... I couldn't help pondering a certain Applicability (:D) about the whole LotrFF issue ( Read more... )

I admit that I was mildly amused by the most recent Amazon fail. For those who don't know, Amazon.de apparently sent out a few hundred pre-ordered copies of the most recent A Song of Ice and Fire instalment last week. Official publication date: July 12th. The same apparently happened - on a smaller scale - with Amazon.jp. Afterwards, several ( Read more... )

Aaaand... no Noam Chomsky for me.

Because I was foolish enough to assume that when the university homepage explicitly states that admittance to the lectures starts at 7 pm., they will actually start admitting people no earlier than 7 pm ( Read more... )

*sighs*

I probably shouldn't even hope that I'll somehow manage to write all those MEFA reviews I didn't have time for or couldn't arse myself to write earlier now, right ( Read more... )

... shortened to the bottom line, because I'm at work and should be writing my term paper doing, you know, work stuff, and I'm too lazy for a proper rant anyway, but I can't just ignore it because it's one of my pet peeves and I'm sooo tired of it, so here's what my rant would boil down to:

Just because someone isn't outright feminist doesn't ( Read more... )

WTF, AMAZON, WTF.

*sighs* Well, here goes my convenient way of getting books cheap and fast. Idiots.

Aaargh ( Read more... )

An apropriate subject line would have been: The Joys of Mediaevistics. In which Lyra describes her failure at turning her term paper in on time, in which our intrepid heroine furthermore battles tapeworm book titles and manifold distractions, and in which she promises her faithful readers that she will deliver the pictorial proof of her journeys ( Read more... )

Looking at my flist, today seems to be a bad day for academia.

I only had to do a presentation today, neither exam nor job interview, but it still went... meh.
Very meh.

It's not graded and even if it were I don't need the credit points anyway, but it was for the prof I want to do the exam with. I'd meant to show him, through this presentation, ( Read more... )

Es mag ja die offizielle Übersetzung sein, aber "Alphabetisierung" find ich eine grausam schlechte Übersetzung für "Literacy ( Read more... )