Trading Cards and Action Figures

I stumbled on these a couple days ago. Check'em out at:

http://www.theory.org.uk/cards.htm

and

http://www.theory.org.uk/action.htm

As some point in the far distant future when we are all millionaires and have lots of free time to fritter away we should do the Great Basin Trading Cards. It would be sweet.

Professors we know or have known

I saw this list the other day whilst in the Blogosphere and thought that since we have been and will be dealing with various profs for the foreseeable future, that a quick reference guide would serve useful. It's a fun read. See if you can find your professors!

This is not the full version, I edited it for clarity and eliminated the various jokes about inappropriate professor-student relations.

Irritating Assistant Professors:

1. Professor Knows-He's-A-Fraud-And-Hopes-That-No-One-Will-Figure-It-Out,
2. Professor I'm-Above-This-Place-And-Should-Be-At-Harvard,
3. Professor Rebel-Without-A-Clue,
4. Professor Only-Teaches-His- Dissertation,
5. Professor Promising-Young-Man,
6. Professor Could-Teach-Well-But-Forced-To-Do-Submental-Things-To-Raise-Student-Evaluations.

Irritating Full Professors:

1. Professor Happy-Pills-And-Shock-Treatment-Improved-My-Personality
2. Professor Couldabeena-contenda,
3. Professor Exploits-Grad-Students-as-Cheap-Labor-in-his-Consulting-Business,
4. Professor I-Have-Five-Stories/Jokes-So-Get-Used-To-Hearing-Them-All-The-Time,
5. Professor I-Have-A-PhD-So-I-Shouldn't-Have-To-Learn-Anything-New-Ever-Again.
6. Professor I'm-THIS-Close-To-Retirement-So-I'm-Not-Even-Going-To-Try-Anymore
7. Professor Leave-Me-Alone-I'm-In-The-Middle-Of-A-Bitter-Divorce
8. Professor Midlife-Crisis
9. Professor Refuses-To-Retire-Due-To-Some-Combination-Of-Dementia-And-Never-Ending-Scheme- To-Maximize-Lucrative-Baby-Boomer-Retirement-Plan-No-Longer-Available-To-Younger-Faculty
10. Professor Tenure-Caused-My-Divorce,
11. Professor Twenty-Graduate-Students-Do-All-My-Research,
12. Professor Used-To-Be-Cool
13. Professor Uses-Tenure-To-Pursue-Hobbies-Or-Job-On-The-Side-Full-Time,

Irritating Professors That Could be Assistant or Full-

1. Professor Complains-About-Working-Conditions,
2. Professor Doesn't-Read
3. Professor European-Accent
4. Professor Everyone-Is-Out-To-Get-Me
5. Professor I-Could-and-Sometimes-Do-Recite-This-Lecture-in-my-Sleep,
6. Professor I-Have-Family-Drama
7. Professor I-Want-All-The-Students-To-Like-Me,-So-I'm-Going-To-Give-Easy-Tests
8. Professor Laughs-At-His-Own-Jokes,
9. Professor My-Jokes-Aren't-Funny-But-They're-All-I-Have,
10. Professor Only-Person-At-Tiny-College-To-Have-Ever-Published-A-Book-In-A-Printing-Of-More-Than-200,
11. Professor Oops-I-Lit-My-Hand-On-Fire
12. Professor Seriously-Tardy-With-Grading-Papers
13. Professor Stared-Into-The-Void-And-The-Void-Stared-Back!
14. Professor Your-Life-Means-Less-Than-My-Research
15. Professor Your-Work-Will-Never-Be-As-Important-As-Mine,
16. Professor Wears-The-Same-Ratty-Clothes-All-The-Time
17. Professor Who-Cares-What-The-Subject-Is?-Let's-Discuss-My-Politics

North Creek/ Escalante photos

Notice the circular adobe-lined hearth in the western (left) profile

Exposing more of the shelter

Working in the dark

Some major changes at the Frosty Shop...Grammar!

John Clark's vindication: "Snail-Suckers"
The screeners were pulling tons of these out

I'll leave all the technical discussions of provenience and chronology to Dave and Brad, but I thought I'd provide some photos I took while laboring at North Creek. My apologies for the quality of some of the photos as they were taken with my phone.