No, I haven't vanished...

Ok, so it's been almost forever since I posted anything on here, and this isn't actually going to be a very long post at all... mainly just posting a link to this, which is (as far as I can tell) an actual exam paper from an undergrad subject that was very popular among the "student athlete" population of a major US university. To quote some of the questions (and yes, these are a pretty representative selection of the 20 multiple-choice questions that were on this exam paper, with the spelling and random capitalisation errors fixed by me...):

How many goals are on a basketball court?

How many halves are in a college basketball game?

How many points does a 3-point field goal count for in a basketball game?

Mmm, academic rigour... And yes, the "lecturer" (one of the assistant coaches of the basketball team) was fired for this, among other misdeeds.

But anyway - I did promise various people that I'll upload some photos from my most recent trip to Europe here at some point, and I do intend to do that - I'm taking most of next month off work, so will have plenty of time for uploading photos and posting random rantings then. I've been spending this month writing and re-writing journal papers, fixing broken analytical instruments, and revising and modifying (and sometimes rewriting) teaching materials to use this semester... so I've earnt a break, I think.