My two goals over the "Fall Semester" (September 2007 - December ( Read more... )

What a wonderful article:

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su07/love-deresiewicz.html
Update: It's good all the way through, but if you're pressed for time then scroll down to the big, friendly letter S about 2/3 of the way down the page."Teaching, as Neil ( Read more... )

Below is a link to a Greenville News article in which I was quoted. The quotes were taken from an email I wrote to the reporter, which is given below. As usual writing made me feel better, but words are unsatisfying and unfulfilling tools with which to describe or reflect on something of this magnitude. All of us here are living through a ( Read more... )

If there were one website that I would want to transmit to future generations or to an alien civilization, it would be Wikipedia. If I were allowed a second, I would definitely offer them The Becker-Posner Blog. Gary Becker is an economist from the University of Chicago. Richard Posner is a Federal Appeals Court Judge also from Chicago. Their ( Read more... )

Giant tin of popcorn. Caramel and Cheese and Butter. My room. Stat.

PoeticPulsar (4:30:27 AM): anyhow, you should be biocheming, and i should do some writing.
strandednwv (4:30:54 AM): i think in some bizarre, twisted version of reality, we should be sleeping

SHE already has her picture on a website. But I don't think she'll mind. Due in June!

P.S. My new niece; ultrasound this morning.

This year is starting out about as well as the last one ended. Funny thing about that.

I'm off to Virginia Beach, Maryland, and places above and beyond.

Good food ( Read more... )

Questions I Guarantee You've Never Answered ( Read more... )