Schrobblehead wrote:Just out of curiosity... how much does the university pay attention to student evaluations of their professors?

Getting wisdom teeth out isn't that bad. I did get hiccups that lasted 5 days though.

Depends on the professor. If it's a new professor who's going up for tenure or promotion, they seriously expect good evals (especially if you're at an exclusively undergrad college/university that stresses good teaching).

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SkekTek wrote:Depends on the professor. If it's a new professor who's going up for tenure or promotion, they seriously expect good evals (especially if you're at an exclusively undergrad college/university that stresses good teaching).

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They do look creepy and dead inside.

My evals were probably ignored. I went to a university that stressed drinking alcohol and graduating at all, rather than graduating with a good education.

Schrobblehead wrote:They do look creepy and dead inside.

My evals were probably ignored. I went to a university that stressed drinking alcohol and graduating at all, rather than graduating with a good education.

Sounds like UVA... ooo, I'm gonna get in trouble from SOMEONE...

SkekTek wrote:Sounds like UVA... ooo, I'm gonna get in trouble from SOMEONE...

Nah... it was Michigan State

(aimed at someone-who-will-not-be-named)

I actually went to two schools, one an excellent school... we had a rhodes scholar my freshman year, the other (where I graduated) was a little lax on the academics, but I just used it to get a better gpa for getting into grad-school.

Schrobblehead wrote:Nah... it was Michigan State

(aimed at someone-who-will-not-be-named)

I actually went to two schools, one an excellent school... we had a rhodes scholar my freshman year, the other (where I graduated) was a little lax on the academics, but I just used it to get a better gpa for getting into grad-school.

I'm wit' dat. Went to Ohio State and Purdue, and was employed by Bowling Green State University in Ohio, so my opinion of Michigan schools is...well..

So, should I submit the stalker on DBH or as a daily?

SkekTek wrote:I'm wit' dat. Went to Ohio State and Purdue, and was employed by Bowling Green State University in Ohio, so my opinion of Michigan schools is...well..

So, should I submit the stalker on DBH or as a daily?

Daily. I'm not sure what criteria they use for picking the shirts, but based on some of the past dailies I think you have a good shot at it. Plus, if they don't accept it you haven't signed their agreement and they don't get their exclusive 60 day use period and you can still submit it to DBH.

Edit: plus, woot has printed one of yours and you've had a 4th place, so they probably appreciate that you're no amateur hack like me.

Schrobblehead wrote:Daily. I'm not sure what criteria they use for picking the shirts, but based on some of the past dailies I think you have a good shot at it. Plus, if they don't accept it you haven't signed their agreement and they don't get their exclusive 60 day use period and you can still submit it to DBH.

Edit: plus, woot has printed one of yours and you've had a 4th place, so they probably appreciate that you're no amateur hack like me.

I also had a 5th place and a 6th place... so I should be good. Hmm... maybe I should work on my amakihi.org website first though. They like quoting designer websites.

AttilaTheMom wrote:My lower ones were drilled out in pieces, the upper ones are still there.

Same here.

I lived on tomato soup, egg drop soup, and ice cream. I tried drinking Ensure for the nutrients, but that stuff was nasty! I lost my clot doing a salt water rinse that my dentist told me to do. >.<

SailorButterfly wrote:Same here.

I lived on tomato soup, egg drop soup, and ice cream. I tried drinking Ensure for the nutrients, but that stuff was nasty! I lost my clot doing a salt water rinse that my dentist told me to do. >.<

Okay, I'm supposed to get OVER my fear of the dentist this Friday, not make it worse! :O

I should be fine, tho.

SkekTek wrote:Okay, I'm supposed to get OVER my fear of the dentist this Friday, not make it worse! :O

I should be fine, tho.

You really should be...my recovery time was non-eventful...I don't think I even took the vicodin they gave me. The only stories you hear are the bad stories...the good ones aren't that interesting

no1 wrote:

No, it most definitely is NOT safe... And I want the vicodin... it's fun stuff. Ah, oxycodone... how I love thee..

