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In case you are wondering why I’m posting pictures of garden produce in the middle of January, know that: a) we don’t have a digital camera, so I’m working off the film that I get developed (and put on CD) … Continue reading →

I don’t like to move. As much as I love to organize, throw out stuff, pack, and set up house, I really, quite honestly, would prefer to stay in one place forever. Travel, by all means, but don’t move. When … Continue reading →

I’ll be off in a few minutes to a weekend conference on philosophy of religion at Rutgers, where I’m supposed to comment on a paper about supervenience. Not that I know anything much about the arcana of supervenience. I’m not … Continue reading →

“A married woman should fold one hand over the other at the table, the better to show off her jewels.” – From a NYT article about the resurgence of etiquette education in France. When I read that quotation aloud, Sydney … Continue reading →

Tonight Sydney sat down and taught me basic HTML. Nothing fancy, but he helped me set up a page for all of the links I want to keep handy. A few notable things about this: 1) I, the young’un, took … Continue reading →

Having a chickadee perch on one’s ear feels interesting. Sydney

Name a very prominent American political figure who was born in the Midwest and was a devout evangelical who spent much time on the lecture circuit defending the Christian faith and arguing that religion is the only reliable foundation for … Continue reading →

I just got the student evaluations for the section that I TAed last semester. Here are my favourite two comments from the section on what I should have done differently: 1) “Correct a lot of the crap said more strictly” … Continue reading →