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Fan of old video games & related tech. RetroTINK/NES/composite video enthusiast. Christian, husband, father, friend. Man of peace.

Winterville, NC
Joined October 2012
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
2 years
The background graphics from NES DuckTales 2 (especially this rope) are an impressive example of how composite video can help to create a whole that’s more than the sum of the separate components that you get with RGB.
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LOOK AT THIS! 👀🤯
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PRO Pixels
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Sorry for the waiting guys! Mike provided me the newest Retrotink 4K and I am blown away by the CRT-Masks & scanlines! 🥹 What do you think? Mario Kart 64 #N64 1) Screenshot | 4k | RGB | Sharp Pixels | HDR OFF 2) Off-screen photo: 4k | RGB | Slot Mask (customized) | HDR ON
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Greenville doesn't need more luxury apartments for students. It needs more affordable apartments for students. Expensive luxury apartments contribute to the student debt crisis and promote unrealistic expectations for the lifestyle that one should be able to afford at that age.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
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I considered canceling class for the rest of the semester and just giving every student an A, but if I did that then I'd have to change my Twitter handle to UNCProfessor.
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I am a digital archaeologist who aims to discover and appreciate composite video artifacts that were part of the original gaming experience but are lost in the transition to newer technologies.
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I sure hope this semester gets better. In the 1st month we’ve had a student run-in w/ a bus, a student bit by a snake, people getting shot uptown, a weather-delayed football game that we lost, & a devastating hurricane. Hard to imagine things getting worse. At least we beat UNC.
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Pitt County Schools: CLOSED Pitt Community College: CLOSED East Carolina University:
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5 years
I took just a D N A Test t u r n s o u t i'm 1 0 0 % ready for Chancellor Dan to be reinstated.
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Putting @ECUChancellor on administrative leave for going downtown and socializing and with students and members of the community is like suspending Walt Disney for riding roller coasters with park guests. It’s asinine. #IStandWithDan
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ECU: “Come back to class.” Students who followed ECU’s advice to leave Greenville:
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
I feel bad for students who missed the Ruffin McNeill/Lincoln Riley era. It was glorious.
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Tom McClellan
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On this date just 5 years ago, a Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium-record 51K 🏴‍☠️ fans enjoyed a stunning sunset and ... 7️⃣0️⃣
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Students: Please stop viewing this storm as a blessing because you’re excited that classes will probably get cancelled. This storm is likely to cause an extraordinary amount of suffering and property damage. Many will lose their lives and homes. It’s not like a fun snow day.
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5 years
Let’s just call the semester good, cancel finals, and meet back on campus in January.
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This Thursday ECU is gonna be like: “Time for class! Where y’all at? 🤷‍♂️”
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5 years
Some people still fail to recognize that Chancellor Dan was actually the victim in this thing. Do these claims of “He should have known better than to be at that place at that time” sound familiar at all? It’s ludicrous. He should be able to go where he wants when he wants to.
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6 years
Paula Dance will be Pitt County’s first female African American sheriff and the 5th in the entire USA!
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6 years
Paula Dance will be the next @PittSheriff .
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ECU Freshmen: “I’m gonna get straight A’s during my first semester!” MATH 1065:
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6 years
An impressive entryway to the new student center!
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1 year
NES RF with scanlines vs crisp pixel NES RGB. Which look do you find more satisfying?
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5 years
Chancellor Dan should be reinstated because he was doing great things for ECU. In a short time he effectively connected with students, faculty, & staff and brought fresh positive energy to the campus community. More importantly, he’s a good person & deserves to be treated fairly.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
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We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hate it when you refer to ECU as Eastern Carolina University.
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8 years
Five years ago today Jimmy Callaway unintentionally triggered a campus-wide lockdown when his umbrella was mistaken for a rifle. #ECUhistory
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I don’t have time to post much right now about the fact that Chancellor Dan resigned but since just want to say that I’m stunned, devastated, and angry.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
We regret to inform you that your request to have a White Claw vending machine installed in Joyner Library has been declined.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
ECU students watching UNCW students this week:
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
6 years
If you’re in college and you’re stirring up high school-level drama, you need to stop. Mind your own business. Don’t start drama. If someone else starts drama do your best to stay out of it. Go to class & study so that you can graduate & start your career. That’s why you’re here.
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5 years
Default reply to emails begging for a higher grade: “If you wanted to get a grade without earning it you should have gone to Chapel Hill.”
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4 years
Had a student email me to ask for clarification on a topic at 1 AM, sent a detailed response just before 4 AM, and received a reply thanking me for my help a few minutes later. It’s nice to know that neither of us have healthy sleep schedules.
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6 years
It never fails. The governor of North Carolina has declared a state of emergency, weather forecasters are urging people in Eastern NC to brace themselves for the worst storm in decades, and @ECUalert is over here like
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Coming back to campus like
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@ObsoleteSony Yes, they were.
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R.I.P. Allison Forsythe. She was going to finish her master's degree in counselor education at East Carolina University this semester. She took a plane ride for the first time in her life last Friday and died when it crashed.
