ty for amazing link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
this guy is incredible
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/provost-prose/smart-phones-and-not-so-smart-users#sthash.T6bdzv5A.frMHEy6w.dpbs
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I have indicated on numerous occasions that I am a car person. I read car magazines for relaxation, I go to automobile shows, and of course I appreciate the economic impact of the automobile industry. I am also a person who has driven/owned/leased great cars and also some that were very mediocre. More often than not, the least impressive cars that I have driven over the years have been American cars. And, unfortunately at the top of my least impressive list is the Chevrolet Vega
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/provost-prose/gm#sthash.5SCein7f.dpbs
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Dr. Berliner's areas of specialty include the economics of higher education. As of 2009, he is a TIAA/CREF Fellow,[4] and he has served as an associate editor of The American Economist. He is also known for his large collection of over 300 dreidels [5] that have been displayed in museum exhibitions.[1]
how hard can it be to get 300 dreidels
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
he just _belongs_ as an nyt columnist. it would be amazing!
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
there are 2,294 dreidels on ebay right now, why is this guy wasting his money on car magazines
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
a provost examines the world, what fucking editor didn't bother to say that out loud
― j., Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
this is also a thread xp with people who write their own wikipedia pages
a rare moment when the word Babbitt just jumps to mind.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
http://news.hofstra.edu/2014/05/12/provosts-blog-tony-questions/
I’m a great believer in having as much transparency in situations like this as possible. What determines which shows are nominated and which are not? If there is the ability to nominate more shows, as there was this year, why didn’t that happen? I just don’t know the answers to these questions and in the meantime, I have developed doubts and questions about what happened and why it happened. In reality, how political is this process and how much is it truly merit based?
Nothing that has happened this year will deter my watching the Tony Awards broadcast next month.
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
in his defense he is like 200 years old
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
wish they could have this guy do music reviews
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Last Thursday, I went to see Aladdin on Broadway which is a great Disney production. My wife and kids had seen the production previously, so I just went by myself.
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
he did not have to volunteer this sad story just to complain about smart phones
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
My younger daughter was fine in England. We loved being there. The accent was strange to her but people were talking English and she had no trouble communicating. Communicating was not a problem for me either and I was also smart enough not to drive a car and adjust to driving on the "wrong" side of the street.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
this blog is the best thing
http://news.hofstra.edu/2013/10/14/the-provosts-blog-ice-breaker/
Once the person has played with the dog or you have talked about the dog, it is the perfect opening to a more substantive conversation. For example one dog-initiated conversation quickly turned to the topic of responsible testing and the conversation was certainly worthwhile.
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
sounds like a great dinner companion, a real cut-up
The initial rerouting had us staying in Portland from late Friday until Tuesday. I followed up with the airline on the phone (an 8 hour experience from start to finish) and we were given an alternative where we would arrive in Philadelphia on Sunday evening. The alternative involved flying from Portland to Minneapolis and subsequently flying from Minneapolis to Philadelphia, at which point I would rent a car to drive back to New York. We made it almost on time to Minneapolis and prepared to embark on the flight to Philadelphia.
http://news.hofstra.edu/2014/01/27/the-provosts-blog-because-of-the-bad-weather-just-after-new-years-day/
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Someone should introduce him to Marilyn Hagerty, the food critic.
― Plasmon, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
his talents are clearly wasted as a mere provost
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTVDOx35FNg
― Queef Latina (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
He did a music review!
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/provost-prose/one-direction#sthash.tCIJF9pK.dpbs
I was appreciative as well. First, for the time with my daughter. Second, for her taste in music. And third, that I still have an open enough mind to experience and enjoy what I never thought I would appreciate. I’m glad to still be going in more than one direction.
― jmm, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
lol at making sure the last line refers back to the title, good job.
Also his daughters really seem to dislike having birthday parties.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
stole your babbit crack on facebook, sterl. this being about academics i figured i should cite it somewhere (but not there obviously, need to build up my cv).
― j., Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Not NYT, but some good Q/A here (via Digby):
http://online.wsj.com/articles/technical-glitch-clogs-up-u-s-visa-system-1406763970
In Washington, D.C., Mira Edmonds said her au pair's arrival from France, which was scheduled for last Sunday, has been indefinitely delayed. Ms. Edmonds, who is a lawyer, and her husband work full-time and depend on child care for their two children, ages 3 and 6. "I don't know how we're going to cope if she isn't here soon," Ms. Edmonds said.
― schwantz, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Why even have kids at that point
― Spectrum, Friday, 1 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Nobody wants to have to leave their millions to charity when they die.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
newsflash: dependable child care is important!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 August 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Too bad there are no sitters in this country!
