accounts? Is it workin’ for ya? Did any peep tune into the online training session? Was it helpful?
I’ve found some pros (I can actually use Outlook now-the Calendar is nice. Ditto with the Tasks.) and cons (browsing to Microsoft Ofice 365 is a two-step process – first you go to mail.ccc.edu, then you are redirected to the CCC version of the Office 365 sign-in – UGH! GIVE. ME. A. BREAK!).
What say you peeps? What’s the good, or the bad (as in terrible or awesome-spin it any way you want), or the ugly?
Per Don’s email, which I’ll include below, I am very excited to know that the cat is finally out of the hat!
Congratulations PhiloDave on being this year’s HWC Distinguished Professor!
It is a well deserved honor (and IMHO, one that you should have received a couple of years ago).
Ok kids, feel free to leave your kind words, or heck, go ahead and roast the man. It don’t matter.
Perhaps you just want to give him a pat on the back the next time you see him. That’ll be fine too!
In any case, here’s to a professor that epitomizes the words college and community.
One last thing: Since we will not hear from Dave at this year’s graduation (bwah, bwah, bwah), I’m suggesting that he be the main speaker at the Fall State of the College get-together. I can think of no better way of making this more personal.
Ok, here’s Don’s email (he’s much more eloquent than this peep):
To the Harold Washington College Community,
Please join me in congratulating this year’s Distinguished Professor, David W. Richardson.
Professor Richardson is an Assistant Professor who teaches a wide range of general education philosophy and humanities courses that emphasize active learning and facilitating student engagement with primary philosophical and literary texts.
Professor Richardson serves as an active member of the Harold Washington College community. He has served for the last two and a half years on Faculty Council, including one as Secretary and one and a half as Vice President. In his role as Secretary, he created The Harold Lounge, a blog site that he has since continued to administer. Other activities at the college have included work with the Women’s Studies Committee, including a year as Secretary, the Assessment Committee, and many other college wide and departmental initiatives, including chairing Humanifest-OH!, the Humanities Department’s annual Festival of the Arts from 2006 to 2008 and again in 2010. He was named Employee of the Month in February of 2009.
Mr. Richardson’s teaching career began with a TV course in 1997. Three years later, he was hired as an adjunct at Columbia and Harold Washington Colleges and thereby convinced to quit his full-time job as a whiskey slinger on Division Street and commit himself to the possibility of a teaching career. Hired to the full-time faculty at Harold Washington for fall 2003, he was named department chair a year later, where he served for four years, earning tenure in 2006.
Having personally observed Professor Richardson in the classroom, I can attest to his skill at engaging students and pushing them outside of their comfort zone to wrestle with challenging texts and concepts. The Harold Washington Community is enriched by Professor Richardson’s excellence as a faculty member.
With consent from blogmaster PhiloDave, this is a special edition of Website Wednesday that will appear from time to time over the course of the semester. The focus will be on our [somewhat] newly designed [and Audrey-modified] HWC website, and the CCC website, in an effort to give the folks at District some feedback on what we believe to be working or not working with the sites.
OK, so it’s the last week of the month and that means it’s time for another round of feedback. Honorary Peep, Audrey, has probably been waiting all month for this day! Right, Audrey?
Give ‘er what you gots! She has been a regular contributor. Thus, the honorary title.
Are the revisions on the website workin’ for ya? Findin’ what ya need and where ya need it? Wanna see some last minute changes before Spring Break?
Speak up now before the rush of questions from students for Summer and Fall registration leave you wishin’ you had said somethin’ sooner.
I told ya I’d have updates whenever possible. The standings as of 10:39pm today:
Rank
Team Name
Score
Correct
Best Score
Best Correct
Champion
1
Michael Russell
46
34
170
48
North Carolina (141)
2
Chris Sabino
42
32
154
44
Ohio St. (123)
2
Don Laackman
42
32
154
44
Kentucky (135)
2
Kamran Swanson
42
32
142
42
Kansas (160)
5
David Richardson
38
28
94
37
Missouri (137)
6
Jivin Jenny
35
27
143
38
Kentucky (135)
7
Anthony Escuadro
29
24
137
35
Kentucky (139)
8
Chicago Realist
0
0
0
0
()
Part of me wants to think there’s an error somewhere. Part of me believes there ain’t no errors, just some bad picks. (That’s right, I can trash talk ’cause a)anyone can, and b)I’m all the way at the bottom.
~Michael Russell – holding strong at No. 1, with that Mitt Romney smile. Yeah, baby.
~Chris Sabino – might have a hard time catchin’ up to Cinde-Russell story.
~Don -holdin’ nice and steady here; showin’ us how a leader goes about his business.
~K-man showin’ he can hang with the best (or is it the rest?)
