The Prior-Art-O-Matic randomly generates product descriptions, producing some splendidly surreal results: Design #1752498960It’s a cigarette lighter that’s made of solid gold! It induces lucid dreaming and runs on compressed air. Design #4258102746It’s a saucepan that can disable electrical hardware, emits heat and runs on six little wheels. (I’m picturing it racing madly across a countertop […]
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I hadn’t visited Relevant History in a while, but I see that Alex Pang, like me, is hooked on The Amazing Race. Personally, I don’t think Mirna and Charla were as detestable a duo as Colin and Christie. Well, primarily Colin. If Christie develops some common sense and dumps her ugly-American boyfriend, there may be […]
And in honor of my recently unpacked yarn stash: sexy knitting from Knitty! I bet I could use a pair of fishnets. And the whip that doubles as a belt is pure genius. Cindy commented here earlier that knitters and librarians have both become sexy of late. Librarians who knit are, of course, doubly sexy.
This is in honor of my finally having unpacked my books and filled my bookshelves. I’d almost forgotten I had a copy of this lovely little anthology of Imagist poetry, but I was very happy to dig it out of the bottom of a box. My mother had this book when I was growing up, […]
It’s that time of year again, and even we postacademics are dreaming about school. Dorothea’s account of her grad-school dream suggests that such dreams never quite go away. Sure enough, a couple of nights ago, my unconscious dredged up a vague but anxiety-ridden scene in which a nameless, faceless professor and I were looking at […]
I’m still furnitureless, and the apartment still smells of smoke, but the landlords have promised to send someone around tomorrow to check the vents and figure out what else needs to be done. Which is good, because I was having visions of myself going slowly mad, "Yellow Wallpaper"-style, trying to find the source of the […]
I’m back in Charlottesville, and I’ve just moved into my new apartment, the one I’ll be staying in for the rest of the year. The trip homeward from Pennsylvania was instructive, in that I made two major discoveries: that unless you lift weights regularly, it’s a bad idea to test your strength by trying to […]
So, this seminar that my fellow postdocs and I have been attending has been just swell in all kinds of ways. Here are a few of the things I’ve learned: 1. Librarians are the salt of the earth. (I knew this already, but it’s always helpful to have existing knowledge illustrated with splendid particular examples.) […]
There’s going to be a big happy post — about my new career path, the CLIR seminar, life, the universe, and everything — coming down the pike before too long. But first, I would like to note that I now have a new plan for this Halloween: instead of dressing as Jack Sparrow, I’m seriously […]
The drawback to the quasi-blogging-break I’ve been on this past month (which is almost over — for real this time!) is that I’m still thinking about things to post about, even when I’m not actually posting about them. So some of the topics I’ve been mulling are probably going to sound a tad stale when […]