At 04:57 PM 12/17/01, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > > >More than once during the past few weeks, I've found an unexpected package > >in my on-campus mailbox (...) > > >I've thrown away several mails that I received, specially when >they have a possibility of being propaganda.
Well, if it's a new book or something like that, it's worth keeping: even if I don't change texts, I often find useful stuff in other books that I can incorporate into my classes. Perhaps the biggest waste of postage and space I've seen this past semester had to be the company (Wiley, IIRC) who sent everybody in the department a box about the typical size used for a hardback book. Inside was a small pamphlet-size catalog of new books in a certain area (one not of interest to me). The rest of the box was filled with styrofoam peanuts. Luckily, someone had a use for said packing material, so as each person opened his or her box, we dumped the peanuts into a bag for that person. And, as I still use the overhead projector a lot (though I am slowly putting all my pictures and such on CD-ROM to use in a data projector), I can use boxes of that size to store transparencies and keep them more or less in order. (Though for some reason, I still find myself up in front of the class flipping through the dozens or hundreds of transparencies I have with me in search of the one that was *supposed* to be next in order . . . ) -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
