Professor Beej

So this past week has been faculty conferences again, and I’m transitioning between working as an adjunct into half-time teaching/half-time administration. It’s a tough transition, actually, and I’m a little more than slightly frazzled. Faculty conferences ended this past week, but now first-year orientation and the first week of classes start, and as such, my [...]

Every time I want to say something about Stargate SG-1 Season 2, I want to call it Stargate SG-2 and be done with it. I know within the context of the show it can’t be called that because the narrative follows the exploits of a team called “SG-1,” but it would be a much easier, [...]

Last year at faculty conferences, the idea of student respect was brought up by an established professor. He urged us, his colleagues, to stop allowing students to use our first names because it established a precedent of disrespect that superseded our authority as instructors. He said that the use of titles—Dr. So-and-So, Professor LastNameHere, Mr./Ms. [...]

Syp at Bio Break consistently lets his readers know that moderation and variety are the spices of his gaming life. Recently, I’ve come to the same conclusion regarding my own gaming habits. Except that I don’t think the variety I’m looking for is purposeful; I think I’m just being fickle and indecisive and probably a [...]

Two of best shows currently airing on TV are ABC’s LOST and HBO’s True Blood. While these two series are incredibly different in scope and subject, they are similar in one major way: they tell their stories through serialization rather than episodic content. If viewers were to watch LOST starting halfway through Season 3, they [...]