Bardiac

comes to my office. Because, what evidently happens to many students around here is that they go home to work for a week at the local whatev...

So I hear computer people talking about "the cloud." What exactly is "the cloud" and how does it work? I know it's ...

Over the past couple of days, I've several times run across, mostly in blogs, the suggestion that someone turn to Jameson. Here's wh...

I was half awake this morning and heard this report on NPR about the admissions process at Amherst . Did you hear it? I couldn't help wo...

William Cronon, the guy the non-historians among us might know best for his fine essay "'Only Connect':The Goals of a Liberal E...

I finally managed a contribution over at the Pseudonymous Exchange: Double Guest Exchange . Imitating other people's style is something...

I've wondered this for a long time. You know how the notes for texts never answer the really hard questions? Well here's one for m...

Last week: Here That same area, today: It's the sort of thing that helps make evolution so darned cool, because under that snow, the c...

I got my bike back from the shop today after it's annual spring tune-up. It got a new chain and a new rear casette. My chain is so cle...

I graded the journals. The assignment is borrowed mostly from Sisyphus ; I'd asked the students to choose the most important word in a ...

I expect to come to the office three or four days this week, during our break week. I have a ton of work to do and this is a place I can do...

Yesterday, when I got home, it was like the garden had popped. There were crocuses coming up all over, and not just barely out of the groun...

One of the candidates we hired this year is visiting today to look for a place to live and show a partner the community. This is a really g...

I was looking at a course syllabus that purported to represent a bunch of European culture, and had a section on "race, class, and gend...

Was it that hard? Are there just too many three headed giants out there in romances?

Could someone tell me, please, just when it was I became an old fogey? Because I went to a talk today, and I've either become an old fog...

sonnet #60 isn't really about how grateful the speaker is to God, unless you can explain how you get there a whole lot better than you d...

Edit to add: See, I think this is as good as my stick figure lit ever gets. Is it just too darned obscure?

All of a sudden, it feels like spring. I looked out the window and saw the first Robin this morning, and a few minutes later, I saw the fir...

I've realized over the past couple of days, since Sunday morning, really, that I tend to step forward first with my right leg. I'd ...