@indigo Pre-typewriter era? :o teach me your yoga secrets.
// @matigo @tomas
@tomas You made it through medical school without it? :o I didn't survive an art's degree without it…
@kdfrawg That great lubricator.
I believe it was Pavarotti who told an anecdote of how Beniamino Gigli once asked him to bring him some of his mum's coffee with "just a drop of brandy" in it to get him ready for a performance.
@kdfrawg We pay this person.
Somehow I think I'd be better off self-studying and just paying for the silly exam…
@matigo Electric blankets, electric entertainment, what next? Electric chairs?
// @pamela
Lesson description: red and rosé wines of the Loire, Bordeaux, and South-West France.
Homework: fill in the table.
Half of the table contains white wine appellations.
Either have no structure (and no textbook so vague as to be infuriating and confusing) and let me do the research completely independently, or have some notion of organisation…this half-arsed attempt at creating an assignment is the kind of thing that drives me crazy.
@tomas I introduced a professor to LaTeX and beamer, and he instantly wanted to convert all his course materials.
Just think, automatic bibliography and flawless cross-referencing!
An hour of prodding and I think I've found a way to crawl the Uni of Michigan's open-access books in PDF form.
The gif "image view" versions would've taken a lot less time, but the resolution is abysmal.
They use a rather confusing cache method to display an embedded PDF…