I do what the VP tells me to do.

In essence, I lead the division, and the department chairs report to me. I also review tenure and promotion portfolios, faculty evaluations, schedules, hire new faculty, but mostly attempt to get stuff done in academia, which moves slowly and is often resistant to change. I guess I solve problems when I can.

I place my trust in the faculty and department chairs, and sometimes that trust is rewarded.

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near top dog.

I found there to be a lot of inertia in school education. As in, the primary purpose is to pass an exam, and the primary purpose of the exam is to pass and fail a certain percentage, so they can't tinker with the exam too much.

I don't know if that's like the resistance to change that the dean is referring to.

happy Friday, fam

Sigh, I respectfully disagree. In fact it is only out of respect that I'm writing this post. I don't really say anything that doesn't hold up at the highest levels.

I'd say that is incorrect; I think i'm the only one who has talked about nerds in a substantive way on the forum, which means they are not celebrated.
What say you?

If I had a penny for every time someone on this forum has said "well, you got one thing right.", when what they really mean is " I only understood one thing you've said or one aspect of what you wrote." I would have made hundreds of dollars.

I say that most of us here read lots of books, watch tons of movies from the popular to the obscure, listen to an absurd variety of different music, and make ridiculous puns and jokes. These are some nerd pursuits, and I believe we revel in these. Oh, and we use semicolons.

"Nerds" is a badge of honor.

And Happy Father's Day.

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Well first off I have read more books than at least 98% of the us population. I was an english major. My grandfather was an english major. My cousin who I am very close to was an english major. My uncle who died of cancer while working at chemical bank was an mba from georgetown who read a lot. and while I haven't read a lot lately and it shows, I was involved in the production of an obscure and very well received album this year via my cousins band and it could technically be said I was on tour earlier this summer. I have read a lot of obscure books.

I disagree with your definition of what a nerd is. But what I find surprising is the idea that "nerd" wouldn't be a badge of honor. I thought being a nerd was universally considered a positive and that nerds are universally celebrated. I thought that it is understood the first time someone said something like "lol, you don't even know how to disassemble this .c file into op codes neanderthal " 40 years ago, the idea that some idiot should be in charge because of "charisma" or "people skills" had been decisively defeated. I saw no reason to think different became most of the successful people around me are nerds.
So my perspective on this issue starts with the understanding that nerds are universally understood to be the primary sources of success, wealth and what is cool. They are taught from grade school, as I was, that one day those jerks making fun of you will be working for you. I think there is a lot of underlying viciousness there that isn't discussed enough.

Here is the album I was involved with and my cousins band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhCS8FgYkhI

I don't like nerds. I do like punks though. I also think that when someone is being critical of nerds they are especially exempt from grammar nazis, something we would also disagree on.

a nerd has a pocket protector for his pens. always wears glasses and usually has messy short hair.
he is anti social and has few friends. introverted. rarely ever has had a girlfriend and couldnt get one anyway unless she or he was just like him.

20 years back i used to call john a nerd to irritate him and it certainly did.

The glasses must have been, at least once, repaired with scotch tape or a paper clip; preferably both.

red, that 1st passage of the solo is imitated with slight deviation the 2nd go 'round

spliced at 2:43/2:44

wah wah that mini tremolo dive to punctuate the 2nd iteration Trust in my love!

heard it on Dee Snyder's Sunday morning syndicated radio program House of Hair this morning

What's the difference between a bunch of dead nerds and a ferrari?
Why do nerds like big bang theory so much?
Why didn't any of the nerds in my class go to the same college as me?

These are questions some are asking.

To me nerds will always be the guy who doesn't have enough time to pay attention to you because he wants to use his spare time to mess up llvm compilation .

That's not always true Ray. Those are just stereotypes.

Missouri and Kansas have been arch rivals from their beginnings as territories and then before that. But then again, to learn about the history of the kansas-missouri war in ernest you'd have to read some pretty obscure books. Yuck.

Thank you. I was trying to post something good. i'll be back after a break I guess. I think about nerds a lot. shrugs.

I plan to be asleep when the solstice comes around at 3:14MT. I assume the summer thread will start precisely then, though. See you there.

I think I have unique insights on this as someone who has both been a true nerd and also the opposite of that. And also raised by one. I could try exchanging the word nerd with intellectually gifted but i'm not allowed to talk about it I guess. Sorry.

See you there!