So it is Easter again, time to rise again, and so I shall. This is Oludumare, breathing peace into us after a terrible week. My week was terrible because of religiosity and machismo. It began on the wrong note, as I went to church on Palm Sunday because a colleague was singing. One likes to … More Olodumare, or Easter of Self-Respect
In addition to what is in the Ubuntu cloud, there are the files on my office computer. There are other files on the University mainframe. There are important files on: – two jump drives – the XP notebook, which has files under my name and under Admin – Dropbox I want to remember all of … More Recordatorio
So, I thought I would volunteer to do this since I would like my institution to participate more actively in the program, and since it appeared to mean four hours of work in a place I was going anyway, in exchange for a night in a hotel and a fuel reimbursement — fair enough, if … More Federal Government
I am reading on Alcides Arguedas, about whom I knew relatively little. I learned the most amazing thing I have learned all semester: he thought that through education, the Indians of Bolivia could be transformed into Swedes! This is something like Macunaíma, bathing in the magic pool and turning into a beautiful, white prince. * … More Alcides Arguedas
“Pelo telefone” was the first recorded samba, in 1917. I would like that recording. I love that it is about talking on the phone. And here is Martinho’s version. Axé.
I am of course tired of writing about academic advice and about Reeducation. I feel I have said everything I could say, and that anything new I could say would take time to write that I would rather use for almost anything else – academic work, housework, recreation. My perception for the week, though, is … More Sondé miroir
When I was a child, after sailing to Europe on the M.S. Aurelia we had lunch at the Hostellerie Cro-Magnon, in the Dordogne. This was so as to visit caves allegedly painted by Cro-Magnon men. Only now have I realized that Cro-Magnon man was named after the more modern name of the region. The Hostellerie … More Hostellerie Cro-Magnon
Here is the ficha de inscripción for the 2012 festival de cine de Lima, which is August 3-11. It would be fun go to this festival, but fares are high and routes inconvenient; it is actually easier and hardly more expensive to go to Argentina or Chile. Flights to Mexico and Guatemala are fully half … More Festival de Lima. A very amusing post
More on the Dominican theme. I don’t remember the US backed coup of 1963, but I do remember the US backed invasion of 1965, when we were also putting Mobutu Sese Seko into the Congo and escalating in Viet Nam. I cannot believe people witnessed these things, yet did not understand the drumbeat that led … More Juan Bosch
Nietzche did not get tenure, it is said, due to the committee’s disinterest in The Birth of Tragedy, his tenure book; he never got another academic job. Now it appears that Taine failed the agrégation. From the Johns Hopkins Guide: Although he was clearly the outstanding student of his class, he failed his final examination … More Hippolyte Taine
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