Sunday, July 05, 2020
Understandable ObscureBot
This is completely irrelevant but amusing. The ObscureBots are back in action.
Here's the latest Obscure Search:
bing.com/search?srch_type=0&q=water profing companies in turkey
In this case I can actually see why it's working.
Water and companies are common everywhere, not peculiar to this blog.
Before Erdogan turned into a crazy neocon, I wrote lots of items praising Erdogan's non-interventionist Zero Problems approach. Turkey appears at least 75 times.
I've used profing as an abbreviation for professoring in discussions of tenure.
Before Tenure took over in 1970, professoring was a fairly leisurely occupation. It didn't pay very well, but it also didn't require lots of time. Many profs had 'old money' or inherited property. They lived better with the money from profing, but they could survive for a while without it. Result: a lot less crap and (comparatively) more careful and thoughtful research. Now that graduates start with a lifetime of debt, maximum employment and maximum grants are desperately necessary for survival.¶ 12:34 PM
