When I first came up with the acronym BCD (bonehead comment of the day), I never realized that it would be so versatile. Or at least the C in it. Today, it again revolves not so much around a comment as it does a command. Yesterday evening, the University of Not-Bielefeld followed the provincial decreeContinue reading “BCD 31.01.2023”
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BCD 23.01.2023
Not so much of a bonehead comment this time around as of a bonehead contraction … I’ve written a couple of times about how the Germans like their laws and about how they like referring to their overly long names with sometimes rather cryptic abbreviations. Today, I discovered perhaps one of the most unfortunate abbreviationsContinue reading “BCD 23.01.2023”
BCD 15.09.2022
Another mercifully slow summer as admin seems to be serially estivating until the autumn. However, there is always the watchful eye of the Office of Dataprotection and Informationsafetymanagement here at the University of Not-Bielefeld, ready to leap selflessly into the void … … only to fill it with a vacuum. Their latest missive warns usContinue reading “BCD 15.09.2022”
BCD 01.09.2022
The latest bonehead comment of the day comes to you from Ryanair, with whom I flew with a couple times in the past few weeks. For those fortunate few not familiar with Ryanair, it’s basically an infomercial at 30.000 feet. The tickets tend to be dirt cheap, but then you have to pay for everythingContinue reading “BCD 01.09.2022”
BCD 13.06.2022
Like most Canadians, I’ve long wondered why the US has stubbornly refused to adopt the metric system. (Which is apparently a myth: they have, but they just don’t use it. So, like Canada, except that we use it a lot more even if not always all of the time.) In a society obsessed with convenience,Continue reading “BCD 13.06.2022”
BCD 09.05.2022
Part of the University of Not-Bielefeld’s justification in opening up fully for teaching this semester was that the incidence of corona among students earlier this year was far lower than in Not Bielefeld generally, meaning that the University was neither a corona hotspot nor a spreader event. And, as part of its meticulously thought outContinue reading “BCD 09.05.2022”
BCD 07.04.2022
The perfect, unintentional one-liner that comes from putting style above substance: the English acronym of the University of Not Bielefeld’s swishy moniker to justify opening up for teaching, and which becomes especially relevant for the coming semester where we will be fully open despite continuing record numbers of infections in Germany, works out to RIP.
BCD 18.02.2022
More of a change than a comment, but, as I’ve said before, if you’re looking for a blog with strict adherence to the rules, keep looking … Just noticed today that they’ve changed the packaging for my underarm deodorant. Again. Although there was more than enough room for both pieces of information, the packaging nowContinue reading “BCD 18.02.2022”
BCD 05.11.2021
With admin continuing to lay low—which is really only a bad thing in the context of this blog—it’s become necessary to find other admin analogous activities to take cheap potshots at. So, welcome to the first, irregularly scheduled edition of the Bonehead Comment of the Day (BCD), where I pay “tribute” to some statement madeContinue reading “BCD 05.11.2021”
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