Category: General
Phones in the theatre
On the sin of mobile or cell phones ringing in class, here’s a YouTube clip of Hugh Jackman stopping a performance because a phone is going off (and remains unanswered and unsilenced for quite a long time!):
As usual, the BBC has more detail. Of course, it’s not the first time that an actor has been annoyed by interrupting phones: like Jackman, but unlike David Suchet Richard Griffiths has stopped a play when a phone went off; but, unlike Jackman, he asked the offending audience member to leave. However, angry actors had better beware: don’t smash the phone or throw it at the offender!
Update: the original YouTube video to which I provided a link is down due to a copyright claim by TMZ, presumably relating to the clip to which this post is now linked.…
Something about law
From the New Yorker Cartoon Bank:
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Image: Man in plush law office talking to woman attorney.
Caption: You seem to know something about law. I like that in an attorney.…
Cartoons in the Academy
From Kelly Anders on the Faculty Lounge:
Cartoons in the Academy
Cruise the halls of a typical grouping of faculty offices in any law school, and several cartoons are sure to adorn the walls and doors. Some are funny in a mild-mannered way, while others can be quite political. Are cartoon postings yet another perk of being tenured, or do untenured faculty and staff feel just as comfortable displaying these images? Do they make us more “human” to students, or does their presence provide a small sense of comfort that academic seriousness has not made us lose our youthful edge? Personally, I do not have any funnies or political commentary taped on my door, but I do have a book of museum cartoons from The New Yorker in my office. Some of my colleagues occasionally use a cartoon in their classes. If you have cartoons nearby, what are they depicting and how are they used? Does anyone mention them?
Well, I have had cartoons on my notice board for as long as I have been teaching, and I post ones I like on this site. More to the point, I use them on my courses’ WebCT/Blackboard sites and in class, to provide an accessible way in to heavy material or as an alternative to my (dry and sadly misunderstood) humour.…
Ave, Salve, Vale
from Dr Gernot Biehler – An Appreciation
The Law School is very sad to announce the passing of our beloved friend and colleague, Dr Gernot Biehler [pictured left], husband of Professor Hilary Delany, on Sunday 13th September. … We will always remember him with the greatest affection and respect.
A Memorial Service will be held at 5.15pm on Thursday 8 October 2009 in the College Chapel, Trinity College Dublin.
Update (26 September 2009): An obituary from the Irish Times: Versatile Trinity College law fellow who first came to Ireland as diplomat.…
Peak productivity
From the ever-wonderful Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD), a graduate student comic strip:
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Tech support
From xkcd, via Rumble Strips, a flowchart with which we can all identify – sometimes I’m the tech support, sometimes the baffled “not computer person”:
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Bonus links from xkcd (1): some other entertaining flowcharts; (2) a very clever Legal Hack; and (3) my favourite, a chess photo!…
Laff, laff
On Cobh’s misappropriation of Australia Day, if you can’t forget Skippy, then you can’t forget Lassie either. From Strange Brew via the Language Log:
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Language Log adds a further joke – I wonder if Simon Fodden would call this a lapdog?…
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