2010 02 01 tweets
Replying to @rachaelsullivan
Yes! Calling out untenured faculty on their caution is a form of victim-blaming. That said, change can & shd percolate up.
Replying to @ryancordell
I embedded my Google Calendar, which is tied to my Tungle acct: http://bit.ly/5frhTY
Having an insane amount to do has made me crazily efficient. Which is awesome and all, but I'd be happier with sanity.
Replying to @karikraus
Completely stolen from @jbj, I think, at @ProfHacker.
Replying to @karikraus
Actually, looking back, it's @jbj's absence policy I stole, and @drnels's late work policy. Go @ProfHacker!
No, I am not getting antsy about my one day overdue review letters. Why do you ask?
\[checks email\.\.\.checks email\.\.\.checks email\]
Ask and ye shall receive. Letter 1 just walked in the door.
Am absolutely blown away.
Replying to @rachaelsullivan and @phdaisy
Absolutely good! I'm stunned by the generosity of my colleagues and students. It's a bit overwhelming.
Replying to @mmwwah
Happiness. 100%. It's pretty overwhelming.
Replying to @eetempleton
My fave: Him: Valerie? Me: I'm afraid you have the wrong number. Him: No, I don't. Is this [wrong#]? Me: No. Him: Oh. Click.
Replying to @midwinter_
Good news, I hope?
Replying to @amandafrench
Hey, so is it possible to bust it out of that Adobe whosawhatsit and export it to an open\(er\) format?
Replying to @amandafrench
Well, rats.
Replying to @midwinter_
Yay! Congrats!
At the vet with cat # 2, who has lost 25% of her body weight. Running tests. Poor little thing.
Okay, no Twitter for me until Lost airs on the west coast, apparently. You east coasters are trouble.
Zotero on LifeHacker: http://bit.ly/bBy2yV
Replying to @theorymeg
If you're a Firefox user, I highly recommend Zotero - it's portable, flexible, social, and open-source...
Replying to @captain_primate
I've tried for years to come up with such a thing; if you find one, please let me know...
Replying to @nirak
Oh, no! I'm so sorry.
GRRRR.
Replying to @jmittell and @d_kompare
I booked a room at the Standard, too; don't know if I'll use it or just train in everyday, but if you're there...
Replying to @d_kompare
I'm not sure as yet; I think I've got a conflict. Will keep you posted!
Replying to @mmwwah
The shorter letter # 2: "We Have Never Done It This Way Before."
Replying to @jmittell
Hence the possible hotel stay. :)
The shorter letter # 2: "We Have Never Done It This Way Before."
Hey, it's #snowpocalypse out there, and it's... like... sorta... drizzling here! See, we have weather, too!
My life is a big old sack of irony right now. Unfortunately, it's irony in the Alanis Morissette sense.
Replying to @CatinStack
Hugs gratefully accepted, in any sense! \(But getting to be either Elton or Gaga in this analogy would be awesome\.\)
Replying to @ncecire
Quick! Apply one chorus of Sister Christian!
Replying to @alicejrobison
I'll be there, but alas, only Saturday, as I'll be flying back from a talk at Michigan...
Just purged my Gmail account of an enormous amount of old listserv mail. Feel megabytes lighter.
WHODAT!!!
Oh. My. Freaking. God. They're going to do this! #whodat!!!
Dear DC: I am coming to visit Thursday, and live in a place without weather. Would be great if you could clear that snow out by then. Thx!
Replying to @CapitolClio
Which is most directly and immediately the problem: no snow boots. So completely not prepared for this...
Replying to @brettbobley
All I'm really asking for is a dry non-slip pathway from the Henley Park Hotel to the Old Post Office. The rest I can sort out.
Replying to @footnotesrising
Ugh, yes. Will do.
Replying to @jmittell
Hi from Southern California!
Help, tweeps! When Said mentions a "conception of the text as existing entirely within a hermetic, Alexandrian textual universe"... [1/2]
...what does "Alexandrian" signify? Is it the school of theology that's being referenced? What about it? How does Alexandrian=hermetic?
Replying to @jwolman
Ha!
Replying to @cscannella
Possibly. The closest ref I'm coming up with is the Alexandrian poets, who used masses of allusions in their work, but I dunno.
Replying to @jsench
I was wondering if it was that, but couldn't quite parse it. The following phrase is "having no connection with actuality"... [1/2]
Replying to @jsench
which made me think it was Alexandrian poets & their propensity for allusion. And perhaps less the New Testament? But I dunno. [2/2]
Replying to @plragde
It's one of 3 possibilities I can see: the library, the poets \(who loved allusion\), or the text-type of some New Testament mss.
Replying to @plragde
Perhaps. But is hermeticness really the thing we associate with the library of Alexandria, rather than its destruction?
