¨Restaurants, stop using QR codes to have patrons access the menu on their phones.¨
Agreed! Also: google ¨cue cat¨ (or ¨cuecat¨). Same stupid idea.
¨What makes you think I want to use emojis in a goddamn work email?!¨
I just knew if I adopted the overly effusive IG-style the very people unhappy that I wasn´t using the style would promptly decide I was hitting on everything that moved. Bien sur.
¨Sometimes I reciprocate a “Hi Dan” with a “Hi Person Who Wrote to Dan” — and I feel dirty every time I do it.¨
I plead guilty to using ¨Hi¨ in email (and also ´Bonjour´ and ´Hey´ and several other things). In my defence I use it because people get weirded out by the formality of ´Dear Professor Drenzer´. I will note that down after your name.
(Two weeks ago the Amazon package truck came, so I went across to meet him. He had six large boxes so I helped them by taking them all. Said thanks, and absent-mindedly said, ´Merry Christmas´ because in THIS neighborhood, they want Merry Christmas. The problem was, was the guy looked Lebanese to me, and maybe was actually Afghani. At any rate, he laughed awkwardly. Halfway across the lawn with six big boxes it occurred to me that ´Merry Christmas' is exactly the wrong thing to say to someone who is likely Muslim. Whoops! I started to turn around and ask, but uh, six large boxes and the guy needed to go because Christmas season. Exactly right salutations & greetings: HARD. So. I started asking, ´Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays´. ´Well, actually, I celebrate Yule.´ OH. Ok! ´Happy Yule. Wait. Cheery Yule!´
So: Dear Professor Drenzer it is, Dan.)
¨Is it necessary, as a commentator, for me to pay attention to TikTok as the voice of a younger generation?¨
What about Twitch? ´The rumour about Mikey and the Pop Rocks is a clear sign Democrats need to shift to the right on food safety.´ So: feel free to ignore TikTok.
¨To paraphrase Montesquieu — see what I did there? — weak-ass claims of plagiarism weaken necessary claims of plagiarism. Cut it out. ¨
Wait? Christopher Rufo originated the claims of plagarism? Oh. I saw the one article in the Atlantic which contained a lot of harumphing (that I might agree with) but presumed guilt, which seemed a little off-balance. But if it´s a Christopher Rufo hit job, never mind. One merely observes the obvious: President Gay is black, and then pause to wonder aloud why there´s always time to heap crap on black people in high profile positions, and right out in the open rank corruption goes unremarked except to argue that´s ... perfectly normal.
elm
happy chinese takeout and movie watching day daniel!
I've spent Christmases in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Egypt. The only place and people that I've experienced getting bent out of shape over the specifics of holiday greetings are Christians in America.
Yeah. They´re very cranky about that sort of thing around here. The Ukrainian flags all went up after Feb 24th and they stayed up through the fall. Then Trump (and Elon Musk) came in against the Ukrainians because the whole thing was making Vlad sad, and they felt so so very bad for Daddy Vlad, and then all those flags ... disappeared. Dude that was over here with one, still has the stars and stripes up, but underneath is a ´Imperium of Man´ flag - Warhammer 40,000. Yay.
Whatever. I try to give people the appropriate greeting and unfortunately, I somehow do not know what the appropriate greeting would be for a Muslim, especially one who was Afghani and is maybe a refugee.
Well, it´s in the genre of ´important job given to a black person, and SUDDENLY there is a discovery of shocking information [like say, a fake birth certificate] and the usual suspects harumph about standards, and how could this happen and then it just so happens to be almost or totally fake put-up job from some right-wing activist´. This would be episode 8,914 apparently. 🤷🏻♂️
elm
curiously, no one ever seems to discover shocking information about winger dudes until someone goes back and *reads last years newspaper* so it would be cruel to, like, do anything about that
Serious question -- do the citation standards of political science *really* allow things like taking a source saying:
"Furthermore, the results show that empowerment influences black participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation to politics and by greatly increasing black attentiveness to political affairs."
and "paraphrasing" it as:
"Empowerment, they conclude, influences black participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing black attentiveness to political affairs."
What percentage of political science articles would you estimate include paraphrases that use the exact language of the source without quotation marks?
Gotta say, disliking the use of "Hi" as a greeting in emails is a real Raging Old Man take. I'm almost 40, and I find it weird when someone starts an email with "Dear." (Unless the person in question is German.) I'm not an academic, though, so my professional email interactions do not have the pretense of formality that you might expect if you're dealing with students.
Re: dress codes at conferences, my default conference attire has long been slacks/dress shirt/blazer/no tie. I find that this nearly always fits within the range of acceptability, unless a particular dress code is specified. Post-covid, it's more likely to be on the more formal side, but still not so much that I feel overdressed (and if its a multiple-day event, I could always drop the blazer on day two).
The menu on the phone is still more readable because I can not only make it as big as I want I can make it bright as I want. Even I am old enough to have grievances about how dimly lit restaurants are in the evening, and you have a few years on me.
re: Salutations in email
Email comes with a "To:" field built in. The body needs no salutation whatsoever. Just get to the damn point, already. Even if you don't value my time you should at least value your own.
Unhappy Festivus to you Daniel!
¨Restaurants, stop using QR codes to have patrons access the menu on their phones.¨
Agreed! Also: google ¨cue cat¨ (or ¨cuecat¨). Same stupid idea.
