tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post1679687554261300113..comments2024-03-05T09:00:51.695-08:00Comments on DISSENT the BLOG: Tri-tip scandal rocks Irvine Valley College!? (What's the beef?)Rebel Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00695051285325585662noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-57641929666782921692012-01-15T10:23:41.984-08:002012-01-15T10:23:41.984-08:00after the luncheon I heard people whine and babble...after the luncheon I heard people whine and babble on about the tri tip running out ...<br /><br />really?<br /><br />actually it was a pretty nice gesture on his part and maybe we should spend a bit more time saying so....<br /><br />was the grill a bit dirty?....were the hamburger buns a tad stale?.....were there enough diet drinks?.....EEK!<br /><br />sometimes we all look terribly ridiculous....<br /><br />I am anonymous here so have no points to gain.....<br /><br />Come on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-56567452354091866772012-01-14T10:39:05.067-08:002012-01-14T10:39:05.067-08:00Lima beans come from Peru.Lima beans come from Peru.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-81210733745634397412012-01-13T19:14:33.553-08:002012-01-13T19:14:33.553-08:00Okay; here we go:
chiotsrun.com/2009/07/22/thats-...Okay; here we go:<br /><br />chiotsrun.com/2009/07/22/thats-why-they-call-it-an-eggplant/<br /><br />(I'm probably the only one who didn't know this.)<br /><br />MAHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-29346272242486845062012-01-13T19:09:58.195-08:002012-01-13T19:09:58.195-08:00I totally get what you mean, 4:09; it's a grea...I totally get what you mean, 4:09; it's a great point that is more important than almost any other. (Big claim, but I think it's true.) I was thinking of somebody who is a clerk at Target or Stater Bros. all day; they can remember that there are other parts to their souls that they should not neglect (if they can find time and energy to cultivate those other parts). But your point is well-taken.<br /><br />On another point entirely: I, too, found "egg plant" disconcerting and somehow disturbing. How the heck did a plant get named "eggplant," anyway? I'm going to look it up.<br /><br />MAHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-42042522056491954302012-01-13T17:46:50.809-08:002012-01-13T17:46:50.809-08:00No beef about no beef for me, but doesn't GR k...No beef about no beef for me, but doesn't GR know how to spell "eggplant"?<br /><br />Hint: It's not "Egg Plant."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-64309394749393908202012-01-13T16:55:57.282-08:002012-01-13T16:55:57.282-08:00Aren't quotes in college emails inappropriate?...Aren't quotes in college emails inappropriate? What if it was a biblical quote?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-70182609983878444942012-01-13T16:46:56.100-08:002012-01-13T16:46:56.100-08:00I think the mysterious quotation dates to those da...I think the mysterious quotation dates to those days of tension when people began signing off their emails with a series of ever increasing overly polite salutations:<br /><br />respectfully<br /><br />with respect<br /><br />with utmost respect<br /><br />with more respect than that other guy<br /><br />etc.<br /><br />People were trying to "top" one another in how they presented themselves.<br /><br />I think THAT is when the closing quote began to appear on certain people's emails signatures...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-77547093751820140972012-01-13T16:09:53.059-08:002012-01-13T16:09:53.059-08:00Good point MAH, but even if we take it away from t...Good point MAH, but even if we take it away from the context of employment, should not our actions (what we DO) be a part of what or who we ARE? <br /><br />Or couldn't the logic of the curious quotation be used to justify or explain actions that one takes but doesn't want to own?<br /><br />Know what I mean?<br /><br />"Yes, I have to DO this unethical thing but that's not who I really am - really I am GOOD GUY."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-39513425181151975442012-01-13T15:31:28.057-08:002012-01-13T15:31:28.057-08:00I appreciate all of the comments about the curious...I appreciate all of the comments about the curious quotation--but in one way, our responses are unintentionally elitist, I think. We (faculty, at least) are fortunate enough to be able to do (for a living) what we love and deeply believe in; but many others are stuck in blue-collar jobs that they may or may not particularly identify with their most essential selves--and maybe they don't have much of a choice. (I doubt if this is what your Glen meant, though, since he's in a very different position.)<br /><br />MAHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-15940740002828105942012-01-13T13:50:36.760-08:002012-01-13T13:50:36.760-08:00LOL! Describes Glenn perfectly!LOL! Describes Glenn perfectly!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-63607473792460782652012-01-13T11:11:41.838-08:002012-01-13T11:11:41.838-08:00Isn't your "work" and how you do it,...Isn't your "work" and how you do it, part of "who" you are? <br /><br />I always have thought that Glen's closing quote was unintentionally hilarious precisely because it was attributed to "Unknown" - clearly a person who has lost sense of who she or he was - and remains UNKNOWN. Hilarious. Especially coming from an educator. But maybe he is not an educator after all because WHAT he does is not WHO he is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-3725592342561003692012-01-13T08:38:39.850-08:002012-01-13T08:38:39.850-08:00Let's bbq up the mountain lion!Let's bbq up the mountain lion!