love to be the well-off old professor who always does a "reply all" and can't open PDFs and prints/staples all emails and can't type with more than one finger (the "hunt and peck" method)
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can you even imagine the massive support system -- typists, secretaries, researchers, years of sabbatical and endowed travel -- needed for these grey eminences to accomplish the most basic of tasks?
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I've worked at a university supporting those profs. Makes your head explode.
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"can you print this email for me?"
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Imagine how much the local economy would be bolstered by all those jobs!
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yeah, 20-30 people per professor, at least ... it takes a village
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Awwww, the last of the unicorns. We won't see another generation of classic scholars in Australia, with defunding. I miss them - damn those guys could lecture.
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Point them in the direction of the lectern and let them go ... that was where they could deliver
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