Else-If-Then

Category: me

  • Quick update

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    For a variety of reasons (some will be elaborated later; most will not) I have fallen behind on my entries, especially on writing up the interviews. Fear not. Posting will resume shortly.

  • Talk at University of Twente

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    Now it’s official; I will give a talk at University of Twente on June 25th. Here’s the blurb: A preliminary report on how scholars perceive their social network/audience on Facebook, and what effect the risk of and real border-crossing or transgressive behavior has for them personally and professionally with their colleagues. –So in other words…

  • "The Highly Coveted Desktop Structural Achievement Award 2007-08"

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    Here is the text of the speech with which I was honored for my creation of truly marvelous chaos: I confess to aspiring for this award for several years and those of you who know me and have witnessed the temple of bureaucratic agglutination that I’ve created in L195D can bear out this aspiration. When…

  • Long Distance

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    I can remember back in 1999 or so I was first making friends online, and at the time people around me expressed surprise that I would really count any of these online acquaintances as friends. And of course not all them were or became friends, but some did. Now, almost 10 years later I am…

  • Award-winning Chaos

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    Award-winning ChaosOriginally uploaded by cuuixsilver So my college (humanities and social sciences) had the end-of-term meeting and awards ceremony. The recent (and ongoing) stress of budget cuts, and the just-this-week-resolved stress of the Retention/Promotion/Tenure (RPT) process has left people pretty punchy, so while most of the awards were quite serious, a few were NOT. –And…

  • Lovewell’s Pond

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    Lovell’s Pond 2007 Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver The semester winds down and soon we will leave for the northeast, for our camp on Lovewell’s Pond. My mother’s family built a place their in 1906 and we still go there every summer. Very little has changed; we still pump drinking water by hand from the well,…

  • I guess they’re keeping me another year

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    So I’ve finally got the word from the powers on high that I have been retained in my job next year. Now I just have to make it through the actual tenure review in Spring 09… And even though the issue has been been debated across disciplines for decades now, still there is little recognition…

  • Unplugged

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    So yeah, spent all last Thursday and some of Friday wrapping that up. Yesterday I gardened–so glad to be in a place where I feel like investing some gardening energy. In Massachusetts I left a trail of gardens behind me, but not here. Coming out here, I was of course busy, but no one gardens…

  • Fun with NEH online submission forms

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    Submission is the right word for it, that’s for sure! You must fill in these pdfs exactly the right way, with attachments in exactly the right order, without going over the unspecified-but-definitely-there character count in the text boxes, you must get lucky while uploading to grants.gov, and of course you must save everything every 2…

  • nothing like reading back over your dissertation…

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    To inspire at best that oh-so-pleasant feeling of wanting to sink through the floor. Since I decided to reformat my dissertation and put it online for free, I found it really was not possible to do that without actually reading any of it again. And boy was that fun. Yeah. I think some of the…