Replying to @plragde
From the Alex. school: "their style is often bad, and great patience is required to clear up their numerous and obscure allusions"
Replying to @plragde
Oh, you have no idea how much I wish I could. Must annotate for anthology. Sigh.
Replying to @plragde
A medievalist colleague of mine insists it's abt Clement of Alex, who believed Bibl reading must be done in retreat from the world.
Ahhh. Nothing scheduled before office hours at 4 tomorrow. Means I might actually make my Wednesday deadlines. And get to sleep past 5.30.
Replying to @jwolman
Buzz looks interesting \(and awfully familiar \*cough\*twitter\*cough\*\), but I'm waiting for them to merge Gmail and Greader already.
@jwolman Okay, well, there it is: Buzz can pull Greader and Twitter into its stream...
Replying to @jcmeloni
Where's mine? \(Oh, wait\. I bet that's not what you meant\.\) #buzz
Replying to @barbarahui
It hailed here on Saturday - absolutely bizarre. It's not raining here yet today, but the clouds over the mtns look ominous.
Is it bad to be at the point where I hope the snow is bad enough back east that my trip is cancelled rather than just a massive headache?
Replying to @brettbobley
Ugh. And then dump, what, 10-15 inches more on top of it tonight? This does not sound good.
Hey you back east: enough with the LOST live tweeting. Some of us don't have the option of watching when you do. :)
Replying to @eetempleton
Hey, great minds think alike!
Replying to @billiehara
Ooh, sorry - I really wasn't aiming at you! You weren't revealing anything, but others were. :/
Replying to @eetempleton
Completely fascinating. Part of it's the WTF factor, I think.
I am four grant apps away from meeting two impossible same-day deadlines - the last of the insane deadlines I set myself up for in Jan-Feb.
Replying to @brettbobley
This does not instill great confidence in me in this week's trip actually taking place.
Trip to DC cancelled. Which means I get a snow day on Friday. In SoCal. Which sounds exactly perfect to me.
Replying to @jmittell
In a bit, sure - need to get some coffee in first!
Replying to @BidenPC
Alas, I'll probably work. Just on my own stuff instead of everything else...
Replying to @halavais
Mine popped up this morning. It'll arrive shortly, I'm sure.
Replying to @betajames
They're adding post-to-Twitter soon, they said.
Replying to @JenServenti
Actually, I have snow! It's just safely tucked up on the mountains five minutes north of here. http://yfrog.com/334giyj
Replying to @chutry
I'm here - http://www.google.com/profiles/kfitz47 - and now following you.
Tinkering with Buzz today. So far, I like it; far better signal to noise control than FB. But then, there aren't many of us there yet.
I'm kfitz47 on Google if you care to follow along.
Replying to @briancroxall
I'm sure it'll be there soon; mine popped up this morning. I'll be on the lookout!
Replying to @JenServenti
Yes, indeed. I find that prettiness and closeness are more or less inversely proportional, when it comes to snow.
Replying to @billiehara
Yup! Send me addresses by DM & I'll happily add them.
Up side: no travel tmw. Down side: a day of working on planes, unbothered by anything but travel, immediately turned into a day of meetings.
Replying to @acavender
Weird!
Testing to see if Buzz will start picking up my Twitter feed now...
Replying to @twel
It finally kicked in sometime in the last couple of hours; all of today's tweets appeared at once.
Replying to @ryancordell
Woo-hoo! Congratulations!
Folks who are shutting off Buzz: were you users of the sharing feature on Google Reader? Because I was, and I'm really liking Buzz so far.
Replying to @historying
Yeah, I got a bunch of random share requests, too, many from students. Very uncomfortable.
Replying to @mlaconvention
We've got article & book awards but maybe we should work on one to promote new modes of scholarship? cf http://icio.us/ow2gig
Replying to @amandafrench and @amndw2
I think they've amped it up a bit with the Buzz release...
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @tanyaclement
I wonder why. A friend of a friend sent me this from Silver Spring today. http://yfrog.com/2e7kip
After a morning writing LORs in my pajamas, it's time to pull myself together and go to school. Must print, mail, and move on to next task.
Replying to @tanyaclement
Wait, Margaret, come back!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
World of Goo!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
It's brilliant, trust me.
Replying to @digitaldigs
Did the same thing to me at first, but I managed to persuade iCal and gCal that "office hours" = available, despite scheduled.
I have an internet doppelganger. Turns out she's me. Sort of. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/my-secret-life/
R sent flowers! But because his billing address is here in CA, the florist assumed he'd gotten it backwards & delivered them to him in BR.
Some yelling straightened it out, and I now have lovely roses. But in the meantime a little sample of the indignities of the commuting life.
This has been the laziest weekend I've had in ages: have goofed off nearly continuously since Friday evening. Or at least it feels that way.
Deleting big piles of old listserv email. Let the web archive have it.
