http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uci18sep18,1,3851560.story?track=rss&ctrack=4&cset=true

UCI reenters the reality-based community.

UCI UNHIRES LIBERAL LAW SCHOOL DEANThe Chancellor thought the Regents would block it, so he said, and that the fight would somehow tarnish the new law school. Chancellor Drake, that's your job. You are supposed to argue with the Regents on behalf of UCI. What is it, exactly, that you DO here ( Read more... )

1. Do not describe produce as brown. There is a huge library of Lands' End colors for this exact purpose. The tomatoes themselves look fine. You could get away with calling them russet, or golden, or even tawny. Start over. Also: ew.


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At UC Irvine today. This sign is clearly hand-lettered by cheerful sorority girls or their functional equivalent. What kind of collaborationist Quisling would work so hard for the Mafia music business? Do I even want to know?


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This is interesting. Michael Chabon was a student of my father's in the UCI MFA program more than 20 years ago. He's been a family friend since, and I also admire his writing.

In his website column this week he writes about the value of the program. He's given props to my dad before by name, many times, which was gratifying. This is more ( Read more... )

Salvage website has stuff the University is trying to unload. Good place to get an old van for $1000, a solid iron tank weight 1 ton for $1000, some USB cables, or a Coherent Enterprise Argon Ion Plasma Tube Laser! The last item almost works and is only $4500!

Latest hoot: The two docs who head up their Cardiology Division are neither board certified nor California licensed.

May require bugmenot to read. Short version:The men who run UCI's cardiology program, Jagat Narula and Mani Vannan, have not been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine either in internal medicine or in cardiology. ( Read more... )