November 2007 – Page 6 – event mechanics

I can haz a pr0n site?

Steve from the “Event, Badiou, Lyotard” list alerted me to this. My old blog url has been pr0n-jacked.

Trying to be lazy these last two days. It is hard work being lazy. I snuck in some Kant and administrative work. I work tomorrow. Wrote a bad poem, lol! Inhalation: Sweetest sweet ass poison, Burns, relieves, focuses. Well, exhale, And we had the ciggies, at least.

faster phds

Via Craig at Theoria, the NYT has a story about PhDs in the US. The average student takes 8.2 years to get a Ph.D.; in education, that figure surpasses 13 years. Fifty percent of students drop out along the way, with dissertations the major stumbling block. At commencement, the typical doctoral holder is 33, an […]