Showing posts with label threshold concepts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label threshold concepts. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

"A hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms"

Miserable sods. I'm alone in the building, working on Threshold Concepts. There's been a meeting complete with a posh buffet in one of the classrooms, and all the lovely food is locked in there, taunting me, waiting to be thrown in the bin. It won't be long before my friend Richard arrives from Glasgow: he can smell a buffet from miles away and will happily chew through a door to get to one.

Which reminds me of one of my favourite jokes:
Q. What do you call a fat goth?
A. Vampire the Buffet Slayer.

Thankyewverymuchladiesangennelmen, still available for weddings, birthdays and barmitzvahs.

(Quote is by that cynical diplomat of the Golden Age, Henry Cabot Lodge).

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Displacement activity

Things to do today: read some incredibly boring papers on Threshold Concepts. Sort the entries for the Much Wenlock Olympian Games (helped inspire Baron de Coubertin to refound the international version - places still available) and do some proper work. But it's too hot…

Meanwhile, here's a lovely bit of melancholic Australian chamber-pop from one of my favourites: The Paradise Motel.