Not of General Interest

Late this afternoon, as I was on the treadmill, the ABC news came on and trumpeted a vital piece of information. No, it wasn't that cars...

Recently, I was in a meeting with a colleague when he commented that a grad student "must have gotten bad advice from her advisor"...

I've been thinking about John Cheever's story "The Enormous Radio" lately because of experiences that remind me of it. The...

Most absorbing pastime of the last few days : trying to make the hypothetical fax modem in my computer act like a fax machine. Most frustra...

It's been a long week, and, Friday being the traditional night to cut loose and enjoy yourself, I didn't hold back, as you'll se...

We now have access to Proquest Historical Newspapers (well, the NY Times), and I am deeply thankful. I've spent some time just running ...

This week has been all about the job candidates, and our department is not done yet. As a member of the search committee, I've had to b...

Driving home tonight, I listened to NPR and heard that someone has invented astroturf with fiber optic strands embedded so that now commerci...

From the CHE: an "expert in pedagogy"* talking about blogs : I began to feel overloaded, too. Don't get me wrong. I love blogs...

What kinds of days make you stop at the store for chocolate-covered almonds when you haven't had any candy in the house since Christmas?...

First, let me say this: I'm enjoying the students this semester, and several have proven themselves to be sharp readers of texts. They...

It has snowed here in a major way (I will try to post pictures), and while this is child's play compared to the snow that happens in Sn...

Via Planned Obsolescence : an Inside Higher Ed column by Scott McLemee on the blogging session and Scott Eric Kaufmann's paper . It also...

Blogrolling.com hates us. At least it hates most of us; it seems to like jo(e) and Making Light, but otherwise it hasn't indicated a...

Thomas Hart Benton at the Chronicle of Higher Education on the academic job market: When will there be stern talks about closing down all t...

Scott Eric Kaufman at Acephalous writes about the distinction between "academic blogging" and "academics who blog": The...

Not much to report; it's the first week of classes, and the syllabi for the classes *did* get done, my usual fears to the contrary. For ...

The only way to write is to live in it (the writing). Or maybe more correctly: The only way I can write is to live in it. This wouldn't ...

While everyone else has been writin g terrific post-MLA posts , after getting back late on New Year's Eve I've been trying to ...

My meeting got out a little early, so I was able to catch the last two papers of the "Meet the Bloggers" session. Since others wh...