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It is probably not wise....
It is probably not wise to claim any kind of victory these days-that’s just asking for a smiting from the gods of [insert your favorite iconography], yet, I have had tiny bits of luck in the last day or two. Tiny, but I’ll take them ( Read more... ) -
Driving in Oregon
I was doing a little reading for the course I’m teaching this quarter and I came across this in a description of a trip across Oregon ( Read more... ) -
"Too Monstrous To Be Believed"
From Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor (1880 ( Read more... ) -
Oh, language, you tricky thing
Today my friend Chris and I were having a conversation about technology, the basic (and tremendous) advances of computing technology we’ve lived through, and how the growth of cloud computing may have some real utility after all to the basic Jane and Joe wandering the dusty roads of the Internet gigahighway. But, she advised, cloud computing is not ( Read more... ) -
Academic Jadeism
I was talking to a friend of mine in the history program yesterday, telling him about two of my students who just did a great job on their first assignment in my course. He noted that I should fail them on principle-the principle of survival: we really don't want them to proceed into grad school and be competing with us for the ever-narrowing ( Read more... ) -
Sarah Palin and Blood Libel: Huh?
I heard the president last night and he's right: we all need to scale back our rhetoric and seek a more civil discourse. I'm not sure that means we should let lies and distortions go unchallenged, but I'm willing to try to find a better way to do that. I refuse, however, to allow those who adorn themselves in the flag assert that they-and only they ( Read more... ) -
What I did for the holidays
I resurrected dead people ( Read more... ) -
Oh....maybe that's why...
So, a few weeks ago I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything fresh, rather smugly declaring that I had regained a ton of disk space and hadn't lost a single file.
Ahem.
Hubris sucks.
As I was toying around with what may become TDHL 2010 I discovered that I was missing some files. A hell of a lot of some files. I don't know how your ( Read more... )
