911
11/09/2011
There was the Chilean coup in 1973, and there are these important anniversaries as well. Axé.
More on the Question of Work
11/09/2011
Let’s call what we do WORK, and let’s stop wearing white monogrammed dinner jackets when we do it. Once again: the problem I have with that sentence is that I never didn’t call it work or wear a white monogrammed dinner jacket to do “it.” Writing is fun, publishing is easy, teaching is a pleasant … More More on the Question of Work
Question
10/09/2011
Can you please explain the advantages of bibliography managers, spreadsheets, and so on to people who are good typists and know how to use calculators? While I was learning (x)html and so on, everyone seems to have started using programs like Excel and JabRef, and I do not yet understand why. I understand what these … More Question
Ain’t It Hard
10/09/2011
The pictures in that video would have looked exotic to me at one time but they no longer do, as such scenes can still be seen. Someone else says: I’m tired of the confidence, the guys who act as if the wind is at their backs, all of which cloaks the true effort involved. Let’s … More Ain’t It Hard
Resisting Juan María Bordaberry
08/09/2011
This film looks excellent. I found it, of course, while looking for something else, and it reminded me of one of the many ironies of life. There were long term Uruguayan exchange students at my high school. They had left before the 1973 coup but by the time they went home, the military had been … More Resisting Juan María Bordaberry
Further Anti-Advice to New Faculty, and an Advising Question, Revised
08/09/2011
Addendum, Part A: I regularly get people into good PhD programs in my field and many of them, as well as those whose dissertations I directed or was on, now hold good jobs and high ranks. My advising question, below and now in red, has to do with the social sciences. I am still soliciting … More Further Anti-Advice to New Faculty, and an Advising Question, Revised
937
07/09/2011
I had written about three more paragraphs of vitriol, about my irritation with entitled beings, but I erased them inadvertently and cannot reconstruct. I feel horrible because of teaching 5 classes and doing other work too, it is grueling, and I do not have good habits at this time (as in, always going to the … More 937
Wardell Quezergue
07/09/2011
So glad to have known you. We will see you again. Mass is Monday, September 12 at 11 a.m. at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 2022 Saint Bernard Avenue. Axé.
Go Down Old Hannah
07/09/2011
This is an Alan Lomax recording. The picture is apparently from the 50s but that is exactly how the men at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola look walking out to work each morning, today. I am trying to decide what records I will send to the people far away who helped with my bibliography. … More Go Down Old Hannah
Alma de poeta, corazón antioqueño
06/09/2011
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 