There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear
satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play one forwards, it installs Windows.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that they cannot be verified." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1865
... on College Park
Institutions of higher learning have no place for free thinkers. In fact, here you must pay a lot to be allowed to think like everyone else.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
... on Everything
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject." -- Winston Churchill
"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want
is also big enough to take away everything you have." -- Davy Crockett
"Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good."
-- Charles Chaput
I slept, and dreamed that life is beauty; I woke, and found that life is duty.
Brief Amici Curiae of Experts in Computer Science,
In re: National Security Letter, Under Seal v. Holder
(2014-04-01, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; amicus unsealed 2014-05-30)
Whither Excellence?
(2013-09-21) A 2011 invited essay on our trajectory at College Park that the Faculty Voice will
neither accept, reject, request a revision or explain its silence.
The Halperin legacy
(2010-05-17) Years of neglect made the case for merging one declining college with one weak college in hopes of salvaging one winner. This article sketches what an objective review might have found had campus leaders followed their own rules before making new appointments and organizational changes.
Data woes in CMPS
(2009-08-18) A report to the dean which documents how much the college policy of willful ignorance
on data and analysis costs us in student outcomes.
To really lie you need Wikipedia (2007) Consumers already know to be wary of random assertions they find on the web. The Wikipedia entry for "John Lott" gives a classic example of why consumers should be not only careful to check the assertions they find on the web, but also the quality and policies of the source.