“Head space” is one of the most annoying fucken terms in the english language. This is not 1969, and we’re not in the Haight. Is there really something wrong with all the other ways to refer to one’s mental state?
Monthly Archive: January 2011
Jan 21 2011
“Publishing Strategy”
It is good to thinke about “publishing strategy” in relation to projects in your labbe, but it is dangerous to do this too soon. For example, a commenter at Professor in Training’s blogge relates the following: I worried that starting every one-on-one meeting talking about publishing strategy, even when the student barely has data for …
Jan 21 2011
Peeve of the Day
For motherfucken fucke’s sake, when you send a fucken e-mail announcing a motherfucken seminar, could you put the motherfucken date, time, location, speaker name, and title in the re: line and/or text of the motherfucken e-mail and not just in a motherfucken attachment? Is this too much to fucken aske? Do you really think it …
Jan 18 2011
Thought For The Day
One of the best things about college basketball is the squeaking of all the sneakers on the fucken court.
Jan 17 2011
Twitter And Scholarly Discourse
Roxie’s World has an outstanding post up concerning the role that twitter played at this big MLA (Modern Language Assembly?) humanities shindig that just happened in LA. She takes a balanced view on the roles of twitter as a communication medium for scholars, but also expresses some concerns. For example, of the approximately 7000 tweets …
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