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Wowza and Iraq
No matter how you "feel" about the war in Iraq and its various costs, it's terrifying to watch your entire salary click by inside a minute. And to realize that it will take about two generations of American children to pay it off. At the expense of the other world needs listed on the site. Man (she said as a euphemism for "holy fuck"). -
Feeling Grown Up
comes in fits and starts. Today's Grown-Upness comes in the form of my first Call for Papers. It's the happy fall-out of the MLA panel. I've sent it off to the other panelists for adaptation and revision, so it's not final. In fact it's vague. But, it means the millstone will begin to churn, ... and that I did it. You know that little glow you get ( Read more... ) -
Shelly Adoration
"The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our own nature and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thoughts, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his ( Read more... ) -
This is fun
http://www.librivox.org/ Listen to (L)it. -
Petition to Save Iraq's Academics
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Quote Dump
One of the uses of Commonplace Books, which most blogs are just hi-tech commonplace books, was jotting down quotations one wanted to use/remember/revisit. I am a Quotation Addict. And I feel a new cycle of them for my email sig, so here's the old ones. Expect more. It occured to me this is a good place to keep them ( Read more... ) -
Engage or Don't.
With the Web, ya just never kno. I've been posted on Rate Your Students. The post shares the subject line of this one. My thanks to S for forwarding the blog to me. It's about managing students, teaching, and why I have not yet gone postal. The post was harmlessly, but interestingly edited, so here's my original: ( Read more... ) -
Radio Reception Mysteries 2
So, in a fit of pique (love that word), I scotch taped my radio's flimsy wire antenna to my copper lamp. KNTU comes in just fine, no matter where I stand in my apt. So, there you go. I'm moving Somewhere in the next nine months, and just today, after seven years here, I get KNTU to come in clear. Here's to nine months of jazzy happiness and much -
WordSpace for Spring & Weather for Me
Ok! WordSpace has a Spring Schedule. Lots of yummy. Will post to the website soon. Sneak Peek below. Also, we're actually going to finish out the content for all the pages that have lain fallow these last months. Thank the gods. There's a genius working with us to help. Jason is a FABulous web designer. See his stuff at: www.iagreewithjason.com.
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