Trolling

Here's a nice response from a blogger to probable comment-trolling that made me laugh so thought it was worth reposting:

It’s quite a hot day in the UK today, but you must be feeling nice and cool beneath that bridge of yours. I am afraid your wait for an apology will be a rather long one. Happy Trolling.

— mjp6034 in The Babeling of Miss_Snuffy

Hat-tip to the HTML5 Doctor for the HTML5 blockquote markup ;-)

Fifteen movie questions meme

Inspired by Katie, I'm not good at "top 10" (too fickle) but here are a few ephemeral choices...

Movie you love with a passion

Snap!

Movie you vow never to watch

'nuff said...

Movie that literally left you speechless

Watched it late at night on my own in an almost empty cinema ... I know it's not a real classic but I was speechles at the end.

Movie you always recommend

Timeless!

Actor/Actress you always watch no matter how crappy the movie

Actor/Actress you don’t get the appeal for

Actor/Actress living or dead you’d love to meet

Sexiest actor/actress you’ve ever seen (picture required!)

Sorry, can't answer that one: too brief an attention span...

Dream cast

Favourite actor pairing

Favourite movie setting

Favourite decade for movies

Can't choose! Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien vs. Aliens vs. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter...

Chick flick or action movie?

Hero, villain or anti-hero?

Fence-sitter!

Black and white or colour?

All of my favourite films are colour but some of the most memorable have black and white sequences...

Defining what education is really for

Bizarrely, I've just had a congruent conversation with a very eloquent and switched-on Students' Union president-elect and our equally insightful L&T Coordinator: Multiplication smackdown: Sal Khan vs Vi Hart – who’s got the ‘insight’? (from Quantum Progress).

As a maths and computing lecturer I know something about both sides but I'm still siding with Vi: Khan is brilliant as a resource and the surface approach works well alongside something designed to develop deeper understanding ... hmmm, isn't that what higher education is for, after all? ;-)