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5 years
The moral of the story is: “Even if you’re great at your job, if the wrong people don’t like you then you might be smeared, investigated (without ever being accused of breaking any rules or laws), and forced to resign.”
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
7 years
yeah sex is cool but have you ever had a professor who rounds up when calculating final grades?
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
The old Dowdy Student Store location off of Wright Plaza was better.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
6 years
I have a feeling that #Florence may put limebikes in even more bizarre locations than usual.
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6 years
The side roads are icy, the water and gas mains are rupturing from extreme cold, the pipes in people’s apartments are freezing, and the Tar River is frozen over. But I guess I’ll see you in class tomorrow.
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6 years
Rainbow over campus this morning! 🌈
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7 years
Six years ago today ECU student Jimmy Callaway unintentionally triggered a campus-wide lockdown when security officers mistook his umbrella for a rifle while monitoring surveillance footage. #ECUHistory
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
I don’t know what the freshmen who are moving in to the West End dorms this week will think of the food in the dining hall but I do know that they’ll love Ms. B.
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UNC Wilmington: “Classes cancelled. Voluntary evacuation. Better safe than sorry!” ECU: “Classes cancelled? Lol, no. Mandatory education. Be safe! Sorry, not sorry.”
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
4 years
8-week block scheduling was a godawful idea.
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5 years
Meanwhile at ECU...
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@UNCWilmington
UNCW
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Classes are canceled for the remainder of this week and a mandatory evacuation has been issued for 5 p.m. tomorrow. Please check your UNCW email account and UNCW website for additional information.
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I don’t remember seeing this name on my roster. 🤔
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6 years
When head ECU football coach Ruffin McNeill was fired around this time in 2015, his record for the prior 3-year period was 23 wins & 15 losses, including two bowl games, one of which we won. Coach Mo’s record over the past three years was 9 wins & 26 losses, with no bowl games.
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4 years
After 22 weeks, the longest spring break ever has finally come to an end.
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6 years
To the folks who say “it doesn’t matter that sheriff-elect Paula Dance is a Black woman”: It SHOULDN’T. However, Black people & women DO get discriminated against. She likely faced challenges during her life & career that men & White folks didn’t have to face. So yes, it matters.
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Hey @WhitBabcock . Our school is about to be at the epicenter of the worst natural disaster that our state has ever experienced so you should really cut us some slack. We promise that you’ll get another chance to be defeated by us at some point in the future.
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Dylan Johnson
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VA Tech AD Whit Babcock about ECU cancelling the trip to VT: “We certainly understand the need for safety, of course, we just felt that tomorrow, making the decision then, would’ve been more responsible and accurate. We informed ECU of this multiple times."
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We regret to inform you that your request to install a Four Loko vending machine in Joyner Library has been declined.
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5 years
We get it. You vape.
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ECU students when professors tell them that they should have brought their books home with them:
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
6 years
Are you sitting down? Good. I know that this is going to come as a bit of a shock to some of you...WE WON!
@ECUPiratesFB
ECU Football
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Total team effort gets the W on Senior Night. #WorkTheBody
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A student sent this to me via DM saying “Setting an example to all other professors...” and asked me to remove the prof’s name.
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I just found out that UNC Chapel Hill gave students five days off this semester called “Wellness Days.” They got two 4-day weekends and one 3-day weekend to make up for the fact that they didn’t get a Spring Break. Honestly feeling a bit cheated right now.
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The “you teach at ECU so you shouldn’t have high expectations for your students” mentality makes me sick. You Pirates are capable of achieving amazing things. I work hard for you and I hope that you’ll work hard for me, too.
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Chancellor Dan has now been on academic leave for 3 weeks. Two and a half weeks ago a reliable eyewitness publicly stated that he did nothing inappropriate. I really wonder what's taking the investigators so long to wrap up this important matter. #IStandWithDan
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4 years
I wonder how social distancing will work with the infamous SciTech stairway.
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5 years
SciTech stairway traffic jams are the worst.
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It’s interesting seeing college students react to quarantine accommodations. They seem to really dislike not being free to choose where they can live, what they can eat, & how many possessions they can have. I wonder if they realize that this is a sample of life under socialism.
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It’s half past time to reinstate Chancellor Dan.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
Many young people would be better off if they didn’t attend college. Higher ed is only one of many paths to a happy & prosperous life, and it doesn’t even guarantee that outcome. Belief that attending college right after high school is the ONLY road to success can be problematic.
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6 years
Woah, I’ve never seen ECU evacuate the dorms before.
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6 years
Good news: ECU will not lose a football game this weekend!
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
4 years
Honestly, this year has been such a nonstop string of disappointments that at this point I’ve just stopped getting emotionally invested in most things. 🤷‍♂️
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I really miss teaching in-person classes. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of enthusiastically communicating mind-blowing information to a classroom full of students and then seeing this: 😐😐😒😑🤔😐😑😐😴😐😑😕😐😐😑😐😐😐😕😐😒😐🙄😐😐😒😑🙄😐😑😐😴😐😑😕😐😐😑😐
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6 years
Judging from student tweets, I think that it’s safe to say that ECU parking enforcement officers are the most unpopular people on campus.