~PhiloDave – pullin’ a Jeremy Lin on the other players. Came out strong but is now faddin’.
~JJ – Headin’ south, but not necessarily home.
~A-square (isn’t that how you spells it in spanish?) – The Santorum of the brackets.
~Realist – that makes me Gingrich. Just a side show for the masses.
The brackets have been set and the curious want to know (well, maybe I’m the only one with curiosidad). Here’s how the standings are looking as of 3pm today:
Group Standings
Rank
Team Name
Score
Correct
Best Score
Best Correct
Champion
1
Michael Russell
15
15
188
59
North Carolina (141)
2
Chris Sabino
14
14
187
58
Ohio St. (123)
2
Don Laackman
14
14
185
57
Kentucky (135)
4
David Richardson
13
13
186
57
Missouri (137)
4
Jivin Jenny
13
13
180
54
Kentucky (135)
4
Kamran Swanson
13
13
184
56
Kansas (160)
7
Anthony Escuadro
12
12
179
53
Kentucky (139)
8
Chicago Realist
0
0
0
0
()
Do your trash talkin’ by leavin’ a reply. Here’s my play-by-play:
~Michael Russell looked like odd man out with all these heavyweights, but it looks like he knows his teams. Question is, can he hold the lead. Is he our Cinderella story on The Lounge?
~Hey look, Chris is ahead of Dave! Did junior help with the picks?
~Wow, my man Don is ahead of David! Is this part of Dave’s plan? Are ya worried, PhiloDave? Are YOU worried, Don?
~Jivin Jenny is in 4th? Really? What up Jenny?! Say it isn’t so!
~I’m gonna give Kamran a pass. That Hegel paper is messin’ with his mind. Hint: there’s no logic to these picks, K-man!
~Anthony… so long as you don’t let me down with my grievances, we’re all good. I’ll give you a pass, if your union will permit me to do so.
~I tolds ya I wasn’t playin’. I’ll leave it at that.
OK kids, let’s see where we are in a few days (I’ll do my best to provide regular updates. Blink, and this thing is over!)
If you are really interested in an NCAA bracket competition, I’ve got it all set up on CBSSports.com. The rules are simple:
Sign-up to play and every win gets you points. The points increase every round, from 1 for picking first-round winners, all the way to 32 for the finals.
I know, the first round is over, but better late than not at all. Does anypeep even care about the first round? Let’s just say you can’t go wrong with those picks. Round 2 starts this Thursday so there’s still time.
Have some fun. I know you’re still grading, but this can be a good distraction. Here’s the link to the Harold Lounge 2012 Brackets:
(I won’t be participating for two reasons. Number 1, I did not follow the college basketball scene this season (Northwestern is out and I don’t understand the big deal – even after watching a report last night). Number 2, I don’t know if all these big sponsors are participating because they support college basketball or they support profits. In any case my pondering should not dictate whether or not a bracket competition should or should not occur, so have at it and may the best bracket player and team win!)
With consent from blogmaster PhiloDave, this is a special edition of Website Wednesday that will appear from time to time over the course of the semester. The focus will be our newly designed HWC website, and the CCC website in general, in an effort to give the folks at District some feedback on what we believe to be working or not working with the sites.
We’re posting and commenting. District is listening. Audrey is replying. Life is good in the land of two-way communication.
So, you’ve been using the site for a couple of months now. Anything missing? Finding everything in the right place at the right time? If the answer is yes, then say so and put a smile on Audrey’s face. If not, then say so and put a smile on Audrey’s face while she moves to resolve the concern. (High-five to you Audrey!)
Happy 2nd Lounge-iversary, PhiloDave! Better late than never.
Just so y’all know, Dave was kind enough to exchange a few emails with me in order to make this movie. Those are his answers to the questions. My apologies in advance for some of the strange pauses. Technology is still playing catch-up to the nuances of speech. Feel free to send Dave warm wishes – in person, via email, or leave a comment.
Thanks for your participation and patience, PhiloDave.
Yep. Leave it up to non-politicos for some good ideas on how to solve the SURS problem. I ran across this article (or did this article run across me, I don’t know anymore) over the weekend titled Two U of I Profs Suggest Overhaul of SURS. That’s right they’re faculty and they have some ideas they’d like to share. From the article:
Brown said the plan got good marks when discussed with legislators, labor groups, and U of I faculty. Those include University Economist Fred Giertz, who also sits on the Board of Directors of the State Universities Retirement System. He said Brown and Rich’s plan takes the time to fund pensions in a way the state hasn’t done in decades.
There’s a link at the bottom of the article to the full proposal which has a link to read the full paper. Check it out.
It’s been up for ten days and there have been no comments. If you want to have a say in your college’s future, take a look and perhaps leave a comment.
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