― schwantz, Friday, 1 August 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
http://gawker.com/have-you-seen-this-hamptons-mans-egg-salad-recipe-1615373473
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 3 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Eisalat - German for egg salad
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 3 August 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
what a twist
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Sunday, 3 August 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Here's a good one, with a thin veneer of "I am being a good liberal by questioning gender roles."
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/if-we-link-boys-with-bedlam-what-does-that-say-to-our-girls/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Yes, he and his 3-year-old brother have been cooped up in trains a lot in the last 10 days — from Paris to Brussels to the North Sea to London — but there’s also something about the Victorian molding in my friend’s terraced home that looks enough like the parkour course at his school to encourage him to make the attempt.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Naturally, I am offended on behalf of my own children and instantly think of excuses (traveling is stressful, being on your best behavior all the time is exhausting), but I’m also offended on behalf of my friends’ kids.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
the parkour course at his school
So much quid/ag in this phrase
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
not to mention it's being compared to "the Victorian molding in my friend's terraced home"
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Lynn Messina is a novelist living in New York City. Her most recent book is “The Harlow Hoyden,” a comedy of manners set in Regency England.
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 August 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
I want to start getting offended on behalf of my friends' kids
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 August 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/business/less-prep-more-plugs-teenagers-favor-tech-over-clothes.html?_r=0
Not the teens, teens can do whatever they want, but this guy:
Analysts and trend-spotters agree that a major shift in teenage trends, and in teenage spending, is underway. John Morris, a retail analyst at BMO Capital Markets, says that his regular focus groups with teenagers about what trends they find most appealing often stray from clothing.“You try to get them talking about what’s the next look, what they’re excited about purchasing in apparel, and the conversation always circles back to the iPhone 6,” he said. “You get them talking about crop tops, you get a nice little debate about high-waist going, but the conversation keeps shifting back.”
“You try to get them talking about what’s the next look, what they’re excited about purchasing in apparel, and the conversation always circles back to the iPhone 6,” he said. “You get them talking about crop tops, you get a nice little debate about high-waist going, but the conversation keeps shifting back.”
― heck (silby), Friday, 29 August 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
i keep trying to engage my children in conversations about their day but for some reason all they want to talk about is power rangers, tv and sweets
i think it's a major shift in toddler trends
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 August 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link
i just got to the end of the article about how boys can be boisterous and was like... er that's it? no part 2? what was that column supposed to be about?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 August 2014 10:22 (nine years ago) link
life, isn't it a hoot
― j., Friday, 29 August 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
boys' clothes have fire trucks on them! OMGZZZZZZOR
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure this observation is meaningful, seems like junk journalism. Depends on the culture in your household, I think. When I was a kid, we had "tech" - we played with video games, VCR's, boom boxes, tied up the phone lines, etc.
If you look at a lot of fashion online, you'll find that every site is swamped with teens. I'm not sure being obsessed with clothes is bad for kids, though. Preferable to producing a generation of brooding school shooters.
Teen culture on fashion sites can get annoying, but I'm hopeful that teens and pre-teens will eventually become more discriminating...I.e. obnoxious peer-pressure trends like ugly goobedy-gob-on-denim will become less common.
― Opus Gai (I M Losted), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Hahaha WHAT? Teens will always like horrible things, because teens are horrible and also super great. They'll become "more discriminating" in the individual sense as they get older and fall in line with more mainstream trends, but teens as a group, I hope they never change.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah, lack of discrimination is what makes teens teens. if they had any goddam sense, pop culture would ossify.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
i feel like i already complained about this, but maybe not, the other week i was at a coffeeshop, a group of high school girls descended on the table next to me, they seemed to be on some kind of deliberate outing, and they really weren't there that long, enough to drink a cup of coffee, and although they were talking to each other the whole time the only times they weren't each also individually working at their phones was when they were contriving to compose the best pictures of their outing to post with their phones, and then looking at each other's phones. i knew this was a thing, but i felt like i had never seen how far it could be taken, like, almost nothing happened and nothing was discussed and this was a boring coffeeshop with plain old coffee, but self-consciousness obsession with presentation seemed like it had turned the episode into a signal event in life.
― j., Friday, 29 August 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah, they're worse than ever, pretty much
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Oh get off their lawn, all of you.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Ha, IO OTM.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 August 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
almost nothing happened and nothing was discussed and this was a boring coffeeshop with plain old coffee, but self-consciousness obsession with presentation seemed like it had turned the episode into a signal event in life.
Isn't this just ritual elevating something mundane into something sacred? Or at least something set apart, something more than the apparent/visible. It's just a collective agreement to treat something in a special way, which other people who are not teenage girls do ALL THE TIME. Sporting events, any place or item or moment associated with religion--pretty much outside of birth, death, and twoo wuv, EVERYTHING else we consider important in life is because we've entered into an agreement to find it important. So ease up on teenagers.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 29 August 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link