Okay, so there’s death, taxes, and last minute crazy scrambles before conference travel. I know this. I’ve known this since 1984, when I was taken to my first 4Cs [no, that has nothing to do the official anything of the Davis family]. Why I ever imagine it will be different is beyond me.
But still…
Anyway, I [...]
Archive for March, 2008
One long night before the good times roll
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged assignments, chaos, conferences, Teaching, travel on 31 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trophy hunting while grading
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, tagged Festival of Bad Writing, grading, procrastination devices, Teaching on 30 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s contestant in the Festival of Bad Writing:
“Only in a research article will a reader be able to find an
example that is shown above relating towards graphical information;
which can create a table to better understand.”
Long before there were blogs, long before the web was populated by advertisers, I’d wanted to have an online [...]
Garden thought: Pink Violets
Posted in Gardening, tagged Gardening, violets on 29 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I brought some of these from the previous garden, and they did survive the winter. But last year’s batch were more photogenic:
Fun with obsolete spellings
Posted in Introductions, Uncategorized, tagged Introductions, Lady Rhetoric, language on 29 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Reth”o*ryke (?), n. Rhetoric. [Obs.] Chaucer. (from the Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913)
I never had to read Chaucer in the original language; I wasn’t that sort of English major. On the other hand, the multiple spellings of Rhethoric, Rhetoric, Reythorike, have always entertained me. So also, the range of pronunciations: “Re-tor-ic”, “Reh-tor-ic”, and [...]
Elsinore, where the wind comes sweeping down the …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CopterCopter, Elsinore, internal stereo, weather on 28 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I guess I was spoiled, living for years in a wooded area in the lee of a hill. Wind gusts of 40+ mph are fairly frequent around here.
Outside the house, that means large branches from trees I don’t own become frequent projectiles. Inside the house, it means we learn new sources of draftiness on a [...]
Bible, Brick, or Toaster?
Posted in CopterCopter, tagged CopterCopter, Elsinore, neighbors on 28 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many of the Elsinoreans are quiet folk. They tend their tomato plants in the front yard, they plant chrysanthemums in the alleyway. Together we retrieve the flotsam left from college students staggering back to their campuses after Thursday night pubcrawls.
And then, there is the raucous revival meeting/episode of Soul Train that happens sporadically, [...]
Observations, not answers
Posted in Introductions, tagged CopterCopter, Elsinore, fish, PolyMirror, Thory on 28 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are actually at least three blogs lurking beneath the surface here:
CopterCopter: Stories from urban Elsinore
PolyMirror: Reflections on a young craft
I’m not Thory: Exasperation as an art form
We’ll see which of these, if any, actually leap into the air, like fish, and fly.
Porque CopterCopter?
Posted in CopterCopter, tagged CopterCopter, Elsinore, news on 28 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the curious things about life in Elsinore [aside from the total lack of Danish princes] is the range of helicopter species which regularly buzz the area. At least twice a day, there’s some sort metal mosquito hovering around, but we rarely get any news that explains what has happened, or why they [...]
