January 2011
13 posts
“Following music took real work if you happened to 1) be under 18, 2) live in a...”
– From an A.V. Club series about grunge music in the ’90s.
This quote perfectly articulates my frustrations with music-listening and band-finding when I was in middle school and high school. It’s late and I’m tired and I don’t have enough brain cells currently gathered to properly think this...
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all in favor?
“Perhaps in the futility of undergraduate careerism lie the seeds of a new vocational outlook in higher education. It is worth remembering that monasteries were the first institutions in the West that allowed people to explore options beyond the circumstances into which they were born. […] Why not bring together a core group of serious-minded but underemployed academics—who already...
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geek-love
I finally started reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. In the first few pages there are two references to Tolkien (even a deep cut reference to the Silmarillion) within the context of adolescent romance and bloody dictatorships. I think I’m going to enjoy this book =)
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“The sciences are most successful when they seek to move from the diversity and...”
– from Crane, R.S. “The Idea of the Humanities.” The Idea of the Humanities and Other Essays Critical and Historical. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. (h/t Wayne Bivens-Tatum)
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Cheers!
And for tonight’s schedule, we have a variety of wheat beers and applications for home loans. Let the house buying begin!
Democratic bow ties
kabillieu:
johnxlibris:
Not everyone who wears a bow tie is an overgrown republican frat boy. Some of us are commie-loving, tree-hugging liberal with occasional extremist tendencies… we just can’t grow facial hair. Just sayin’
I was NOT, I repeat, NOT knocking TC’s bow tie. In fact, I hate TC for taking the bow tie and trying to douche-ruin its excellent reputation as a masculine and yet...
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Democratic bow ties
Not everyone who wears a bow tie is an overgrown republican frat boy. Some of us are commie-loving, tree-hugging liberals with occasional extremist tendencies… we just can’t grow facial hair. Just sayin’
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“People generally overestimate how distinct their own lives are, so the...”
– from the New Yorker: Social Animal, by David Brooks.
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Stephen Ramsay on digital humanities
“As humanists, we are inclined to read maps (to pick one example) as texts, as instruments of cultural desire, as visualizations of imperial ideology, as records of the emergence of national identity, and so forth. This is all very good. In fact, I would say it’s at the root of what it means to engage in humanistic inquiry. Almost everyone in Digital Humanities was taught to do this and...
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“While the ostensibly “simple” commercial ebook voice may raise user expectations...”
– Char Booth, A Rising Tide: The Academic User and the Ebook Experience.