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Damn, their car was exposed for only a few seconds. Talk about bad luck.

Fairweather, I agree with you about the governor. I can't remember the last time I heard the governor say anything or offer any leadership. I do have to give credit to the mayor of New Orleans and the police force as a whole though. Yes, maybe they weren't prepared as they should have been but heck, everyone was caught with their pants down. The mayor stepped up to the plate, did what he could to offer leadership and get national help (even if it was by blaming the feds). He had the balls to say that he and the city are basically helpless, while Bush was busy denying knowledge that the levies could have broken, and consoling his buddy that one of his seaside mansions is gone. My final verdict of the mayor's performance waits till later, when I know more about the city's preparation and evacuation. The police were overworked and overstressed, and if there were bad apples in the force, you'd find those same bad apples in any other city.

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I think free education is a great idea too! Let's do it by lowering taxes!

$17 / hr * 40 hrs / wk * 50 wks / yr = $34000 / yr. That means that someone coming out of college (acquiring say $100000 in debt) would have to work for seven years earning double to break even with the person who got a job straight out of HS. Or maybe the govt should also provide free education? And the latte... If an emploee makes 17 lattes per hour, e.g. one every 3-4 minutes, there's $1 of labor going per latte.

Army Natl Guard Army Corp of Engineers Coast Guard Red Cross FEMA DHS Discuss. Is it because the latter two suffer from nepotism?

In that case, you believe that ending minimum wage would reduce unemployment dramatically?

Yes, my rule on powerpoint is to minimize use of words and bullets. Powerpoint is for graphs, pictures, and *meaningful* animations. When deriving algorithms ior writing code I'll use the old-fashioned overhead. I agree with you completely that you're disrespecting the students and their tuition dollars by reading out of the textbook.

Yep, I think folks are just fucking spoiled.

Climb: Dragontail-Backbone Date of Climb: 7/31/2005 Trip Report: We climbed it a while ago but we've been too busy too write up a respectable TR. I haven't had time yet to do my usual photo enhancements. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ania/Dragontail_Jul05/trip_report.html

is necessary, according to one of the mayoral candidates

Yep, when I do powerpoint slides (I'll likely be shifting frequently between powerpoint and overhead), I plan on including some "And now for something completely different" stills, e.g. rubber duckies being smoked out of a pipe.

I think it's disrespectful to come to lecture and listen to your ipod and play Solitaire. Stay home instead. Likewise, if you're sleepy, I'd rather you sleep in the comfort of your own bed or leave class for a minute to run around the building to perk yourself up. Pop quizzes are a good idea, but they need to be graded... throwing in exam questions on material only covered in class is the way to go. Justin -- it's a course on data structures and algorithms, pretty much the heart of CS. Searching and sorting. Lists, maps, balanced binary trees, graphs... If all goes well, the course project, built cumulatively over the four assignments (with extensive skeleton code provided by me) will be a Java application that can identify what peaks you are seeing from a given location, or at least an approximation -- there's a few details regarding earth curvature that I'm ignoring for right now.

Yeah, the late policy is pretty spelled out. I give them some number of grace days over the quarter before they start losing points for latework. And I figured out my late policy. If I show up late, even a minute, I owe them food the next lecture. Same if my pager beeps in class.

Thanks. I've had plenty of years of TA experience, including running quiz sections, guest lecturing. and writing assignments and exams. The main thing is I've never done ALL of it at once. And this quarter won't be purely a teaching quarter -- I need to make some research progress too (to be quantified exactly at a meeting we halleluhah scheduled in advance). I think the hardest thing for me with the course will be finding the right balance of how much I can cover. I'm obviously incredibly enthusiastic about it and have all these grandiose ideas, but I'm expecting somewhat of a reality check. Though my students are smart, this is a CS course, and they're not CS majors. If they could do CS is their sleep, they may have been CS majors instead. But it will be a good experience, especially if I don't want to teach at a top-tier school.

It's my first class as Instructor as opposed to TA (and I get paid 1.75X too!) I need to write five assignments, two midterms, one final, and thirty lectures, in addition to dealing with all the administrivia that TAs are normally sheltered from. This is what I want to spend the rest of my life doing, so I want this experience to be as good as possible, both for myself and my students.

i'm not requiring attendance for my class, except for exams. i do expect they turn things in on time, though i'll give them a generous late policy.

Ignoring any potential biases in the rebuilding, a disaster is definitely an urban planner's dream.

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Faireather, I chose the thread title 1) to get people's attention 2) as a reactionary contrast to how careful teachers need to be in response to today's PC/litigious world

MattP, I believe.

I'm writing the late policy for assignments as part of the syllabus. http://depts.washington.edu/grading/issue1/conduct.htm#behaviors

These days it is illegal to grade a student on their conduct. What this means is that you cannot grade attendance or timeliness on assignments. Instead, you need to be clever and grade them on participation and the ability to master material in a certain amount of time.

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She's badass!