Rule #9

My office door has a multitude of signs, notices, and other documents of various interest and concerns. The text in particular that causes the most reading is a pair of papers called "Tilton's Laws of the Academic Universe." This document has been on my office door since I taught at...

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Wisdomatic

The "Fountain of Wisdom" from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila seems like a good visual metaphor for wisdomatic. (Wikipedia photo/T0p 16) I’m trying to create a new word in the hope that I can make it the Webster’s Word of the Year for 2012. That word is wisdomatic. I’m...

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