Not of General Interest

If you ask me a series of technical questions in a group email, and I jump right on it and spend 20 minutes answering them, and then you a...

Figure 1. Edmund Wilson's version of auto-reply. There's been a movement afoot to light on fire, in Twitter terms, anyway, anyon...

I've been on campus for a few things recently, and while it's nice to be missed (it really is!), the downside is realizing that the ...

Still plodding along, still working hard, and still relishing a sabbatical that's almost over--that's what's going on here.  In ...

Deborah K. Fitzgerald's "Our Hallways are Too Quiet" at The Chronicle asks, in effect, "Haloooo? Is anybody there? Where...

Figure 1. Thoreau could walk around Walden Pond  with a notebook and a pencil he made himself. He knew that the hand  was connected to t...

In an essay that's making the rounds of social media, here's another kind of writing group:  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/op...

For the first time since my dream about the Mad Men writing group and Dame Eleanor's group a few years back, I am in a writing group....

Some of you may remember, in 2013, that Mark Sample , a ProfHacker writer, thought it would be amusing to pull an internet prank in which he...

Thank you, sincerely, for all the useful things you all post on Twitter. I mean it. I learn a lot every day about resources that are availab...

As the long winter of our discontent drags on, I struggle to find something to say here that isn't simply repeating the several millio...

I haven't posted here or over at my Real Name blog in forever--well, a month, anyway, and haven't even been reading many blogs becau...

In the comments on the last post, Gwinne had asked about what I'd done with my time on sabbatical. Reading all the Facebook, blog, a...

In the spirit of those old commercials that said "don't hate me because I'm beautiful," I christen this post "don...

I was so sorry to see, on Twitter and Inside Higher Ed, a report on the death of Scott Eric Kaufmann, who wrote at Acephalous , Lawyers, G...

In Hamilton, the second act is--let's just say very, very sad. Lin-Manuel Miranda calls it a "cryfest," and he wrote it, so he...

Nicoleandmaggie have some links for giving . It's what we can do now to help. If you have not heard Kate McKinnon's powerful rendi...

Well, the chipper feeling of that last post didn't last long. I didn't see this coming, did you? In academia, we knew it couldn...

Go and vote, if you haven't already! It's an inspiring day, isn't it? How could you not be a little choked up at all the peopl...

Figure 1. It got your attention, didn't it? This little number--"Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads"--was a...