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Re: Wearable Teaching? College to Experiment With Apple Watch as Learning Tool

shindo — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:32:11 -0000

Is this an honest question or does it help stigmatize ADD?

Re: Is That Whining Adjunct Someone We Want Teaching Our Young?

shindo — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:54:13 -0000

Magical underpants, yeah! I love it!

Re: Is That Whining Adjunct Someone We Want Teaching Our Young?

shindo — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:26:38 -0000

You (Professor Stukel) don't seem to grasp why grammar matters or why it's important to spell or even be succinct. Clarity in communication matters. You represent yourself as someone you want your students to be. Being a clear communicator seems to be lacking there. This is something that can be costly in the non-academic workplace where second chances to explain oneself are rare. If you are unrepentant about your lack of communication skills, then you would not be someone I'd want to be if I were your student.

Re: Is That Whining Adjunct Someone We Want Teaching Our Young?

shindo — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:45:41 -0000

Apparently, from the same shop where one gets the bootstraps they need to pull themselves up by. Don't look at me. I don't know where to buy big girl panties.

Re: Is That Whining Adjunct Someone We Want Teaching Our Young?

shindo — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:33:45 -0000

Yes, she is frustrating and her letter to the editor was insensitive and out of touch. Name calling doesn't help. That's also known as ad hominen. Keep away from the insults, especially the sexist ones. Attack her argument. What does she say? What's problematic about her claims and generalizations? That is the more intelligent and right way to go about it.

Re: Is That Whining Adjunct Someone We Want Teaching Our Young?

shindo — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:07:15 -0000

This is very funny considering her “bring it on attitude” with her comments here. Where's her “big girl panties” now? She can't handle discussions like an adult?

I'm still amused over her expression “big girl panties.”

Re: When Opportunity Knocks Now, It’s the Opportunity to Be Exploited

shindo — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 20:45:43 -0000

“I'll confess, gasp, that I could have worded that better. But then again, does that really matter?”

Yes, that matters. Clarity in communication matters. You represent yourself as someone you want your students to be. Being a clear communicator seems to be lacking there. This is something that can be costly in the non-academic workplace where second chances to explain oneself are rare. If you are unrepentant about your lack of communication skills, then you would not be someone I'd want to be if I were your student.

Somehow, you got caught up in harking on personal responsibility in a way that came across as clueless, out of touch, and insensitive. Your endless responses to comments on your letter to the editor doesn't ameliorate that perception various commenters and those in my network who shared the link to your story on Facebook have.

I don't doubt you're a nice person or that you want to help. The spin you're doing now doesn't help. The problem is you spit all this stuff out in your letter, and now you're in the damage control mode of “I didn't say that, I didn't mean that, and You're taking me out of context.”

“Or are we going to discuss the real problem? Responsibility for one's own actions? Or the problems with higher education's ratio of ft faculty to pt faculty?”

No one who is adjuncting is dwelling on their actions or personal responsibility on what put us there. Lots of us are having to work multiple gigs, some academic and others non, to have pay and food and shelter and even some money to enjoy life. That does not excuse the inequality in the the workplace. We are doing the same work as tenured colleagues for our courses and I know adjuncts with crazy workloads that exceed 12 units a semester.

We are not a lazy lot. There are adjuncts who are on committees, do projects, meet students, advise clubs, serve in Academic Senate, etc.

That said, yes, some are hacks, hoarders, or whatever else. However, you used them to represent adjuncts as a whole on your rant. Hasty generalizations and ad hominens and misrepresentation hurt, even if it's true for a small sample of the group.

As for the PT/FT ratio, it's about time you bought that up because that's nowhere present in your initial letter. That points to the inequity you don't seem to want to acknowledge. Now that there has been a lot of pushback on what you said, it seems like you're now trying to change the subject.

Re: When Opportunity Knocks Now, It’s the Opportunity to Be Exploited

shindo — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:54:53 -0000

Here are Professor Stukel's words:

“I can only say that I have had full-time employment with benefits both inside and outside working in academia for over 30 years.”

So what do you, Professor Stukel, mean by this sentence? Can you make it clearer, plainer, perhaps dumb it down for those of us who aren't as brilliant as you?

Re: Republican politician: Gay men doing anal sex is like ‘taking a dump in your bed’

shindo — Tue, 20 May 2014 20:32:36 -0000

He looks gay. He trips my gaydar like Marcus Bachmann.

Re: Republican politician: Gay men doing anal sex is like ‘taking a dump in your bed’

shindo — Tue, 20 May 2014 20:30:41 -0000

Queen, please! Every time I see these public homophobes, they strike me as being gay. And then there is their obsession with butt sex? What gives?

