The New York Times says that BILLIONS of dollars are being wasted in federal spending on school internet hookups. Excuse me, but no shit. Most school 'technical steering committees mistake willingness to spend outregeous sums on the latest - untested - technology for technical innovation. Less grand advancement which is evolutionary from the technological level that the institution can already use and support is neglected and allowed to atrophy.
Educational institutions have an enormous amount of financial inertia and an academic attitude, which is like a NIH syndrome on steroids. I have found the best way to fight this inertia is to support educators who use technology as a tool to help with the subject they are trying to teach, rather than as the subject they need to teach first.
At the low wages paid by academic institutions to anyone who is not 'bright young faculty' or 'forward looking administrators' (those two groups see the need to scrap anything with more than a couple years in use and replace it with the the current popular item) it's surprising anyone wants to teach at all. I guess it looks pretty good to the new workers we are turning out, whose new economic recovery salaries average nine thousand dollars a year, (according to a guest on this morning's Diane Rheem show.)
Hey, thanks. Everybody gets to whine about their jobs at least once on their blog. I'll try not to do it again, at least until I retire in six years, six months, three weeks and two days.
It's time to raise some revenue here at the 101 Ranch. And I know how much pledge drives suck, so I'll be selling off a few more of those meaningless scraps of thought, my original Post It™ notes:
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As always, these one of a kind artworks are priced at a 'pocketbook loving' 98 bucks apiece. In the middle is a star-hop map to find R Andromidae, a carbon star near the M-31 galaxy (in the sky, not in space) it's a two piece set,and has a hundred fortynine dollar special price. If these don't fit your decor, write, I've got more.
ATTENTION POOR ART COLLECTORS: Just print these out in color, apply a little gluestick to the back, and voila! - faux art.
