Atala

17/01/2018

I recycled my tattered copy of Atala but found in it these yellowed notes, that I will transcribe and decipher later. I see that I have always been interested in the same things. Atala: le récit. 1. LES CHASSEURS. Chactas and his father are allied with Spaniards against Muscogles (Indians). Chactas is a prisoner of … More Atala

The future

13/01/2018

I have to talk to a TIAA financial consultant and you can do it weekdays in the evening, and on Saturday. I changed back to the aggressive formula, after years (at their urging) on the “moderately aggressive” formula. I would have spent my entire life on the very aggressive formula if they had not always … More The future

Fan base

09/01/2018

Here is more for my article on the language of neoliberalism: for sports teams, one no longer says fans but “fan base.” The marketing department has taken over, and the “fan base” isn’t the fans but the media- and marketing catchment area. Axé.

Bullies

03/01/2018

“I think you should sell that [your] house and get out of that town.” “You cannot know when you will have to leave your [tenured] job. You may not get to be the one who chooses that.” “You cannot know that you will live to be old. Even if all the members of your family … More Bullies

Linux wireless

03/01/2018

Networkmanager should do the job for you if you have the right module for your wireless adapter configured in your kernel. Way better than it was in the old days. Look at dmesg to see if the module came up correctly when it booted. Here is mon problème: I’ve been lazy learning all these Linux … More Linux wireless

Noam Chomsky

01/01/2018

Here we have a piece on Chomsky to read. Here we have the first month of Hattie‘s blog, November 2005. I started three months later, in February, 2006, and Hattie died in November, 2017. This means we have twelve years of blog posts from Hattie to review, 144 months. This month, this year, every day … More Noam Chomsky