Didn’t we have this exact same Showcase vs. Showdown discussion in the comments of the last Price is Right article (which I assume was written by Teti)?

Maybe you should be more suspicious. After seeing (and paying for) the bullshit instructor-authored books my daughter was required to buy at her university, let’s just say I have a mixed opinion of college professors!

I’m a community college instructor, and my goal has always been to make books for my classes as affordable as possible. My college (and any other that really cares about its students) is going more and more to “open educational resources” that are largely (but not exclusively) digital and entirely free.

I always used to participate in the live blogs in the old days. You couldn’t log in unless you had an onion tied to your belt.

Ok, get Ann Dowd for Random Roles NOW!

The ASCE has a concrete canoe competition every year.

Goddammit Kinja why did you suddenly (after 3 weeks) force me to link my transitioned Disqus account to a social media account??? Did this happen to anyone else? Fuck this shit.

Did you get them from the mushroom farm people? They have a great variety of fungi! I’ve bought ‘shrooms from them at the Boyne City market. I used to live in Petoskey and still get down there from time to time.

Some 13 year old out on the interwebs just learned how to use Photoshop.

Yeah, I did today for a comment from a year ago. I was really confused because without context (which of course is not given in the way Kinja previews responses) it looked like I was being called a right wing shill. So I had to dig around in old comments to figure out what the hell was going on. I briefly thought my…

My latest unpleasant Kinja discovery is that when you want to read a reply to one of your comments by clicking on your account doohickey in the upper right, it brings you to the story but not the specific comment. As if I’m going to scroll through all the responses to find it.

You’d think that along with being able to shoot silk out of your wrists and climb walls, that radioactive spider would have given you a better immune system.

As a proponent of the prosperity gospel, Osteen is practicing what he preaches. He isn’t going to make any money from these freeloading, mostly low income storm refugees. they aren’t going to come back next week and donate $100,000 to his church. Obviously, if they were favored by God they wouldn’t have been forced…

Not in my family, they didn’t (well, meat in general anyway). My great-grandmother’s contribution to holiday gatherings throughout the ‘70's was Corned Beef Lime Jello Salad.

You people just don’t know what you’re missing. The cottage cheese/Jello combination may sound gross, but it’s really good (at least if you don’t mind cottage cheese). The creaminess of the cottage cheese, brightness of the fruit, and strong punch of sort-of-fake fruit flavor from the Jello powder is a winner. My only…

Good luck on that metric system thing. In my college biology lab this week that includes a “reintroduction” to the metric system, I had a group of students answer the question, “How many millimeters are in a centimeter?” (This was with a metric ruler in front of them, and a list of metric prefixes.) Their answer? 8.

Maskatron action figure 

This video has triggered a memory of having an action figure with a removable face just like Oscar did. My brother and I were big fans of the show back then, so maybe that’s what it was...

I had the same experience with the transfer (no password) and have seen others mention it. Does anyone know if the “help” email that was given when the transition happened is still active and what it is? I’m pretty sure I could never find the original article that contained it.

Still hanging’ on! My account transferred just fine, I have to say.