Schrobblehead wrote:Daily. I'm not sure what criteria they use for picking the shirts, but based on some of the past dailies I think you have a good shot at it. Plus, if they don't accept it you haven't signed their agreement and they don't get their exclusive 60 day use period and you can still submit it to DBH.

Edit: plus, woot has printed one of yours and you've had a 4th place, so they probably appreciate that you're no amateur hack like me.

I think you're mistaken about the sixty day thing. By submitting it you give them rights for a time- it may not be as long as 60 days, but the act of giving it to them to consider means you can't just start printing it, or submit it elsewhere (I just don't know the length of time they claim rights for).

Maybe it's on the what is woot page?

Boy, a weird thing happened earlier this evening.

When I submit an entry, I usually keep the tab open, so that I can link to the entry page, and copy the image source info easily, etc.

On Friday, I submitted my daughter Laura's design of the Kitty for her- well over a hundred votes now, deserves about 500 more ;^)

Anyway, I kept the window open. At some point this evening, either she or my wife, or I, apparently refreshed the page, while I was logged in.
It resubmitted the design, only under my name! There isn't any submit button on that page. There wasn't any link to my hard drive where the design resides. I don't grasp how that could happen.

Anyway, there's a lesson there- if multiple people may submit designs from the same computer, don't leave that "Ribs! We've received your design!" page open, cause if you do, it might get resubmitted under a different account- or even the same account.

SkekTek wrote:I'll post it here for sure, but not convinced this is the derby for it. I want the text... here are some annoying phrases I have my lurker saying. I'll take any suggestions from the crowd:

1. Want coffee? How about me?
2. I got a joke, listen to this...
3. You married? Happy?
4. Hi!!! Hi again!
5. Did you see me wave?
6. I think I dropped a paper clip under your desk. Can I look?

I'm partial to Numbers 3, and 6.....

Webfoot08 wrote:Oh, the MILF thing. "Real Housewives of Orange County" had that as a recurrent theme until it got very old.

Until it got very old, or they got very old?

Josephus wrote:I think you're mistaken about the sixty day thing. By submitting it you give them rights for a time- it may not be as long as 60 days, but the act of giving it to them to consider means you can't just start printing it, or submit it elsewhere (I just don't know the length of time they claim rights for).

Maybe it's on the what is woot page?

It's not on that page, I have looked for it before (unless they changed it). But even if it is, that wouldn't necessarilly contractually bind you to giving them exclusive rights to anything. When you submit a daily you email it to them. It's more like showing your artwork at a gallery - the simple act of showing it doesn't mean you are bound to sell. The derby on the other hand, requires you to click a box agreeing to their contract which gives them exclusive rights. I am very confident that you can submit something for their consideration without being bound. That said, in their thread about bumping the payout to $1,000, they said they would promptly let you know if they don't want it so you can shop it elsewhere so it shouldn't be a problem anyways.

SkekTek wrote:Hi folks.

Here's the lurker design. Not going to submit it to this week's derby, since it's lacking in movement and therefore would probably get rejected. But I thought I'd share... Comments and suggestions appreciated. Obviously it's missing the text bubbles that would so totally make this design.

So - these are things NOT to do? I'll take that under advisement... been a while since i worked in an office with wimmin.....

kenney9226 wrote:Some cubicles look like this:

I think thats what we're getting when they "upgrade" our workspace..

Schrobblehead wrote:It's not on that page, I have looked for it before (unless they changed it). But even if it is, that wouldn't necessarilly contractually bind you to giving them exclusive rights to anything. When you submit a daily you email it to them. It's more like showing your artwork at a gallery - the simple act of showing it doesn't mean you are bound to sell. The derby on the other hand, requires you to click a box agreeing to their contract which gives them exclusive rights. I am very confident that you can submit something for their consideration without being bound. That said, in their thread about bumping the payout to $1,000, they said they would promptly let you know if they don't want it so you can shop it elsewhere so it shouldn't be a problem anyways.

