Monthly Archives: February 2008

it’s still sunny

… and the crocuses look even better: I don’t quite understand how things work here. I’ve been told that Oxford is most likely to get snow in March. So, if it’s spring in January, does that mean that the order … Continue reading

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Warning: A cynical post

I managed to get myself on a student advising board for the library here on campus, and I have to say, I’m learning some interesting things. One of them is that I am no longer cool enough to work in … Continue reading

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Weekend adventures

On Friday Ithaca experienced an ice storm.  Cornell very helpfully sent out an email saying that the university was not closing, but that conditions were really, really, really bad.  Thank you, my dear university, for putting the onus on your … Continue reading

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intolerance

So Nicholas D. Kristof writes a column in the NYTimes about how liberals should perhaps stop mocking evangelicals and instead realize that they actually share certain goals and could work together on those. Now it seems to me that this … Continue reading

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spring

Winters around here are pretty wimpy. Crocuses, snowdrops, cyclamen, cherry trees, winter aconites, and several things I can’t identify are in bloom here. And I’m not talking about greenhouses. Here’s the view out the kitchen window this morning: Not that … Continue reading

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new education provider

Maybe my CV would look stronger if I added an A-level from McDonald’s … Sydney

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principled voting

So I see that white voters are consistently voting for anybody but Obama (with the exception of whites in Iowa), black voters are consistently voting for Obama, old people are consistently voting for McCain, young people are consistently voting for … Continue reading

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