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Victory is Mine!

Working from Dr. B’s tracking of daily accomplishments, and an appreciation for Stewie’s rally cry, I hope to post celebrations of my greatness (this should provide a bit of motivation to complete mundane tasks that would otherwise go undone). I … Continue reading

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Sorry Casey, Still No Flying Cars

This article by Charlie Stross is making its way through the interweb. Like some of the research I am working on Stross argues that the “progress” of the future won’t concern processing power, software engineering, or even (Other help us) … Continue reading

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NBA Draft

Yellow Dog had an interesting post on whether the NBA draft is overrated, looking at the lineups ofthe teams in the playoffs. This really sparked my interest, since I initially assumed the NBA draft to be the most important in … Continue reading

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Introductory Blogging… I mean Composition

This fall a few colleagues and fellow bloggers have decided to network our introductory composition classes (at least four classes). The idea is to structure our course around blogging, having our students write often for “real” audiences, on a specialized … Continue reading

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Clemens: Can You Go Back (and forth)?

Some quick thoughts on Clemens as a Yankee (again): he’s undoubtedly the greatest regular season pictcher in baseball history (give me Gibson or Schilling in game seven), and the Yankee rotation needs a player to solidify that rotation. Roger’s conditioning … Continue reading

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Two Conversations?

Finally got around to creating a link list today: included every blog currently in my RSS. God I love Safari’s easy RSS folder organization. Yummy. I decided to “segregate” the conversations: one list for English / academic discussions and another … Continue reading

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A List Apart

http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey Three posts in one day? Clearly a record. I even managed to mow the lawn today. Victory is mine.

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A Friendly Response: Fuck theory and leave Derrida Alone

A friend sent me this video on Derrida this morning. It is funny, and I encourage my friend and others to send me such things. But I do want to make a response, a response perhaps too serious for the … Continue reading

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Levinas website

I can’t remember if I posted about this before, but I finished the new NALS (North American Levinas Society) website a few weeks back. This morning I coded the conference schedule for 2007–an amazingly boring job that claimed 2 hours … Continue reading

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Good month for Boston

My teams certainly know how to deliver a birthday present (although the Pats were a bit late…) Red Sox Besides hitting four consecutive homeruns on my birthday, the Sox dominated the Yanks so far this year. And I know the … Continue reading

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