Yeah, it isn't there. I know I've seen something about it though. You make complete sense.

My impression is that people have not been hearing promptly from them about designs, despite their promise.

don't know where I read that either.

sigh. I basically know nothing at all.

Patchitect wrote:I think thats what we're getting when they "upgrade" our workspace..

Heehehe... the "Flagrant System Error" is quite amusing. :-)

Patchitect wrote:I think thats what we're getting when they "upgrade" our workspace..

I'd prefer that phone to mine. I'd rather mine wouldn't ring.

Schrobblehead wrote:I'd prefer that phone to mine. I'd rather mine wouldn't ring.

I wish I had a crappy award.

kenney9226 wrote:Some cubicles look like this:

<cardboard cube>

Ovulating? My Goodness!, Kenney, you made my middle daughter's day. She's made an entire world out of cardboard, to the point that her grandmother wrapped up cardboard for her christmas present.

Thanks for the big grin!

SkekTek wrote:It's not finals week, though the semester is wrapping up. It's all the end-of-the-year meetings, issues, evaluations, etc... Plus dealing with donation of a car, new garage door, getting some trees cut down before they fall on the house, etc...

Oh yeah, and getting my wisdom tooth yanked on Friday. So don't count on me submitting in the next derby

oh joy. It's that time of year, isn't it? It's happening here, too. Hey, we just paid $500 to ultrasound the middle dog's bladder. That's on top of the usual chaos here. gah. I think we have to prove to the school system that my kids learned something this year, too.

As someone who has been on painkillers a lot, I think that you should definitely enter the derby while on painkillers for the wisdom teeth. And don't let them give you ibuprophen - you totally deserve the good meds! percocet = funny here.

SkekTek wrote:I'm wit' dat. Went to Ohio State and Purdue, and was employed by Bowling Green State University in Ohio, so my opinion of Michigan schools is...well..

So, should I submit the stalker on DBH or as a daily?

oooh, crossover lives! I have a friend who has taught at Bowling Green for at least 10 years...

I went to Skidmore myself, which has increased its standing significantly. Our evals were definitely taken into account. I was a TA for a class, and they cared about our TA evals, too.

dontwantaname wrote:I can make you one and mail it.
I've got lots of woot boxes to make it out of.
I don't know how, since I sware I don't buy anything..somehow there is always a shirt or something on the way.

Heck - i could make you one to print out on your own printer.. how crappy is that?

I just found this and thought I would post it. Ashley Simpson has her own line of shirts. Somehow I doubt she designed them herself. I particularly loved the name they gave the photo file.

Schrobblehead wrote:I just found this and thought I would post it. Ashley Simpson has her own line of shirts. Somehow I doubt she designed them herself. I particularly loved the name they gave the photo file.

Does that say Ashface??

SkekTek wrote:Okay, I'm supposed to get OVER my fear of the dentist this Friday, not make it worse! :O

I should be fine, tho.

shan24 wrote:You really should be...my recovery time was non-eventful...I don't think I even took the vicodin they gave me. The only stories you hear are the bad stories...the good ones aren't that interesting

You should be fine. Even with what I went through, I'm still not afraid of my dentist.
A coworker of mine had all 4 of his wisdom teeth removed with no problems. My husband had all 4 of his surgically removed, and aside from a rough night recovering, was fine.

SkekTek wrote:I'll post it here for sure, but not convinced this is the derby for it. I want the text... here are some annoying phrases I have my lurker saying. I'll take any suggestions from the crowd:

1. Want coffee? How about me?
2. I got a joke, listen to this...
3. You married? Happy?
4. Hi!!! Hi again!
5. Did you see me wave?
6. I think I dropped a paper clip under your desk. Can I look?

