Else-If-Then

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  • A funny thing I found today…

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    My dissertation is available online at ProQuest, linked from a slick page in the UMass Amherst (Where I did my graduate work) library. At first I thought this was kind of cool, until I found that a) they are charging people $41 for an unbound paper copy, and b) they are using a really low…

  • More good news

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    So now both of the panels I proposed to IR 9.0 have been accepted, which means that one of my book projects can really go forward–a collection of these papers and a few more I will invite from some other people I know who work on this stuff and who might be interested. Fingers crossed…

  • Fun at the PCA

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    Well, a quick update on the conference and I’ll write more later. Before attending anything I met up with David Silver who runs the RCCS and we share coffee and what turned out to be my nearest thing to lunch. David’s even nicer (and much taller 🙂 )in person than online and it was a…

  • Research Update

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    Let’s see…first the bad news: didn’t get the Franklin Grant. It’s really competitive and I know I did the best proposal I could, so while I wish I’d gotten it, I don’t feel so bad. I talked with some colleagues and the consensus seems to be that getting grants is really almost impossible until after…

  • Catching up a bit

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    So, last term got completely crazy toward the end. In addition to the stuff I usually might have to do–teach, direct the comp. program, do a little research and writing–I also have been trying to write some grant proposals, organize a conference, and chair a search committee. Oh yeah, and I had to do a…

  • Back at Last

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    I have been swamped for the last month with first work that had to be done absent my home computer, and then with travels and research. But Now I am catching up with it all, and with the blog. I’ll post a real entry later tonight and more still this week. Look for discussion of…

  • In a sort of mourning

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    Sadly I report the theft of my laptop–a 2005 powerbook pro. 🙁 I had just about all of the data backed up, but now I can’t really work at home and more than anything else, I miss my slim, silver mac. I hadn’t realized the extent to which I was really sort of living in…

  • European Science fiction meet-up

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    Ok, so my going to SFRA 08 is not looking so good, unless I get major grant money. But we’ll see. I and my partner in crime have had several discussions about investing in our own research, so maybe… In any case, I’ve been talking a bit to Sandor Klapcsik (who doesn’t seem to have…

  • Favorite foods and identity

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    During my visit to Portland (Maine) I enjoyed the chance to eat many of the foods that are hard to find in my little Central Valley city. I had sushi, Indian food, organic pizza and of course lobster, plus lots of different microbrew beers. Of course, Portland isn’t as diverse as some cities; it’s relatively…

  • Finally news on my blogging chapter, and identity projects more genrally

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    Quick burst of good news: finally I’ve heard from the editor of International Blogging; it’s coming out from Peter Lang in 2008 and my chapter will be the conclusion. 🙂 A draft of the intro is here. It’s weird; I wrote this so long ago and now that it’s appearing, my work has moved on…