If you’ve never heard of Louise Chandler Moulton, you’re not alone. She was a 19th-century American poet who held a salon and knew the Pre-Raphaelites. She’s all but unknown nowadays. But I encountered this poem of hers in a course on Victorian women writers, and I’ve never forgotten it: Where the Night’s Pale Roses Blow […]
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It’s midpoint in the quarter at Drexel. I’m just beginning to get freaked out over all the assignments that have to be turned in over the next couple of weeks. So, naturally, it’s time to obsess over future knitting projects! Earlier this fall I decided that this year, I would manage to knit a sweater […]
[I’m using a vacation day to catch up on coursework and catch my breath. Hence the flurry of school-related posts this afternoon.] In my Content Representation class this week, our professor touched on semantic networks, and the amount of knowledge that can be represented by linking a set of concepts and terms via specific types […]
The scene: Monday evening. A lab classroom in Drexel’s Rush Building. The mid-class break is in progress. Three people on one side of the room are looking at something on the web and cracking up. A fourth (yours truly) is peering over their shoulders. Classmate #4: Wait, is that the blog about quotation marks?Classmate #1, […]
Detailed information about this year’s Met movie broadcast season is finally up. There are two venues in Philly, including one I can readily get to in University City. Whoopee! Oh, and Rigoletto at the Academy of Music was great — they did an especially good job casting the three principals (Chen Reiss wowed us all […]
All I have to say about "Lagretta Gradgrind"’s column in the Chronicle of Higher Education on why she’s no longer advising graduate students is this: Thank God she wasn’t my adviser. Some of the grad student behaviors she objects to are eminently objectionable. But what chaps my hide is that along with the dissertation-plagiarizers, sloppy […]
It seems like the universe has been strewing my path with kittens lately. To wit: The barbershop a few blocks from where I live has adopted a marmalade-striped kitten, which is already starting to grow up into a marmalade tabby cat. Often when I pass by, I’ll see the kitten napping in the store window, […]
Dale of mole has been posting about poetry and memorization, and how it makes poetry “available when we are in the moment of need or desire.” I can’t resist following that lead. It’s a subject on which I’ve now written about a ream of academic prose, but my fascination with poetry’s memorability goes back much farther than my choice […]
I’ve chosen my topic for my thesaurus for Content Representation: it’s going to be about knitting. In addition to helping me get back into a knitting frame of mind as I figure out what my next big project is, it’ll furnish me with an excuse to acquire a few new knitting books. (For the terminology, […]
Today I saw a student wearing a "Schroedinger’s cat is dead" shirt. (Hint: look at the back view as well as the front view.) I want one for myself now. Actually, ThinkGeek shirts are quite popular among my iSchool classmates; I’ve also been thinking about getting this one. I’m still waiting for someone to put […]