Detached, bite-sized yippity-yap
Sep 12th, 2011 by hck1
Monday
Cornell Abroad In France & French Speaking…
Cornell Abroad In Australia & New Zealand
(Just remember that if you go abroad, I expect both post cards and blog entries!)
Dilmun Hill Farm Stand
Zen Meditation Practice
Tuesday
From Fruit Flies To Flying Robots: The Present…
2001: A Space Odyssey
Positive Psychology: Increase Your Happiness
Wednesday
Writing Through The Rough Spots
Salsa Classes at Big Red Barn
Thursday
Coffee Hour
Sep 2nd, 2011 by hck1
Monday (Labor Day)
Casablanca
Downtown Ithaca to Host 9/11 Commemorative Exhibit (all month, actually)
Animal Legends: From the Trojan Horse to Godzilla
Tuesday
Do We Really Have Topological Insulators Yet? (I, for one, am dying to know)
Strengthen Your Interview Skills
Fear No Weevil (I don’t actually expect anyone to go to this–I just love the title.)
Wednesday
CU Music: Midday Music for Organ 9/7
Thursday
Cornell Abroad In The United Kingdom
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Story Of A Tribe…
Demonic Divine
Friday
September 11 Memorial
Super 8
Feb 14th, 2011 by hck1
Monday
Today is Valentine’s Day…buy someone something small and tell them they make your day brighter. The smile you get will be worth it.
Two-Day Designer Fashions Event (use your Cornell card and tell Dad that $300 charge was a text book)
NASA Stardust-NExT encounter with Comet Tempel 1 (how many times in your life will you get to see a spaceship collide with a comet?)
Tuesday
Info Session: Teach in China this summer
Wednesday
Writing Through the Rough Spots
Thursday
Art for Lunch: Unpacking the Nano
Reflections of the Egyptian Revolution (you should go to this if you can–Carolyn Witte ’12, is going to talk about what it was like to be there)
Friday
University Lecturer – What is Contemporary About Contemporary Fiction?
Beer & Cheese Pairing (21 and over, please)
Feb 7th, 2011 by hck1
Monday
Recyclemania (this actually runs through April, but kick-off on campus is today)
Cornell in Hollywood Information Session
Tuesday
Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club (Seriously. I want pictures of someone paddling on the lake in Feb)
The Harlem Globetrotters (Remember when they were on Scooby Doo? No? Damn I’m old.)
Wednesday
What’s Next? Egypt’s Revolution, where it came from and its implications for the region
Men’s Squash Meet (Have you ever seen Squash? No? Neither have I.)
Thursday
Friday
Public Viewing Night at the Fuertes Observatory (a romantic way to kick of Valentine’s Day weekend…)
Jan 31st, 2011 by hck1
Monday
Congratulations You’ve Got the Job: Now What?
Tuesday
Summer Study in Europe Infomation sessions Looking for something to do this summer?
Cornell University Genetic Ancestry “Swabbing/Sampling” Event This is really cool (though I will admit it does sound somewhat unsanitary). Drop by and get a free DNA profile…maybe you are related to The Queen. Or Ghengis Khan. Or maybe even…Elvis!
Wednesday
Thursday
The Stories Objects Tell: Life in Latin America Before Columbus
Annual Blood Drive Dream Factory/Cornell Lacrosse
Friday
Public Viewing Night at the Fuertes Observatory
The Social Network When one of you invents the next Facebook, please keep in mind that I would like to be played by Jenna Elfman in the movie adaptation.
Jan 24th, 2011 by hck1
Tuesday
Unpacking the Nano (at the Johnson museum)
Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club (I feel like this must be a mistake, but on the off chance that it isn’t, I will buy you a burrito if you can prove to me that you did this in January)
Wednesday
Aseismic Slip and Upper Plate Earthquakes in the Hellenic Subduction Zone (Translation: sometimes, there are earthquakes in Greece)
Thursday
Does Facebook, Texting, YouTube…Make You Stupid?
Friday
Welcome back, folks. Stay warm out there!
Nov 29th, 2010 by hck1
Monday
Share the Warmth (donate old coats, hats, and gloves to those in need)(Santa likes people who donate to charity)
Tuesday
How Rhinos Breathe: Building Conservation Partnerships Through Science (I got to hear a Rhino snore once. It was pretty cool.)
Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club (This seems like it would be chilly at best.)
Wednesday
CU Music: Midday Music for Organ (music for the holiday season)
Choosing a Sustainable Future: Ideas and Inspiration from Ithaca, NY
Ithaca Beer Co. & Taverna Banfi Educational Event
Thursday
Former Ambassador to Germany, Richard Burt, to Speak at Cornell (this might be interesting, given the recent WikiLeaks news)
Easy Rider – New Print! (A classic)
Friday
End Grain: A History of Wood Engraving (My dad would find this fascinating. You might use it to cure late semester insomnia…)
All-NITER 2010: Last Day of Classes!
ChristmaHanuKwanzaakah (concert)
Saturday
Nationally Ranked Women’s Ice Hockey Team’s Game to Benefit United Way (Did you know there are Olympians on the team?)
Nov 2nd, 2010 by hck1
Tuesday
Taking Time Off Before Graduate School (sidebar: consider this carefully. my “gap year” has lasted dangerously close to two decades)
Red Newt & Taverna Banfi Culinary Bounty Dinner
Wednesday
Trees and Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture (i love this title)
Need Connections? Learn How to Make Professional Connections before You Need Them
Thursday
NASA Spacecraft Comet Encounter (where else in the world are you going to see stuff like this in real time?)
Friday
America 2050: High-Speed Rail and the Reshaping of America (in 2050, I will be entirely too old to take the train, but you guys will sit next to George Jetson)(wait)(do you even know who George Jetson is?)
Oct 25th, 2010 by hck1
Monday
How Goes the Recovery? Challenges for the Nation, The Region and the Fed
Job-Search Strategies for Summer Positions
Vietnamese Cuisine Week at Cornell University
Tuesday
Dilmun Hill Student Farm market stand (your mother called, she wants you to eat more veggies)
The Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker’s Guide To Culture
Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club
Wednesday
Werner Pfeiffer: Book-Objects and Artist Books
CU Music: Midday Music for Organ
Thursday
Increasing Student Engagement using Clickers (I tried to clicker-train my dog, once…it didn’t really work.)
Scary Tales from Around the world
Friday
State of the University Address
Nightmare on Edgemoor Lane- Zombie Island
Women’s Polo Go cheer on Ali!
Oct 18th, 2010 by hck1
Monday
Friends of the Gorge Fall Foliage Hike
Orlando (sadly, this is not a two-hour ode to Mr. Bloom)
Tuesday
The Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker’s Guide To Culture
Paddling on Beebe Lake with Cornell Outing Club
Wednesday
“Too Big to Fail” Book Signing
“Too Big to Fail” – Andrew Sorkin ’99 on the Greatest Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression
Thursday
Cornell Campus Architecture Walk (I know this sounds boring, but I have done it and it’s actually rather cool–lots of stories about Ezra and AD White at the start of things)
Friday
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History
Dilmun Hill Ho Plaza Farm Market