After a long period of having little but detestation for google book and their amazonized dicked-by-book-publishers "browsing" (non-browsing) approach to letting you view works in copyright, I've come round to liking them all right. I'm reading a lot of shit no longer in copyright, and within this outer cordon, the power of the full text search is ( Read more... )

Link.

"So I was sitting there, casually reading the work of one great intellectual, when I heard about the death of another. And I thought, 'That Rorty guy, he had some good ideas, but what he lacked was perspective.' Like a lot of intellectuals and academics, he thought really hard about a lot of shit. All kinds of shit. And he had some ( Read more... )

I think it's time to start writing journally again. It's been so long since I've done this that the activity has, in the interim, acquired its own common noun (or gerund or whatever). And I'm certainly no longer interested in doing whatever it was I did before--agonized semi-public grousing about my own personal trivia, mostly, I believe. But it ( Read more... )

This is a floorplan of my apartment for next year. 88 Foster St., New Haven, with Justin D and Kristin K-M.

Mario Kart DS arrived today.

How will I ever get all my shit done? It's SO GOOD.

I'm hanging out in New York right now, trying not to think too much about all the work. It's a nice day (I think)--mid-heaight clouds, 49 degrees. The plan is to load a metal flask up with some vodka and make our way to the bronx zoo, then find some food and see if we can see Daniel Craig as Bond (a difficult thing to do in New York--even the ( Read more... )

I pass my language exam. On to Bouvard et Peceuchet (sp?) en Francais.

Returning to SB early early in the morning, aug. 23, after seeing the girlfriend (emphatically ex) for what will likely be the last time in my life (knowing her--and I do, far too well). I'll be home until Sept 2. I hope to see all of you. (Louis, when are you leaving? I owe you an email!)

Kayak.com tells me this as I try to book tickets (to come home):

You cannot return before you've arrived, please adjust your dates.

It's true. Dates adjusted.

Did you get the email I just sent? No need for anything more than a 1-word response. I'm still not 100% sure about your address post-college.