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Thoughts for any day
By
Steve Draper,
Department of Psychology,
University of Glasgow.
Time management: "... the tumult and boredom of everyday life -- itself
an unceasing and futile pursuit, consumed by plans"
"Our job is not to be teacherly, but enabling"
What if they drop out after a year? Will they have 0.25 of each graduate attribute?
Sarcasm at work: "How are you?" "Exhausted from happiness."
Candidate terms for a rapidly spreading kind of trauma which now affects
millions of people every day: when your ITC stops working
[copied from Donald Knuth http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html
]
- notwork failure (Joshua Levy)
- cyber despair (David Eisenbud, Talin)
- technitis (Chuck McManis)
- compu-terror (Steve Diamond)
- cyber burned or cyburned (Betsy Zeller, Dave Marvit)
- techno lost (Ned Holbrook)
- byte-bitten (Robert Sapolsky)
- digital dread (Aza Raskin)
- techno angst (Jono DiCarlo)
- irritable bit syndrome (Charles Merriam)
- bot rot (Bruce Baumgart)
- PC panic (J. H. Quick, student)
- PCsick, rhymes with seasick (Bruce Baumgart)
- Vista-vexation (Ryan Zoerner)
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Extradited to the land of no return.