Wednesday, 18 January 2006

What I learned today

This may become an ongoing series…

  • Doing the same lecture two days in a row is a bit (ok, highly) disconcerting the first time you’ve ever done it.
  • Seminars are much less painful when you don’t do all of the talking.
  • It will be hard for Duke University Transit to find a blue canvas bag you think you left on one of their busses when it has been sitting in your living room the whole day.
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[Permalink] 1. Scott wrote @ Wed, 18 Jan 2006, 8:40 pm CST:

I had a lifetime of preparation for the two lecture thing. My grandaddy was a Baptist preacher. On occasion I got to see him “warm up” the sermon in the early service…the main service version always had more pulpit pounding and brow wiping. The crux of each was ALWAYS: Turn or Burn!

And yes, a 36 year old man with a PhD can use the term “grandaddy”...God bless the South.

 
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