Comments on: DAVID

By: Marekatt

Marekatt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:43:31 +0000

…and he huffed, and he puffed!

By: Leonardo Farroco

Leonardo Farroco — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:27:11 +0000

This picture was taken in a favela in Rio de Janeiro during a police operation. The boy is a resident of the slum and, as you can see, many people don’t like the police in the city. o.o The picture won the ‘Prêmio Esso de Fotografia’, the most important journalism prize in Brazil in the year 2005. The photographer is Evandro Monteiro.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:03:20 +0000

@meglet. I swear there are so many students who believe–or hope–that citation is only some weird exercise that comes up in the non-creative-writing part of English class. It seems to be a shock to them that one might have to use it in another class, let alone ‘real life’. Sigh. Every year I have to call someone to my office, and beat the fear of…dissection…into them.

By: HairySexyTroll

HairySexyTroll — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:49:37 +0000

Endnote=teh shizzle.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:39:02 +0000

Meh, I use Noodlebib- the only one my school’s got.

By: meglet

meglet — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:37:24 +0000

I would marry endnote if i could, but nobody else i know uses it even though i tell them how awesome it is… *sigh*

By: Xenobiologista

Xenobiologista — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:10:18 +0000

If you’re at a big university it’s quite likely your institution has a subscription to a citation manager like RefWorks or EndNote. If you have to do a lot of writing your life will be SO much easier if you learn to use them.

By: pittypat

pittypat — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:55:06 +0000

Discussion? Discussion? We beat this puppy to the ground. To the ground!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:50:56 +0000

Yes! That would have been perfect.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:20 +0000

So, like, the really old people in Europe?

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:28:44 +0000

For this one, if poster format was used, I’d suggest:

STRATEGY:
David needs to rethink his.

By: Heintraag

Heintraag — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:56:22 +0000

In this case the poster format was chosen to emphasise the kid looking like David. But it could have been a simple caption just as wel i agree on that. What amazes me is that people actually have a discussion on this LOL

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:57:28 +0000

Oooh!! It’s a Rib Tickler.

By: MetallicaFan

MetallicaFan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:41:18 +0000

This kid has more ribs than a restaurant in Texas.

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:01:00 +0000

Oh pelvic to someone who cares.

By: meglet

meglet — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:01:40 +0000

@Vikinggal I’m in engineering and you’d be amazed at what some people think passes for citations, and nobody seems to pull them up on it either, in spite of it being hammered into us from first year onwards…
the other day i was given a group member’s part to collate into our main report and she hadn’t done ANY in text referencing. None at all. I asked her to send it through to me and she sent me the bibliography again, she had no idea what i was talking about. this is in a final year subject too, and all we have to do is harvard refs!
APA is freaking ridiculous and surely just a money-making exercise, i used to do psychology… how many different ways can you italicise a citation?

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:52:34 +0000

DWN how in God’s name did you miss *this* cue

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:47:07 +0000

In my experience/observations, they will most likely either suggest you go back to the classroom that you student-taught in, or they supply a willing master teacher who is willing to work with you.

By: IvanTheMildlyAnnoying

IvanTheMildlyAnnoying — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:03:43 +0000

No need to be so sternum about it!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:51:15 +0000

Yes, I’ve heard it’s pretty brutal. The whole point is to spend a semester learning how to research properly while gathering the necessary information for your exit project. It’s more difficult for me because I don’t have my own classroom yet. I don’t know how that’ll be handled.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:07:04 +0000

What? My post got erased last night.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:58:23 +0000

Research class? Oh, yes, you’re in for it! But you will have lots of PK empathy along the way!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:55:24 +0000

Well, aside from the class I’m taking this summer the only things I have to do is the Research class that leads up to the final Exit Project. I have a feeling that all the citing I’ve been avoiding is going to catch up to me.

By: SwampWillow

SwampWillow — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:54:10 +0000

Bwah-haa-haaa-haaaa!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:50:35 +0000

Which is why I tell students I don’t care which format they use–as long as they are consistent AND legal.
What ever happened to teaching about citation in high school?

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:43:59 +0000

I have to write a paper in APA this week. Blurgh. MLA changes all the time too, it’s impossible, and impossibly uninteresting.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:18:48 +0000

MLA’s pretty insane. But the APA keeps changing every darned year!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:18:09 +0000

@ Jane St. Clair. So you aren’t in the supermax. You are still serving pretty serious time. You’ll get the lingo like an immigrant!

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:16:33 +0000

I’m pretty sure I’m going to start my MFA in December, but I’m gonna do it in creative writing so I don’t have to cite anything MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA goodbye MLA!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:16:12 +0000

I managed to get myself released to the halfway house, eventually… But some people enjoy the maximum security penitentiary!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:12:41 +0000

Hey, I’m getting my Master’s degree! It’s just that a Master’s in Education is not quite the same thing.

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:09:30 +0000

Done time? More like life without parole …

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:55:21 +0000

That’s the thing which makes me think pittypat has done time in the post-BA education lockup!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:53:15 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do it from memory, I’d need a style guide right next to me.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:45:36 +0000

You do that WAY too well! Another survivor of grad school?

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:40:31 +0000

It’s hard to explain, but you really have to think what’s going to best fit your caption. With poster the emphasis is on the main word with the humor coming from how you define it below. I think a simple caption saying, “David needs to rethink his strategy” would have gotten the point across in a clearer way. Right now I’m distracted because of the formatting. I’m not as picky as some on the poster format, but I think the breaking news format is almost never funny (except the one Diss did the other day).

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:29:51 +0000

2. Pitt T. Pat, “The Paradox of Pitiful Poster Presentations” (paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of LOL Abusage, Pittsburgh, PA, June 19–22, 2009).

By: Starling

Starling — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:23:16 +0000

The peeps in Europe, ya know, the ones who actually met the Nazis, are a heck of a lot less likely to throw that kinda phrase around.

By: wargleble

wargleble — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:53:13 +0000

How the rest of the world sees Obama……….

By: meglet

meglet — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:49:58 +0000

awesome pittypat, total class
where’s your name though?

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:31:45 +0000

1. Heintraag, “‘David’: Needs to rethink his strategy,” in The Chicago Style Guide to Poster LOL Abusage, ed. Meg L. Et and Leader O.T.R. Emperor (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 1-102.

By: meglet

meglet — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:19:55 +0000

what we need is the chicago style guide to lols

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:08:01 +0000

Well yes, yes he is. A Mighty Kids Meal® with 8 pc McRiblets!

By: pittypat

pittypat — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:00:13 +0000

Not tibia pest, but what kind of numbskull comment is that?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:58:34 +0000

I dunno man. I blame Jerry Seinfeld.

By: IvanTheMildlyAnnoying

IvanTheMildlyAnnoying — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:54:22 +0000

That’s always been a bone of contention.

By: dick

dick — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:19:31 +0000

Why is it when people are annoyed by common mistakes they’re referred to as fill-in-the-blank nazis?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:28:31 +0000

I just don’t understand the poster nazi attitude I keep reading here. What’s the diff?

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:11:09 +0000

He can has cheezburger?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:50:21 +0000

Sometimes I get humerus with you.