Thinking back to more or less a year ago, I realize it’s become a pattern: in early spring, get on the waiting list for a Tuesday Evening Concert featuring a mezzo I don’t know as well as I could; luck out and get a great seat within bouquet-tossing distance of the performers; spend the evening […]
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I’m going to hear Magdalena Kozená sing tomorrow night! Gluck, Rameau, Rebel, and some as-yet-unannounced Mozart. Huzzah for other people’s last-minute ticket cancellations! I think I’m going to be pretty close to the stage, too. Cole Swensen’s poems are hard to describe: you never know where she’s going subjectwise, but the way she breaks up […]
(This is the second part in a series of posts. Part 1 is below. And, just to disclaim clearly in advance: I’m talking specifically about humanities research here, where most of the evidence a researcher works with consists of documents of some kind or other. The sciences are a whole other ballgame.) During the CLIR fellows’ seminar two […]
I have an idea for colleges and universities looking to do a quick-and-dirty website usability check: Recruit every newly hired employee to provide feedback on their experience using your site. Hand them a questionnaire, convene them in focus groups with food as a bribe for participation,* whatever — I bet you’ll garner a ton of […]
I hadn’t been to Jeannette’s blog, Moot Thoughts & Musings, for a while, so I didn’t catch this post on the research process when it first appeared, but it rang quite a few bells of recognition. Jeannette, who was writing a paper at the time, comments: I can’t figure how to assess a database. I […]
It’s been snowing all morning, and even though it doesn’t really seem to be accumulating, I think I’ll stay in today enjoying the snow-day vibe. I’m listening to Studio 360 on the radio, and they’re talking about psychoanalysis by way of W. H. Auden’s "In Memory of Sigmund Freud," which I was very pleased to […]
Found via Bardiac: If there is someone on your blogroll who makes your world a better place just because that person exists and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence on your blog. (Explains Bardiac: Copy the sentence without naming which bloggers you’re […]
Crikey. Florida doctor’s office prescribes ‘ex-gay’ treatment. That’s right. A doctor’s office. Somehow, I don’t think the American Medical Association recommends verses from Leviticus as a treatment for bronchitis. What’s that old saying about how it’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you? I’m just glad I’m not applying for any jobs […]
I was having one of those headless-chicken workdays today. I have them on occasion. Probably everyone who works in an job involving multiple responsibilities, everyone who spends a lot of time staring at a monitor, has days like this. There I was, spasmodically switching (and twitching) from one task to another, half a dozen different […]
Jane Dark of Evensong Martini Club points to, and responds to, the best meme ever: if you were going to a literary speed dating evening, what three books would you bring? It’s the sort of question that immediately provokes second-guessing, because one has to think carefully about the the impression one’s books make. Will my […]