The best pressure cooker risotto I've made yet: broccoli, mushrooms, smoked mozzarella. Mmm.
Maybe it's just that I'm a new to this, after nearly 30 yrs of fulltime contacts, but my glasses are nearly always filthy. How do you deal?
Replying to @xina and @mariabustillos
100% true. I made it through, but only through dumb luck. I look on what should have been in horror.
Replying to @veek
Alas, the cloths I have seem to make things worse; need to keep them clean in turn. *sigh*
Replying to @briancroxall
Okay, now you're just making fun of me. \(Kidding: I use a barely damp soft cloth followed by the Apple microfiber to polish\.\)
Replying to @2xlp
I've gotten a bit lazy about the "every morning" part, which is I think what I need.
Replying to @2xlp
Hey, and PS: thanks for the novelist comment over the weekend. Can think of little higher potential praise.
Replying to @tolerm
Things! It's a bit pricy \($ for both desktop & iPhone versions\), but it's been worth it for me. See @ProfHacker http://bit.ly/6bN7US
Replying to @midwinter_
Ooh, I so want to know more. I may get the @ProfHacker folks to start pestering you...
Looking forward to my talk at U-M on the future of scholarly publishing, Thurs 10am, @ UM Library! http://bit.ly/6Ah55m /via @shanakimball
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Next time, I hope!
Replying to @amandafrench
Nice! Never would have occurred to me.
Replying to @captain_primate
Rats! I'm sorry you won't be able to make it. Another time, though, I'll hope...
Just got a notice that my @citibank credit card is adding a $60 annual fee. Have had this card for 20+ years. Goodbye, @citibank.
Replying to @tolerm
Probably so. It's also clearly an end run around increasing interest rates; they'll waive the fee if you spend $2400/yr with them.
@citibank: "The reason we are making this change is to maintain the quality of our service amid the rising cost of doing business."
Ha. Ha ha. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Ha. Hm.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Ah, just amusing myself at the expense of big banking. Well, not "expense," really. If only I could.
Replying to @lnakamur
Hey, you're going to be there! I'm only there Saturday b/c of my Michigan talk, but will hope to get to say hi!
Called to cancel @citibank card. Agent asked if I'd received the notice of the new $60 annual fee. Yup. Account terminated, after 24 years.
Replying to @lnakamur
Oh, yes - so do I! Let's definitely grab one Saturday afternoon/evening...
Replying to @alicejrobison
Back atcha!
Replying to @cscannella
Dunno - looks that way. They waive the fee if you spend more than $2400/yr with them, but it's a secondary card for me, so no.
Replying to @ambrose_mensch
I think they may just be counting how many people are cancelling because of the fee; he didn't try to sell me on staying.
DirectTV + winter Olympics = mighty pleasant flight!
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Gallagher & Greenblatt on the potato in the materialist imagination.
Can toothpaste go bad?
Though morning comes much earlier here in Michigan, it comes much more darkly. That's not a great combination, if you're wondering.
Awesome turnout for my UM talk, about to begin!
Replying to @BenRobertson
Reminds me of an old New Yorker cartoon, "when milk goes bad," with the carton holding up an apple at gunpoint.
Replying to @moncia
I totally used that on a slide in my talk at U-M today \("the hopey\-changey part"\).
Sorry to have missed yesterday and today at #dml2010, but my visit to UMich totally rocked, if I do say so myself. See you tomorrow!
Replying to @ironmanx28
Hi to you and Liz! Looking forward to a non-virtual hello.
Finally made it to #dml2010, after roughly a day of travel. How is everyone?
Replying to @lnakamur
Yes! 12.45?
Replying to @mollyali
My pleasure - and thank you!
Replying to @aswinp
I'll look forward to seeing, too. Thanks for coming out, especially on such a busy day.
Fantastic lunch with @lnakamur, now awaiting session on race, ethnicity, class and digital media practices.
Replying to @halavais
Instead of doing the relaunch thing, let the bar run; it took a couple of minutes for mine to flip on.
Replying to @halavais
Not at all? How annoying! I wonder if UCSD is suggesting that it's time for the conference to wrap up?
Testing out the Chromed Bird extension. I like it so far!
Replying to @veek
It's a Twitter extension - displays your stream in a popup, signals you when you've got new tweets...
Replying to @veek
I'm pretty fond of what my students in Intro to Digital Media Studies are doing this semester: http://machines.pomona.edu/51-2010/
Replying to @johnmjones
Not unlike the rain in Spain, I suppose.
I'm so scattered right now that I can't even gather the pieces enough to make a list of everything I need to do, much less actually do it.
Replying to @phdaisy
Thanks - you too!
People are absolutely killing me today. #stresslevelsthroughtheroof
Replying to @veek
Hey, fantastic - that's wonderful news! Thanks for showing it!
Replying to @billiehara
Somebody decided our mascot sounded girly, so we're Imaginary-Male-Mascot-Animal-Variants and Mascots.