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-42375321064824850322012-01-12T21:45:32.581-08:002012-01-12T21:45:32.581-08:00Nice clip art in that email! Very professional. V...Nice clip art in that email! Very professional. Very Ivy League. <br /><br />The spelling is also bad...<br /><br />Maybe Glenn is your troll!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-85274189925592875422012-01-12T21:32:23.898-08:002012-01-12T21:32:23.898-08:00I think the quotation warns that we should not bec...I think the quotation warns that we should not become so absorbed in our work that we lose sight of who we are. Work and the desire to climb up the ladder should never become so important that they devour our sense of empathy or personal integrity.<br /><br />Some of Glenn's closest staffers should heed those words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-84908976785288313892012-01-12T21:14:49.173-08:002012-01-12T21:14:49.173-08:00MAH, I'm glad you remembered the Blue Beet. Di...MAH, I'm glad you remembered the Blue Beet. Did you and I dine there at some point? I know we popped in once or twice. I recall going there while an undergraduate once or twice--just before I met you, I think. Friday night craziness.Roy Bauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10107385463457119300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-58079841032964154642012-01-12T20:08:47.938-08:002012-01-12T20:08:47.938-08:00p.s. Just so you know, BvT--I was quite excited r...p.s. Just so you know, BvT--I was quite excited reading about the Blue Beet; I'd completely forgotten about it!<br /><br />Sorry for the anti-beef rant; it all just seemed so bizarre, and I couldn't help it.<br /><br />MAHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-32260433581174797452012-01-12T19:52:56.161-08:002012-01-12T19:52:56.161-08:00Oh, gad, 6:49; that was a really good one. Actual...Oh, gad, 6:49; that was a really good one. Actually, every comment here is pretty darned great.<br /><br />As to the tri-tip debate: good GOD, guys; have you ever heard of the animal-ethical, environmental (and thus also ethical), and health-related problems with beef--? Not to mention that it's spectacularly wasteful of food resources, a huge contributor to climate change (trolls, please don't even start....) via methane, vastly energy-inefficient.....? I'd better stop. But WHAT the hell--? I think whoever it was who said it's really just disgruntlement with Glen must be quite right--I hope so!<br /><br />MAHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-75117982348672887342012-01-12T18:49:56.595-08:002012-01-12T18:49:56.595-08:00Yes, I too have noticed Glenn's odd bit of all...Yes, I too have noticed Glenn's odd bit of alleged wisdom. Naturally, it is paradoxical; it seems to be the opposite of anything a wise person might say. I think we have all grown accustomed to this. Speaking for myself, anyway, I fully expect Glenn to own a plaque, sitting on his desk, that says something like, "the only lasting riches are, not in family and friends, but in one's bank account." No doubt, next to his toilet, there sits a book of wisdom, starting with the profound, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" (Star Trek) and ending with the pithy "beam me up, Scotty!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-19413032439640748512012-01-12T18:40:24.490-08:002012-01-12T18:40:24.490-08:00“Never confuse who you are with what you do.”
Prim...“Never confuse who you are with what you do.”<br />Prima facie, the remark is odd, for there exists a familiar bit of reputed wisdom very much to the contrary: that the only real measure of who you are is, well, <i>what you do</i>—as opposed to the conduct you endorse, which, obviously, can diverge dramatically from one’s conduct—especially among Republicans. “You are what you do” may seem to be worth saying.<br />Naturally, in a world in which people are often forced or compelled to “do things”—accept jobs or assignments—that they find disagreeable, it might be comforting to be told that that’s not who you are, really. But that’s a lot of context, and none of it is provided by the bare remark.<br />Perhaps the remark is making a point about the way in which one makes a living. Among businessmen, lawyers, salesmen, advertisers, and various others whose profession invites suspicion that they lack a soul, it might be nice to be told that, at the end of the day, when one arrives home to reunite with one’s jaccuzi or mistress, one can, at long last, really be oneself. Hmmmm.<br />My guess is that Glenn scraped this saying from the bottom of a barrel found among the refuse of a business management course.<br />All in all, I’d say Glenn’s saying is rubbish.Roy Bauerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10107385463457119300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16908834.post-67348425396995462762012-01-12T18:10:21.465-08:002012-01-12T18:10:21.465-08:00I'm curious: why does Glen close his email wit...I'm curious: why does Glen close his email with that strange quotation by "Unknown" - "Never confuse who you are with what you do." ????<br /><br />Certainly what one does (one's actions) is part of who one is (IS in that BIG sense), right? How could it not be so? (You're a philosopher Roy, please explain.)<br /><br />Does anyone know why this statement is near and dear to Glen's heart? <br /><br />I could care less about the tri-tip but eggplant IS one word, not TWO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com