I don't know why, but I like #5. It reminds me of something an annoying guy in my office would probably say.

daedalusknight wrote:Heehehe... the "Flagrant System Error" is quite amusing. :-)

I much prefer to see 'flagrant' as opposed to 'fragrant'...

"does anyone else smell something... burning?"

AttilaTheMom wrote:I much prefer to see 'flagrant' as opposed to 'fragrant'...

"does anyone else smell something... burning?"

EHeh.... I don't think I've ever had a computer burst into flames... yet... but I know a few guys who have some horror stories... apparantly it's a smell you can never forget.

Josephus wrote:Boy, a weird thing happened earlier this evening.

When I submit an entry, I usually keep the tab open, so that I can link to the entry page, and copy the image source info easily, etc.

On Friday, I submitted my daughter Laura's design of the Kitty for her- well over a hundred votes now, deserves about 500 more ;^)

Anyway, I kept the window open. At some point this evening, either she or my wife, or I, apparently refreshed the page, while I was logged in.
It resubmitted the design, only under my name! There isn't any submit button on that page. There wasn't any link to my hard drive where the design resides. I don't grasp how that could happen.

Anyway, there's a lesson there- if multiple people may submit designs from the same computer, don't leave that "Ribs! We've received your design!" page open, cause if you do, it might get resubmitted under a different account- or even the same account.

Good tip. Didn't think that you could do that on the same computer. I have a 5-year old that loves to click buttons too.

BTW- Jos, your sig looks, uhm, different, if you scroll down in the sig so only the bottom shows.

daedalusknight wrote:EHeh.... I don't think I've ever had a computer burst into flames... yet... but I know a few guys who have some horror stories... apparantly it's a smell you can never forget.

I've had a fan motor burn out and toast the CPU.. its quiet an unpleasant scent.....

That never washes out,, no matter how hard you scrub, pumice, scrape, sour, scald...

Patchitect wrote:I've had a fan motor burn out and toast the CPU.. its quiet an unpleasant scent.....

That never washes out,, no matter how hard you scrub, pumice, scrape, sour, scald...

I've seen that on tom's hardware. They took the heat sink off of an AMD processor, then overclocked it, and it exploded.

SkekTek wrote:Depends on the professor. If it's a new professor who's going up for tenure or promotion, they seriously expect good evals (especially if you're at an exclusively undergrad college/university that stresses good teaching).

Updated lurker!



Now with more creepiness.

At Dickinson they keep stressing the evals....apparently they are directly related to pay (and tenure for the newer professors).

SkekTek wrote:Good tip. Didn't think that you could do that on the same computer. I have a 5-year old that loves to click buttons too.

BTW- Jos, your sig looks, uhm, different, if you scroll down in the sig so only the bottom shows.

dang, it, um, does.

I'm going to try to send the slug pirate in to woot for a daily, so I took it off my sig while I work on it.

dontwantaname wrote:I can make you one and mail it.
I've got lots of woot boxes to make it out of.
I don't know how, since I sware I don't buy anything..somehow there is always a shirt or something on the way.

llo - we get a lot of Amazon boxes and products for review. I filled up the minivan's trunk (all the way to the roof) with cardboard during our last dump run, and that was the stuff I hadn't recycled normally. It also didn't include the stuff my middle one made into toys.

Josephus, I'm sure one of your kiddos could make you a cardboard award!

daedalusknight wrote:EHeh.... I don't think I've ever had a computer burst into flames... yet... but I know a few guys who have some horror stories... apparantly it's a smell you can never forget.

my husband's seen things like that, and I've heard it as tech support. The closest I came was when my power cables started melting. I had 3 melt. Eeeeep. Got the laptop replaced under warranty and (knock wood) it didn't happen again, thank goodness.

As a tech support/IT family, we have more than our fair share of horror stories. But we also have more than our fair share of computers, printers, and accessories.

<shhhh: don't look - I'm sneaking some out for next week's homeschool coop to dismantle them...>