I’m feeling very very bitter that UPS didn’t leave my package of yarn for me today. I’ve taken up knitting, I intend to learn to purl over the weekend. I ordered a ton of yarn off the internet too, hence my missing package. My hobbies aren’t too exciting since they consist of reading, movie watching, […]

My little sister (the one who posts comments as “D the Elder” here) is blogging now.

Although I love Nausicaa, I do not think I would want to pilot this replica of her glider. via anime.org.uk
I don’t think I’m going to see Passion of the Christ. Mostly because I really don’t care about Jesus. If someone would just make a movie about Dogen, I’d see that. But I do care deeply […]

One thing I sometimes struggle with is how much information to give students when they e-mail me with problems about their research. I know we are supposed to teach students to find information themselves, but sometimes it is just better to send someone an answer directly. I had a student who was in a class […]

Yikes! The insane owner of the most wonderful basketball team ever with a forward/center from Germany is getting his own reality tv show. The show is called “The Benefactor” and he gives away 1 million dollars to the winner.
I want some of that Mark Cuban money. I wonder if I applied to get on […]

I am so sleepy. I had an early morning meeting today with some Faculty. I am always amused at the way a Faculty member will not say anything in 5 minutes that they could say in 15-20 minutes. I am not a morning person. I’m going to bed soon, it is 7:30 pm. I know […]

After seeing Steve’s Blogdigger group for library blogs, I wanted to check it out for myself, so I made a Blogdigger group for comics blogs. It was really easy to set-up! I’m going to experiment with it some more, I’ve often wanted a Lisfeeds for comics blogs, and this might serve that purpose for me […]

Well, I bought the first issue and it seemed good enough, in that Marvel retelling origin stories sort of way. I think if I already get Ultimate Spiderman AND Ultimate X-men, I don’t need to get any more Ultimate. Seems ultimate enough to me. However, if Warren Ellis is going to write Ultimate Fantastic Four, […]

My teaching load is lighter in the spring semester, mostly because the department I work with is offering fewer classes. The students tend to have assignments focusing more on a specific theme or subject, so it is a good excuse to show them the more discipline specific databases or the subject encyclopedias I wish they […]

I could see how a project like this might make a few people run out and buy copies of the cds that fueled the remix. I mean, I’d be curious to see if the remix of “Change Clothes” is actually using the harpsichord track from “Little Piggies”. I don’t know how EMI can stop it […]