Re: Santorum Claims Homosexuals Stole Election

shindo — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:51:08 -0000

I should be aware of my confirmation bias, which blinded me to the satire. I wanted it to be true, considering what a nutcase he actually is. At least I know seeking to confirm is a critical thinking problem and I can be more aware of it in the future.

Re: Success with my first real bow tie! @shindoverse this first pic is dedicated to you!

shindo — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:47:32 -0000

Awesome!

Re: http://life.thepete.com/post/863769328

shindo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:25:30 -0000

At least he looks like a Bond villain. Kim Jong-Il, on the other hand, looks like Dr. Evil's Asian cousin.

Re: The MacBook Pro has arrived!! In fact, I uploaded these pics OF it FROM it!! WAHOO!!

shindo — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:04:00 -0000

That is so cool! And it's beautiful! I'm really happy to hear that your community came through for you on the computer - congratulations! The resourcefulness of your wife and the generosity of those who contributed - awesome!

Re: Kana Invaders from http://learnjapanesepod.com a GREAT way to practice reading kana!

shindo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:28:49 -0000

That is a really cool app. I'm rusty on this stuff myself. Japanese keyboard settings make it possible, but Japanese typing is a game itself.

Re: Fiction meets fiction: “Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church Headed to Comic-Con”

shindo — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:36:05 -0000

I will get to see the Phelps as I will attend Comic-Con. Frankly, I think Comic-Con's an afterthought for them (and an excuse to say in San Diego for a few more days) as they're obsessed with LGBT prides, the San Diego celebration occuring the week before. I like one of my local Twitter friends' suggestion to assemble a hot girl army to make out in front of the WBC, though a hot guy army would do more damage.

As for their interpretation of those verses - geez, what a stretch. It goes without saying they are beyond being nutters.

Re: @shindotv of Shindotv.com makes a depressing disturbing point about the weather in the US….

shindo — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:29:25 -0000

Thanks for the shoutout! I'm still having to sleep under several blankets and I haven't experienced a summer this cool since 1987. I think 1995 also had a relatively cool summer here. What would really interesting to compare NYC summers with cool summers in the US's sunbelts, if there is a pattern.

Re: http://life.thepete.com/post/783005356

shindo — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:47:28 -0000

It also reminded me of those Calvin Klein ads from the late 90's, the ones with the emaciated people in the wood-paneled rooms.

Re: OK, it’s now officially too damn hot in NYC. 102 >_<

shindo — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:18:34 -0000

Here in San Diego, we have the opposite problem. It's been a cool summer here in Southern California so far. Cloudy, low heat, the need to sleep under several blankets at night - it's more like a northern European summer. Something's wrong with the earth when it's scorching hot in NYC and a little too mellow in what should be sunny SoCal.

Re: http://life.thepete.com/post/403725895

shindo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:12:21 -0000

Solar power is a must for sure for several things. Definitely need something to catch internet signals with. Plus, there's also the need to figure out who to pay televison licence to.

Re: http://life.thepete.com/post/403725895

shindo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:45:13 -0000

It sounds like a wonderful idea. Maybe I'll start building one, float around the ocean, and I'll call the island "Shindonia." Then I'll find the country that will claim the island and I'd enjoy their protection wherever I go.

Re: Amazing graphic on how useless paying your credit card minimums is from Cracked.com via @shindotv http://goo.gl/gOAT

shindo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:40:39 -0000

The whole subject makes me feel ill too, but it's hard to get away from. I'm glad the whole frakked-up-ness of the credit card system is being exposed by Cracked. Hopefully, everyone will wake up and see what a messed up system it is.

Thanks for the shout-out! Hopefully, your cat will have had some calming effect on you now.

Re: Bob Herbert, Rina Cutler, @StoweBoyd and me on repairing/replacing American infrastructure...

shindo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:43:20 -0000

If we're to make changes, this is the time to do it. With the American workforce in dire straits and the economic engines of this country just sputtering, we all have to rethink the way we do business and live our lives. The things that stand in our way is a status quo that no longer works - automobiles, conspicuous consumption, financial practices that have led to this mess, and unsustainable technologies and power sources. All these things are unsustainable, so why are we trying to build our country back to what doesn't work.

Like you, I don't buy this whole hyperbole of tearing down the house to rebuild the kitchen. The support structure of the house is rotten, termite eaten, unstable, or all of the above. The whole house, or national culture of how we do things, needs an overhaul.

Re: http://life.thepete.com/post/393155061

shindo — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:15:23 -0000

I think George Cloutier found a more surefire approach to entrepreneurship - find a clientele desperate for his services.

Re: http://life.thepete.com/post/387500946

shindo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:59:13 -0000

That is really cool!