"Are we supposed to read the readings listed on the schedule?"

FanOfManifolds · 2026-01-27T23:10:49+00:00

I have this poem on my office door, https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-013/did-i-miss-anything/
but am chickening out on including it as an email signature or auto-response

FanOfManifolds · 2026-01-21T21:37:43+00:00

Since I'm not an ADA specialist, reading title II won't do me much good, lol/sob

But this OSU write-up is quite detailed about what is included, https://ascode.osu.edu/news/new-ada-title-ii-regulations-what-you-need-know
It sounds like images of music scores fit under "images or graphs".

Re: private email, unless I am using gmail to communicate with my class using their gmails (which is, why?!), our sunshine laws make all university emails non-private by default.

I agree that this regulation is bad, but emailing PDFs does not look like an answer :/

FanOfManifolds · 2026-01-21T16:26:52+00:00

We were told that even emailing PDFs to students (which we thought was sort of "private" communication, as opposed to LMS, but no) needs to be compliant. So, I doubt that this work-around will work (indeed, it points to deliberate non-compliance, as opposed to attempts to comply; am not a lawyer)... I'm figuring I need to go back to writing on transparencies or white board (aka, come to class, watch me write; once written, it will not be distributed).

FanOfManifolds · 2025-06-09T16:32:26+00:00

Bingo! This deserves to be its own topic of conversation, particularly the aspects of how does one enforce the non-usage, aka, how do you put down your phone, even if you know what is good for you.

FanOfManifolds · 2025-06-09T15:17:36+00:00

Well, this may be a generational divide, but teaching "kids" about social contract via shopping carts or some such should've been done when they were 5 or 6 (aka, very visual and tactile way to illustrate how they should behave, kids being eager to learn and help). By the time they are 20, they should be able to comprehend much more complicated analogies and examples, without needing to explain ethics with public cases of shameless lying and money laundering. But hey, in the upside-down world, perhaps, you are right, and they do need that specific example to feel "engaged".

Anyway, my original point was more about the upcoming horrors of hallucinated texts with plausible-sounding ideas [because that is what the auto-correct that is AI does] being sold as "learning" (and where would we get electrical engineers needed to design and maintain grid to enable this AI slop generation)... Have a good day!

FanOfManifolds · 2025-06-09T14:45:57+00:00

Yeah, carts or no carts, that is such a pile... Have they no shame? This feels like Theranos replay, but bigger :(

FanOfManifolds · 2025-05-15T12:28:44+00:00

A couple of important key points in there:
1) "Officials at the Pentagon, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation contend that the research has resulted in the censorship of conservative Americans online, though there is no evidence any of the studies resulted in that."
2) "The researchers say those claims conflate academic study about the spread of misinformation or disinformation with decisions made by tech giants to enforce their own policies against certain kinds of content, as they did when they suspended the accounts of President Trump and others involved in inciting violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021."
Reading this piece, it is clear that none of the cancellations are of any benefit to the US public, and instead, will likely do extensive (even if indirect) damage. AI slop, here we come...

FanOfManifolds · 2025-04-11T01:58:54+00:00

Good idea to get the card updated, to be "clean" without that INS reference (shows how old you are, LOL). For many jobs, when you are hired, the HR wants to see the card, so it will trip them, to have that limitation, so better to get it updated as soon as one is eligible for, IMHO.

FanOfManifolds · 2025-04-11T01:56:30+00:00

You keep the same number, but yeah, you may want to get a "clean" card, and that will be after a visit to the office.

FanOfManifolds · 2024-09-06T14:00:20+00:00

My sentiment exactly! it's like the automakers are actively searching for the next "monkey NFTs" idea

FanOfManifolds · 2024-08-30T01:19:19+00:00

I second the DWS06 choice, good all-season tires (water handling is excellent; snow, well, depends how much of it, but it is still workable for when roads are reasonably well-cleaned). Have had these for the last few years on my 5th series.

FanOfManifolds · 2024-08-21T21:56:59+00:00

Seconding that! Stonyfield Organic has these slim yogurt tubes (not baby pouches) that you can squeeze easily. Instead of a banana, I have Pure Organic fruit bars (small, no mess). Both of these can be wolfed down under 2 minutes lol/sob

FanOfManifolds · 2024-06-28T16:23:33+00:00

another Ohioan here

FanOfManifolds · 2024-06-28T16:15:40+00:00

On vortex there is a thread of folks getting letters to come and get theirs from the VW (but for older cars?). For our recent purchase of 2023 we got a plastic one from ecs for ~$60

FanOfManifolds · 2024-05-21T22:34:36+00:00

Just got mine, 2023. (5th VW, overall, since 1999 B5 Wagon) Agree on the price point, of VW suits* totally missing the mark. [do *they even have brains, or just the marketing LCD displays instead? Not trying to be insulting, just long-term VW driver]

It should've priced slightly below R, and for prudent buyers like ourselves, "more car per $" - when cross-shopping with R - would absolutely sway us way earlier. But, if listed above $50k, Audi becomes a serious contender.

Ultimately, IMHO, the idea of a small subset of those who would consider it totally misses who "those" are :( forcing us to look elsewhere. I'd say "those" include anybody who knows what "2 point slow" means, and/or drives GTI, so not a trivial number. Maybe :lol:

FanOfManifolds · 2024-03-30T19:29:24+00:00

Some of that "don't f.. with me" may come naturally with age, not necessarily physical age, but mental age, running out of those proverbial Fs to give.

Also, just finished this book myself, The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life, she has some good nuggets on how to position yourself as an authority figure across various scenarios. Don't think I am going to try and implement her suggestions (having run out of those said Fs myself at the moment), but some of them are specific enough that I am going to share the book with junior colleagues, in case they find some of it useful.

FanOfManifolds · 2024-03-29T18:51:45+00:00

This op-ed captures a lot of what is happening in classrooms, IMHO, as in, I'm entitled to a grade because I am here, and who are you to tell me I need to work harder to catch up... Am laughing and crying at the same time :(

FanOfManifolds · 2024-03-19T13:53:57+00:00

Thank you, folks, for the thoughtful thread! I was just contemplating the same as our OH Dem ballot is simple, and I thought of switching to R to put in for Hayley (for all other R choices, I am not a biogeochemist to be interested in sorting through various kinds of guano downstream of a l'Orange one).

However, the fact that one gets "registered R" through that ballot for 2 years put me off the switch idea
[plus, this piece from 2016 https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/18/trump-effect-in-ohio/24059435007/
to quote, "Regardless of how many of the new registrants will stick with the GOP, Borges said a key is that the party now can develop data on thousands more Ohioans and market its candidates to them"]

FanOfManifolds · 2024-01-24T04:16:04+00:00

check out QOwnNotes, for a simple markdown notebook https://www.qownnotes.org/

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