Kip Austin Hinton

I appreciate the general point of Hanson's title: adjuncts (like me) deserve more credit. But this article seems less about thanksgiving than about his beef with tenured professors and student protesters. He accuses us (the student protesters) of not caring about injustice, and slaims we should not be protesting tuition hikes." Long-term, tuition increases will push poor and middle-class students out of UC; the only poor students at UC will be those few who get a generous scholarship. That shift is what we mean when we say it will be like a private university. In protest, we exercise our first amendment right to speech and assembly. Thank you, Mr. Hanson, for describing it as a "riot." I guess students should pay whatever the state and university ask, and if we can't afford it, we don't deserve an education. I am a TA at a UC, and an adjunct at SMC. Compared to low-wage workers at Wal-Mart or foodservice, I am paid very well - several times the minimum wage. ...

"France, a rich and geographically accessible country, has had people come to it from every corner of the globe. Many have immigrated and successfully found a home here, despite efforts to the contrary by the native population... In France, four and a half million foreigners have come from the Maghrab, from sub-Saharan Africa, from Yugoslavia, Spain, and Italy..." (Memmi, p. 10) "Similarly, the Americans, a mixture of people from everywhere, are second to none for the beauty of their babies, the creativity of their intellectuals, the know-how of their technicians and their business executives. Thus, the lesson is obvious: If we would maintain our superiority, we msut defeat purity and ensure adulteration by others." (p. 15) "I would instead reaffirm that there really does not exist a colonial relationship in whch racism is not only present but intimately linked to that relation." (p. 35) "they have always been convinced that the colonized should than...

to: hp customer service from: kip austin hinton subject: why are hp trackpads on the left side of the computer? i have a dv5000 (made in 2006). the trackpad is centered, equal distance from the left and right sides of the computer. all older models i have found had their trackpads centered. i was thinking of a new laptop. but on your website, all the models i'm interested in have the trackpad on the left side. i don't mean slightly to the left - one edge of the trackpad lines up precisely with the center, and 100% of the trackpad is to the left of that edge. at bestbuy, it was very awkward for me to reach and use the new hp trackpads, because i am right handed (fun fact: the majority of humans are right handed). to be specific: i type with my right fingers on the right side of the keyboard, so if i want to push the "enter" or "delete" button, i use my right hand, never my left hand; if i plug in a mouse, i place that mouse on the right side of the computer, ...

in 1994, at ohio state university, i learned two important things: the depth of african american writers, and website design. the internet was still very young. most content was for tech nerds, the military-industrial complex, and usenet communities (dinosaurs left over from 1979). email, back then, required a program called eudora . and file-sharing required an archaic protocol called gopher . - i was studying literature. and realized that unless you were interested in the core canon of white male english-speaking authors -- shakespeare, dickens, whitman, frost, twain, hemingway (and lessers like bradbury, clarke, orwell, and asimov, who did science fiction, favored by those tech nerds) -- the "world wide web" (it was called by all three names then) was not for you. - in this context, an african studies professor at ohio state taught us about zora neale hurston , a black woman who wrote books in the 1930s. in the 1930s, if you were a rich white male in america, literature wa...

this is a good chart from the houston chronicle . it shows delegate counts. the relationship between counties, districts, votes, and delegates. - clinton wins some - district 26 is san antonio, and it doesn't matter that clinton won, because the delegate count comes out as a tie (2 - 2). district 27, east rio grande valley, clinton won by a landslide. but in the delegate count, she gets only a small advantage (2 - 1). - obama wins some - district 13 is downtown houston, obama won in a landslide and gets a huge delegate advantage (5 - 2). district 14 is austin, obama also gets a good advantage (5 - 3). - district 26 has about the same population as district 14. but in Austin, more people voted for a democrat two years ago. so they got a delegate bonus. the pattern extends throughout texas, and most of the districts turned out as close as district 26 or 27. this is a strange system, but it adds up to one thing. - clinton won a majority of the votes in about 90% of texas counties. ver...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html Hate Springs Eternal 'The bitterness of the fight for the Democratic nomination is, on the face of it, bizarre. Both candidates are smart and appealing. Why, then, is there so much venom out there?' - By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 11, 2008 - ... Both have progressive agendas (although I believe that Hillary Clinton is more serious about achieving universal health care, and that Barack Obama has staked out positions that will undermine his own efforts). Both have broad support among the party’s grass roots and are favorably viewed by Democratic voters. Supporters of each candidate should have no trouble rallying behind the other if he or she gets the nod. ...most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — ...

totino's ad campaign - okay, there are these commercials on TV about a thing called "totino's pizza rolls." apparently it is a very tiny hot pocket. the gimmick seems to be that kids can prepare this food themselves (not sure how this is any different from every other convenience food). of all the features these cubes have, the commercial focuses on taste as a selling point. obviously, frozen cubes of bleached white flour taste great no matter what. - so this kid microwaves a bag of these things, then serves them to his friends in the middle of the night. he warns they must be quiet, i guess to avoid waking his parents. but it turns out the cubes are so delicious his friends are unable to stay quiet. "i love totino's pizza rolls!" screams the first taster. - as screams erupt from everyone, the betrayed boy-chef expresses dismay at the punishment which will surely follow. oh, i jest. his parents will probably eat the cubes themselves after they come dow...