¨What makes you think I want to use emojis in a goddamn work email?!¨
I just knew if I adopted the overly effusive IG-style the very people unhappy that I wasn´t using the style would promptly decide I was hitting on everything that moved. Bien sur.
¨Sometimes I reciprocate a “Hi Dan” with a “Hi Person Who Wrote to Dan” — and I feel dirty every time I do it.¨
I plead guilty to using ¨Hi¨ in email (and also ´Bonjour´ and ´Hey´ and several other things). In my defence I use it because people get weirded out by the formality of ´Dear Professor Drenzer´. I will note that down after your name.
(Two weeks ago the Amazon package truck came, so I went across to meet him. He had six large boxes so I helped them by taking them all. Said thanks, and absent-mindedly said, ´Merry Christmas´ because in THIS neighborhood, they want Merry Christmas. The problem was, was the guy looked Lebanese to me, and maybe was actually Afghani. At any rate, he laughed awkwardly. Halfway across the lawn with six big boxes it occurred to me that ´Merry Christmas' is exactly the wrong thing to say to someone who is likely Muslim. Whoops! I started to turn around and ask, but uh, six large boxes and the guy needed to go because Christmas season. Exactly right salutations & greetings: HARD. So. I started asking, ´Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays´. ´Well, actually, I celebrate Yule.´ OH. Ok! ´Happy Yule. Wait. Cheery Yule!´
So: Dear Professor Drenzer it is, Dan.)
¨Is it necessary, as a commentator, for me to pay attention to TikTok as the voice of a younger generation?¨
What about Twitch? ´The rumour about Mikey and the Pop Rocks is a clear sign Democrats need to shift to the right on food safety.´ So: feel free to ignore TikTok.
¨To paraphrase Montesquieu — see what I did there? — weak-ass claims of plagiarism weaken necessary claims of plagiarism. Cut it out. ¨
Wait? Christopher Rufo originated the claims of plagarism? Oh. I saw the one article in the Atlantic which contained a lot of harumphing (that I might agree with) but presumed guilt, which seemed a little off-balance. But if it´s a Christopher Rufo hit job, never mind. One merely observes the obvious: President Gay is black, and then pause to wonder aloud why there´s always time to heap crap on black people in high profile positions, and right out in the open rank corruption goes unremarked except to argue that´s ... perfectly normal.
elm
happy chinese takeout and movie watching day daniel!
I've spent Christmases in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Egypt. The only place and people that I've experienced getting bent out of shape over the specifics of holiday greetings are Christians in America.
Yeah. They´re very cranky about that sort of thing around here. The Ukrainian flags all went up after Feb 24th and they stayed up through the fall. Then Trump (and Elon Musk) came in against the Ukrainians because the whole thing was making Vlad sad, and they felt so so very bad for Daddy Vlad, and then all those flags ... disappeared. Dude that was over here with one, still has the stars and stripes up, but underneath is a ´Imperium of Man´ flag - Warhammer 40,000. Yay.
Whatever. I try to give people the appropriate greeting and unfortunately, I somehow do not know what the appropriate greeting would be for a Muslim, especially one who was Afghani and is maybe a refugee.
elm
i´ll figure it out - happy new year!
Agreed that Chris Rufo hit jobs should never be taken seriously.
Well, it´s in the genre of ´important job given to a black person, and SUDDENLY there is a discovery of shocking information [like say, a fake birth certificate] and the usual suspects harumph about standards, and how could this happen and then it just so happens to be almost or totally fake put-up job from some right-wing activist´. This would be episode 8,914 apparently. 🤷🏻♂️
elm
curiously, no one ever seems to discover shocking information about winger dudes until someone goes back and *reads last years newspaper* so it would be cruel to, like, do anything about that
Serious question -- do the citation standards of political science *really* allow things like taking a source saying:
"Furthermore, the results show that empowerment influences black participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation to politics and by greatly increasing black attentiveness to political affairs."
and "paraphrasing" it as:
"Empowerment, they conclude, influences black participation by contributing to a more trusting and efficacious orientation towards politics and by greatly increasing black attentiveness to political affairs."
What percentage of political science articles would you estimate include paraphrases that use the exact language of the source without quotation marks?
Restaurants, stop using QR codes to have patrons access the menu on their phones.
Yes yes YES!
:) The song did make Caramanica's top songs of the year list alongside Lily-Rose Depp's song from "The Idol".
#76-ish on the Billboard top 100 of the year is emphatically not what it used to be but no TikTok data are used to compile that.
Gotta say, disliking the use of "Hi" as a greeting in emails is a real Raging Old Man take. I'm almost 40, and I find it weird when someone starts an email with "Dear." (Unless the person in question is German.) I'm not an academic, though, so my professional email interactions do not have the pretense of formality that you might expect if you're dealing with students.
Re: dress codes at conferences, my default conference attire has long been slacks/dress shirt/blazer/no tie. I find that this nearly always fits within the range of acceptability, unless a particular dress code is specified. Post-covid, it's more likely to be on the more formal side, but still not so much that I feel overdressed (and if its a multiple-day event, I could always drop the blazer on day two).
re: Menus
The menu on the phone is still more readable because I can not only make it as big as I want I can make it bright as I want. Even I am old enough to have grievances about how dimly lit restaurants are in the evening, and you have a few years on me.
re: Salutations in email
Email comes with a "To:" field built in. The body needs no salutation whatsoever. Just get to the damn point, already. Even if you don't value my time you should at least value your own.
Don't give the Chinese your data, Dan!