Link-Happy Prose
Today's sign the apocalypse is upon us:
The Daily got scooped by the Chron.
That's right, the Daily Northwestern, NU's beloved, ballyhooed, prize-winning student newspaper. Today's NYOU section of the Daily featured a story on Justin Berzon, a Medill senior with a plan for rebuilding the World Trade Center site. Problem is, the Northwestern Chronicle, NU's most-despised, -lampooned, -inaccurate (conservative, of course) rag, ran essentially the same story in last week's edition. Yes, folks -- the Chron.
Sure, the Daily story was better written and overall a generally superior story, and technically the Chron didn't really score such a scoop for itself, being that Berzon's design was profiled on 5 Feb. by Deroy Murdock, a Web columnist for the National Review.
Yet this has to be a great embarrassment and disgrace to the once-proud Daily. What makes it all the worse is that nearly a week elapsed between the Chron's story and today's NYOU feature, meaning the folks at the Daily had plenty of time to scrap the article to avoid redundancy. Furthermore, it suggests that the Daily is, inexcusably and pathetically, relying on the Chron as a source of news. *Sigh*
In other news . . .
Today I was complimented on my Czech by a native speaker and succeeded in my endeavor to print off all 127 pages of typewritten research notes for my thesis using the Medill computer lab. My tentative plan for today had been to begin poring back over that so as to craft a thesis for my thesis. However, given my general inclination toward putzing around on the computer, and news that kickball will be played tonight at 11, it appears doubtful so much progress will be made. Sure, there's always tomorrow, but that's not exactly a useful scholarly philosophy to adopt, particularly if I 1) wish to complete the first 10 or so pages due to my adviser two weeks from tomorrow or 2) intend to finish the entire 60- to 80-page thesis in time for the 16 May deadline. The sad thing is, I had felt like I was well ahead of the game and of my peers in the thesis seminar, having completed my research comparatively early, yet I don't really feel like I'm at all in front of things with this. But, hopefully, like most things, it's just a matter of me working intensively for several hours to hammer out the structure and some sort of fairly detailed outline, from which the thesis itself will be written rather expeditiously.
Also today, I happened to discover that the ever-witty and underappreciated Dave Barry, like me (and seemingly everyone these days), has a blog.
Finally, the theme of today's post was "Alexander learns to create links with html", in the unlikely event you didn't pick up on my link-happy prose.
Ziggy played guitar . . .
The Daily got scooped by the Chron.
That's right, the Daily Northwestern, NU's beloved, ballyhooed, prize-winning student newspaper. Today's NYOU section of the Daily featured a story on Justin Berzon, a Medill senior with a plan for rebuilding the World Trade Center site. Problem is, the Northwestern Chronicle, NU's most-despised, -lampooned, -inaccurate (conservative, of course) rag, ran essentially the same story in last week's edition. Yes, folks -- the Chron.
Sure, the Daily story was better written and overall a generally superior story, and technically the Chron didn't really score such a scoop for itself, being that Berzon's design was profiled on 5 Feb. by Deroy Murdock, a Web columnist for the National Review.
Yet this has to be a great embarrassment and disgrace to the once-proud Daily. What makes it all the worse is that nearly a week elapsed between the Chron's story and today's NYOU feature, meaning the folks at the Daily had plenty of time to scrap the article to avoid redundancy. Furthermore, it suggests that the Daily is, inexcusably and pathetically, relying on the Chron as a source of news. *Sigh*
In other news . . .
Today I was complimented on my Czech by a native speaker and succeeded in my endeavor to print off all 127 pages of typewritten research notes for my thesis using the Medill computer lab. My tentative plan for today had been to begin poring back over that so as to craft a thesis for my thesis. However, given my general inclination toward putzing around on the computer, and news that kickball will be played tonight at 11, it appears doubtful so much progress will be made. Sure, there's always tomorrow, but that's not exactly a useful scholarly philosophy to adopt, particularly if I 1) wish to complete the first 10 or so pages due to my adviser two weeks from tomorrow or 2) intend to finish the entire 60- to 80-page thesis in time for the 16 May deadline. The sad thing is, I had felt like I was well ahead of the game and of my peers in the thesis seminar, having completed my research comparatively early, yet I don't really feel like I'm at all in front of things with this. But, hopefully, like most things, it's just a matter of me working intensively for several hours to hammer out the structure and some sort of fairly detailed outline, from which the thesis itself will be written rather expeditiously.
Also today, I happened to discover that the ever-witty and underappreciated Dave Barry, like me (and seemingly everyone these days), has a blog.
Finally, the theme of today's post was "Alexander learns to create links with html", in the unlikely event you didn't pick up on my link-happy prose.
Ziggy played guitar . . .
posted by Alexander Dubcek | 23:17
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