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Years without a Greenville Halloween riot: 5️⃣
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NES fans: I highly recommend this translation patch for the original Japanese version of Contra. You’ll get graphical enhancements, a map, story, and cutscenes, all of which were cut from the US release. It’s now my favorite way to play this classic game!
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7 years
One year ago today: The notorious Hawaiian Shirt Gang got busted for breaking into apartments at The Bellamy.
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The Hawaiian Shirt Gang! "Six ECU students arrested on felony breaking and entering charges at The Bellamy"
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Classes have only been online for two days but it feels like it’s been a month.
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Do you ever get the sense that the folks who make the big decisions for ECU are in a perpetual state of
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Years without a Greenville Halloween riot: 4️⃣
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Looking to sublease the 30 seats in my classroom that are empty on days when there's not an exam. Free wifi & lectures. No pets, no smoking. Intermittent heat & AC.
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Many of us have heard a lot about the “Best College Bar in America” competition. The final round is now here! Regardless of whether you have voted before, please support local Greenville business @SupDogsECU with your vote by tweeting #BarstoolSups #BarstoolBestBar one more time.
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Me: “The syllabus is now available on Blackboard.” My students:
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Ain’t even gonna front: This is the most messed up semester ever.
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Nine years ago today ECU student Jimmy Callaway’s umbrella was mistaken for a rifle, which triggered a campus-wide lockdown.
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I try to follow back anyone affiliated with ECU (students/faculty/staff) by following anyone with “ECU” in their bio or is following many people who I already follow. If you’re a member of the ECU community who slipped through the cracks & wants a follow-back, favorite this tweet
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What ECU students are looking forward to next year: #ECU22 : Starting college 😄 #ECU21 : Apartment life 😜 #ECU20 : Turning 21 🍻 #ECU19 : Senior year/graduation 🎓 #ECU18 : Just trying to cope with the fact that they’re entering the real world or starting grad school 😬
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Long lost meme from 2013: The Harlem Shake
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Please like this tweet to help me to get @TwitterSupport ’s attention. My account is broken. 95% of my followers vanished & I can’t follow anyone back. I know that I tweet crazy 💩 sometimes but I kind of doubt that it was anything that would make 21,000 people unfollow me. 🤣
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Your “rough draft” vs your “final draft”.
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In 1999, Japan redesigned its flag.
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Seven years ago today ECU student Jimmy Callaway’s umbrella was mistaken for a rifle, which triggered a campus-wise lockdown.
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R.I.P. Blackboard
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Matthew Long
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (also a great 80s anthem)
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Apartment complexes that didn’t pay a service to plow the snow out of their parking lots, resulting in those lots now being covered in a sheet of ice, are irresponsible and greedy.
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Even when we only get a small amount of snow, you can always count on ECU students to use it as a canvas to share what’s on their minds.
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The year is 2035. Greenville has no more grocery stores as all food is delivered from Amazon Grocery via drones. ECU is seeking a replacement hover bike rental service. The store in Bate is still out of scantron forms.
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I apologize for my old tweets from years ago that have come to light. I used to harbor an irrational hatred of boneless wings and ranted that they weren’t “real wings”. I’ve learned the error of my ways and now recognize that all wings are delicious & deserve a spot at the table.
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This weather is welcome to stick around for the rest of my life.
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One thing that really blows my mind about these student apartment pics/videos is that I used to clean the heck out of apartments when I moved out to try to get my deposit back. I practically left them move-in ready.
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Looks like the management at Copper Beech really dropped the ball. Check out this “sterilized” and “move-in ready” apartment. 🤢
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These non-committal ECU Alert messages are ridiculous. Make a decision, already. 🙄😠
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5 years
I just walked through the new student center for the first time since it opened. Feels a bit like an airport terminal.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
When a cloud realizes that it’s over Greenville:
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
6 years
Me taking a scantron from the one student who took 75 minutes to complete an exam that the rest of the class finished in half that time.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
R.I.P. Harris Teeter by campus.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
6 years
I have 3 things to say to those who are clowning & saying that #Florence was “overhyped” because Greenville wasn’t wiped off the map: 1) It’s better to be overprepared than underprepared. 2) Hindsight is 20/20. 3) The Tar River is still rising and will continue to do so for days.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
4 years
RIP Buzz Coffee and Campus Calzones. We had some good times.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
Summer 2019: I discover that students have posted all of my quiz questions on Quizlet so I spend many hours rewriting them. Fall 2019: Students post my rewritten questions on Quizlet. Spring 2020: Fair enough. No more quizzes. Good luck with the new in-class essay tests.
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
5 years
I bet that a lot of people are still unaware of this. 🎓
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NES Professor 🏴‍☠️☮️
7 years
Did anyone else notice the three graduates in the new logo?
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