This semester, (or rather, last semester,) I attempted to revise my Powerpoint presentations into something a bit more different from the rest. See, in the M.A program at Long Beach, you’re expected to use PowerPoint to work with your presentation on a particular book/article/theory/etc. I felt like everyone was encroaching in on my then-current style, [...]

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Taking the advice of commentator Jstrat, who runs the Emergency Trap Blog, I decided to set up an account with the service known as Ether. Ether allows you to be given an extension that people can call you from, after prepaying for a set amount of minutes that you want them to pay. After that, they [...]

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