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"My favorite obnoxious terms-of-service clause is in the license for AOL's instant messenger client. You're only allowed to use AIM for lawful purposes, so no pinging your friends about smoking up or scalping tickets. Also, turns out you can't say dirty words or obscene things over the service, which probably means most people can't talk about their bosses, last night's overtime loss, or that girl in fourth period." - Article here.
Hey all you adult-RPers using AIM and its chats! Guess your stuff ends here, right? ...Right?
Aw, geez. No one actually follows that crap. What the hell was AOL thinking?
I saw a dragonfly buzzing around outside the Production station when I was waiting for my train home. It was flying into the glass, trying to get into the platform area. Of course, it wasn't getting anywhere, but that didn't stop it from trying, whacking itself into the panes over and over. I was about to laugh at the silly little insect when I noticed a slight shimmer in the air behind it; it was attached to a long strand of a spider's web. My giggles turned into pity almost immediately - thankfully, it only took a few more buzzes for it to break free of the stuff and book it out of there. Spider was not getting his hands on the wee dragonfly!
I am going to be writing a ton - again - this semester. So sick of this shit, but my schedule won't fit anything else. Thankfully, semantics so far looks exactly like MACM 101 - the first assignment is all set theory. I'm sure we'll get to the bit where language actually fits in eventually.
I've never had a professor so damned uptight about plagiarism than my first-language acquisition one. Apparently with our final paper, we need to a) submit two paper copies of the paper, b) submit an e-mail copy that he may check against one of those stupid websites (although he will apparently notify us if he decides to do so - I will object if he does), and c) have us attach a handwritten almost-essay-like paragraph of bullshit to the front of the paper, stating that we know the consequences of plagiarising and haven't done so, etc. I mean, wow. He already thinks we're all damn cheaters or something.
Canadian studies has a lot of reading to do - fair enough, as it's a distance ed course - and four essays, most under 1200 words. Not too much of a problem, I don't think, but it'll be grating to have to fit it in with the other two writing-heavy courses.
Discourse analysis is the last writing-heavy one. I have no idea what it's about yet, when our assignments or due, or what the research paper topic is on; maybe I'll find out tomorrow.
Hey all you adult-RPers using AIM and its chats! Guess your stuff ends here, right? ...Right?
Aw, geez. No one actually follows that crap. What the hell was AOL thinking?
I saw a dragonfly buzzing around outside the Production station when I was waiting for my train home. It was flying into the glass, trying to get into the platform area. Of course, it wasn't getting anywhere, but that didn't stop it from trying, whacking itself into the panes over and over. I was about to laugh at the silly little insect when I noticed a slight shimmer in the air behind it; it was attached to a long strand of a spider's web. My giggles turned into pity almost immediately - thankfully, it only took a few more buzzes for it to break free of the stuff and book it out of there. Spider was not getting his hands on the wee dragonfly!
I am going to be writing a ton - again - this semester. So sick of this shit, but my schedule won't fit anything else. Thankfully, semantics so far looks exactly like MACM 101 - the first assignment is all set theory. I'm sure we'll get to the bit where language actually fits in eventually.
I've never had a professor so damned uptight about plagiarism than my first-language acquisition one. Apparently with our final paper, we need to a) submit two paper copies of the paper, b) submit an e-mail copy that he may check against one of those stupid websites (although he will apparently notify us if he decides to do so - I will object if he does), and c) have us attach a handwritten almost-essay-like paragraph of bullshit to the front of the paper, stating that we know the consequences of plagiarising and haven't done so, etc. I mean, wow. He already thinks we're all damn cheaters or something.
Canadian studies has a lot of reading to do - fair enough, as it's a distance ed course - and four essays, most under 1200 words. Not too much of a problem, I don't think, but it'll be grating to have to fit it in with the other two writing-heavy courses.
Discourse analysis is the last writing-heavy one. I have no idea what it's about yet, when our assignments or due, or what the research paper topic is on; maybe I'll find out tomorrow.