Replying to @dancohen
Gah! Because finding and reading sources is the hard part of humanities research?!?
"keep in mind that every newly minted Ph.D. has already done most of the research for his or her book when the tenure clock starts..." [1/2]
"It’s just a matter of revising the dissertation into a book." Oh, is that all. #sigh [2/2]
http://nyti.ms/c1lYNW, in case you were wondering. /via @dancohen
Replying to @plragde and @xina
Most R1s in the US have a 1-book-and-significant-work-toward-2 requirement for tenure in the humanities; promotion=2nd book.
Replying to @dancohen
Reminds me of a grad st. I heard some years back saying she'd done all the research for her diss; now she just had to write it up.
@dancohen Something in that "just" made me feel very very stabby. Especially considering we were sitting in the expository writing program.
Replying to @veek
She was in English Ed, actually. Which disheartened me even further.
Replying to @mmwwah
You said it, sister.
Replying to @TheRepoRat
Yeah, she did. \(Which is to say, no punch line, except that it made me wonder about what was going on in that English Ed prog\.\)
Replying to @nowviskie
I think you're exactly right, no small part of why I found it so depressing...
Replying to @j_l_r
I think @lizlosh presented it on Friday at #dml2010 - before I got there, alas...
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Fabulous news! Also accepted, my paper on open peer review. Ironically \(or not\), with one review that made me wince.
Replying to @nancybaym
Oh, no! Ow! I hope you can get some ice on that.
Replying to @cliotropic
But they provide means for human correction/improvement of those algorithms in other cases: GVoice transcription, translation...
Replying to @cliotropic
Why not allow knowledgeable users - hell, librarians - to help them correct the errors in ways that can improve the algorithm?
Replying to @cliotropic
Well, that would be an improvement!
Replying to @kwazana
Never ever? That's a surprise. I don't use Word, so no, but I did integrate it into NeoOffice, where I think it can be removed...
Replying to @sramsay
You don't actually "know" me yet, but soon, I hope! \(Which is to say that I'll be there\.\)
Replying to @sramsay
Rats. I'm 1 for 1, but nobody will pay me for anything, at least at the moment. I'm preparing some serious begging.
Replying to @samplereality
Good lord. Misplaced floor mats did that? Are they magnetic floor mats?
Replying to @samplereality and @brettbobley
I would suggest that if they've lost you six years of data they owe you six years of refund. Unbelievable.
Replying to @samplereality
I mean, "100% Lifetime Satisfaction Promise" seems, well, not to have been met.
Replying to @nirak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdghID66kLs
Replying to @kwazana
Hell, no. I've been MS-free for almost two years now. All NeoOffice for me.
Replying to @jcmeloni
My challenge is always getting them past "is this rape?" to see it as the moment a community grew up & took resp for governance.
Replying to @mariabustillos
Yay, you! Also, add me to the "I hate Jonathan Franzen" count.
Replying to @billiehara
I'm betting some mystery accidental key command that sets the current page as your home page...
A full day of grading, but I'm completely caught up with it. And am down to ten incomplete items on today's list. Starting to breathe again.
Not incidentally, if you know someone interested in renting the best condo in Claremont CA for a year starting June or July, let me know.
Replying to @2xlp
NYU! I'll be there on sabbatical all year.
Replying to @2xlp
It's going to be great to be back there!
Just committed major, mortifying technological error. With potential for embarrassment for someone other than me. Oh, but I feel terrible.
Replying to @mattthomas
Oh, no - I clicked reply, to a msg that had been sent to a Google group, thinking it had been sent to me. Reply -> reply-all. :(
Replying to @mattthomas
It's not a good world, that. Needless to say, I've changed the settings on the grp. \(Had I only known there was such a setting\!\)
Replying to @mlmcgill
Absolutely! I should be in the area by mid-August, and possibly sooner, and will be there all year. I'll be looking forward to it!
Replying to @joeymornin
Be careful in Winslow! It's one of those places where if you get off the freeway, you may not be able to find your way back.
Replying to @joeymornin
Hence the relief when the girl in the flatbed Ford shows up, I think.
Getting the sinking feeling that the intermittent cramping pain on the left side of my middle back is something more than I'd like it to be.
On the positive side, just made an amazing curried potato, garbanzo bean, and spinach soup.
Replying to @TheRepoRat
http://bit.ly/cGbCgR I doubled it, and added a good bit more broth \(it's otherwise more a stew than a soup\). Y-U-M.
Replying to @alechosterman
I'm hoping that's all - but fearing a kidney issue...
Replying to @2xlp
You certainly may!
Replying to @alechosterman
Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear that - I hope it passed quickly!
Replying to @alechosterman
I pulled a muscle between a couple of ribs last fall when I had bronchitis - No Fun. I hope she's doing better!