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Tag Archives: LSU
No Assistant Professorship for you!
A few of you know that I applied for a faculty position at LSU (my PhD advisor’s position). I was told last week that the position has been frozen. I don’t know when/if they’ll get permission to fill it any … Continue reading
JB’s College Football Question of the Week for August 24 – 30, 2008
College football season starts this Saturday (August 30), and in celebration of that glorious day I’m starting a new feature on this blog: JB’s College Football Question of the Week. Since it’s my blog I can do things however I … Continue reading
Seriously, Americans Have Too Much Money
I saw this on Dandy Don’s website this morning (emphasis added): Due to limited parking spaces, the use of limousines as transportation to the football games is discouraged. Limousines that do travel to LSU for the football games will be … Continue reading
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Tagged America, conspicuous displays of wealth, Football, LSU, overconsumption
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Thoughts on LSU-Arkansas
Meh. I’m sure there are one or two people who are waiting for me to explode in a white-hot ball of fury about the game. But they watched it, just like I did, and they probably know what I’ll say. … Continue reading
Feelin’ fat in Baton Rouge
Well, here I am again in Baton Rouge. I delayed my trip by a day due to a minor Henry illness. He’s fine, though, so there’s nothing to worry about. I flew into New Orleans where I was met by … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles, Baton-Rouge, Ellery, fire-department, Food, Henry, LSU
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Who’s Up For A Road Trip on September 18?
I’ll be in Baton Rouge September 15-18 to give a seminar at LSU and go to the LSU-Middle Tennessee State game. I’m flying in and out of New Orleans because it saves you taxpayers a lot of money — see … Continue reading
LSU to PETA: Please mind your own business
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has an article on their website urging LSU to not replace Mike V with another live tiger mascot. I respect PETA’s right to disagree with me about Mike, but I don’t like … Continue reading
Perl without tears, the perils of revenge
A couple of days ago I needed to install html2latex on the server because it’s part of the documentation toolchain for PyPedal. Which meant a long, strange trip into Perl-land which required that I install packages from CPAN without root … Continue reading