August 22, 2002
Just made a good practice
Just made a good practice talk, 50 minutes but solid. The one I give tomorrow will probably go even faster. And I make sure to drop in lots of "but you can ask me about that later", so I should mostly get pretty easy questions (knock on wood).
Incidentally, I just thought of a good phrase to describe the prevailing political philosophy of Brown ugrads: "closed-minded progressivity". I probably am not the first to come up with this. Sure, there are many open-minded people on the campus, but there are a frightening number who are dogmatically 'progressive', embodying everything that's wrong with the notion of political correctness. It's sad, really. Better than dogmatic conservatives, I guess.
"Rainbows look pretty a long way off up in the sky, and maybe as a
bumber sticker. They do not make a good color scheme. The point of
having a color scheme is that you, you know, choose colors, not just
accept them all. Don't worry. They're just colors. They won't feel
offended." --Kevin Colby
Posted
by blahedo
at 4:43pm
on 22 Aug 2002
