Classes are starting and we have already had the department party. At the department party: Students: Can we be in your class? Professor Zero: You do not want to be in my class. I am the Worst Professor Ever! Students: You may have heard that, but it is not what our friends say! Allons voir. … More Stolen from Historiann
Do you actually use your accounts on LinkedIn or Academia.edu? If so, how do you find the time? I have blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Facebook to communicate in town with civic and student organizations, Twitter because it is a convention, and blogs to think about work. I do not really read Tweets because I do … More Social Overload
I decided it was time to renovate my curriculum vitae, so I have been doing it. This is for updating, refreshing, pruning, and reediting, but it is also so as to have a .txt ready to use to learn LaTex or at least Lyx with. Both programs have curriculum vitae templates and I have looked … More Vita Fetish
Sam Stark’s “Let Us Dispute” in The Nation (August 15/22, 2011): 42-45 is a truly fascinating review essay on Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, “I Have always loved the Holy Tongue.” Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011). Casaubon (1559-1614), upon one earlier, less interesting portrait of … More Isaac Casaubon
Watch and learn. Axé.
Here is the choir of King’s College, Cambridge: Hallelujah. And in 1994: I have had a few coding problems in WordPress today; this post on discoveries and victories has changed several times. Highlights are: • I am running Ubuntu Linux 11.04 and it is brilliant. My LeNovo hardware is excellent, as are the technicians at … More Mo’ Mo’ Code
In the past one was dismissed for not publishing enough but now it is because one does not produce enough student credit hours or bring in enough external funding. Axé.
From: Professor Zero Re: Sentences by You Date: Immediately Dear Administrators: I think you are actually starting to believe the things you say. When you lose your temper in a large meeting, however, I sense you know that what you are doing is wrong. Dear Faculty: No, we cannot close down a program just because … More To: All Persons Old and Young
I have wondered about all these posts put up by people who did not get or have not yet gotten tenure track jobs and are disappointed because they were told they surely would. We, of course, were told we surely wouldn’t and I have wondered who is now telling people they surely will. It occurs … More An Idea
A. Tree of Life does a good job of filming the dreamlike experience of childhood. It is set in the fifties, but I experienced the world that way, in clips and images, in the sixties. I remember very clearly the day JFK was killed. We prayed and saluted the flag in school. The teachers and … More Tree of Life
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