The EngSoc forum was on Thursday and the Renison forum was on Friday. The only thing exceeded by the lack of student interest was the lack of student interest. The ratio of knowing about what you were talking to not was about nine to one.
Four people asked questions in both forums combined, not counting me and the questions I asked.
Continue reading "Feds election EngSoc and Renison forums"Yah, dat right. Dere's a new Caribbean restaurant comin ta town.
Heh heh. Rainbow Cuisine, the jamaican restaurant on King St. East in Kitchener, is opening a restaurant at University Plaza, 140 University Avenue West.
It is called "Rainbow Cuisine's Jamaican Jerk."
Continue reading "New Caribbean restaurant "Jamaican Jerk""Here are two more data on usage of The Armoury.
Continue reading "Armoury 29 Jan — data and story"Campaigning in Feds elections started today and today was the first forum, the campus media forum.
There were many problems with it, some of them common with past forums and others are more unusual. I acknowledge that I could have influenced some of these things and that I did not is my own failure.
Continue reading "Feds Media Forum criticism 28 Jan"Last week I wrote about Tufte's pamphlet on The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint in Tufte's PowerPoint pamphlet.
I finished reading it. It was great.
Continue reading "Finished Tufte's pamphlet"Tomorrow is the Feds Elections media forum. Today is a snow day.
By tomorrow we must be prepared to perform in the forum.
This year and last year I wrote about improvements to forums and coverage in Feds elections.
Continue reading "Preparing for Feds elections media forum"There is an observation about the stable existence of universities that describes a number of institutions that have existed continuously since the sixteenth century and all but a few of them are universities. Those few include the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the legislature of Iceland, and the legislature of the Isle of Man.
Continue reading "The longevity of universities"We had our second match this evening and lost. We are now one and one with +1 goal differential.
Continue reading "Futsal A11 Strength Game #2"An idea that I talked with someone about three years ago is one that would give the Bombshelter more space and provide more lounge space for students. It would also address financial problems in the Feds.
Continue reading "Making Bomber bigger cheaply"Compared to a similar time of day on Wednesday, Saturday in The Armoury was a third to a half as crowded.
Continue reading "Armoury usage Sat 24 Jan"I recently received The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Rolfe Tufte. Tufte is the author of at least seven books including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Continue reading "Tufte's PowerPoint pamphlet"Norma Kozhaya of Montreal Economic Institute prepared a study relating tuition fees and university enrolment. In the study she writes, "Data from various Canadian provinces show no direct relationship between lower fees and greater university access."
Continue reading "Study compares tuition fee and enrolment in provinces"CECS has communication problems both externally and internally. I spoke with Feds VP Ed Liam McHugh-Russell last weekand we both agree on this.
Complaining about co-op is a popular pastime at UW. Many of the complaints are valid and rotted in mutual ignorances between the department and the students.
Continue reading "CECS and communication"What things would you look at to compare a model of growth in university attendance based on fall winter operation compared to full-year operation.
Continue reading "Operating universities all-year-round"I was in The Armory (CIF fitness centre) this afternoon. It was the first time I had been there in the late afternoon. It was pretty crowded.
Continue reading "CIF Fitness Centre Usage 21 Jan 2004"A while ago I found out that a friend from secondary school is now a honky tonk musical cowboy. His music name is Matt Masters.
Continue reading "Matt Masters and the Gentlemen of the Rodeo"Number 14 is a pretty par three which requires only that you ignore the pond and fountain, and forget about number 13.