Given the diversity of talents who over the years contributed cartoons to The New Yorker, it may be surprising to learn that everything in our large cartoon bank has, for the sake of easy reference, been reduced to a dozen or so categories…The categories were as follows: arts and galleries; bars and drinking; birds, fish, …
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Two projects, two fuzzy ideas, two lit review processes
The 696 independent study is starting out as a literature review of risk in institutional repositories — where it’s perceived to lie, and, what’s interesting to me, who makes the actual decisions? The OAIS model defines the functions of an archival process but leaves the specifics of implementation to each institution. So, for various managerial …
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It always amazes me how few people go to graduate school, who actually enjoy studying. Marginal Revolution: Should you go to graduate school in a recession? Source: marginalrevolution.com
The day I got no research done
I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry [1] and start researching. The Maternalistical Cassidy wheels in with Anastasia and asks if I have lunch plans. I pack up my stuff and we go to lunch (very pleasant). I unpack my stuff in the SILS liberry and start researching. People people people walk by and …
There’s a similarity in the quality of the daily life” on the road and in the monastery, Mr. Cohen said. “There’s just a sense of purpose” in which “a lot of extraneous material is naturally and necessarily discarded,” and what is left is a “rigorous and severe” routine in which “the capacity to focus becomes …
Assorted links
Haunting poem. Leddy on academic entitlement. Why I don’t use “lol” in emails. Example 2 is the killer. Brooks on the benevolent power of institutional thinking. Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? Wonder no more with the Ground Zero Calculator. [via Librarian of Fortune]
Lavers on The Simple Life
My previous post Fred Stutzman and Facebook reminded me of an essay from the May/August 2000 issue of North American Review. The essay I tore out and kept in my “Essays” folder lo these many years was by the writer Norman Lavers, now retired from teaching English and enthusiastically maintaining a site on The Robber …
Unit Structures
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Fred Stutzman is a PhD student at SILS and the creator of numerous good things, among them ClaimID and the Mac-based Freedom (which I used today to good effect). He has a blog, Unit Structures, and tends to post announcements of upcoming events or good ‘n’ chewy postings related …
What does this tell us? I mean, other than .. Steve McQueen is a badass? Being an expert isn’t telling other people what you know. It’s understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction. Coding Horror: Are You …
Orange Crate Art: Charles Darwin has a posse Source: mleddy.blogspot.com
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