2013 11 01 tweets
Abby Smith Rumsey refers to my talk yesterday in opening today’s first #2013wha session, and makes me sound way smarter than I am.
Replying to @moncia, @jvinopal and @coblezc
Woo hop! Congrats all around. \(Now, about that to\-do list…\)
Replying to @katinalynn
Will do! She was asking after you last night.
Christ. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-shooting-lax-20131101,0,3342378.story#axzz2jPjfg3zz
Replying to @dancohen
Comes with its own API!
Replying to @janaremy
As you do!
Replying to @rogerwhitson
We opted for the session @nowviskie describes instead this year. The pre-conv workshop will be back in the future, though!
Replying to @rogerwhitson and @debbiejeanlee
The session @nowviskie mentioned is intended to take that space this year.
Replying to @jwolman
Oh, hey - I almost missed it. Good thing I’m on the west coast. Happy birthday!
Oh, yikes; migraine aura. My apologies, #2013wha, but I’m about to have to split. It’s been fun!
All but blind in my left eye. weirdly dissociated from my left hand. opening that Maxalt may be one of the hardest things I’ve done lately.
Come on Maxalt, do your thing.
Okay. Maxalt beginning to do its thing. Railroad spike through head starting to soften a bit. Want mashed potatoes.
Replying to @2xlp
Yup. Muted now, thank goodness.
Replying to @2xlp
I'm in San Diego, so probably not the weather. But sinuses still very unhappy.
Replying to @2xlp
Hope you're feeling better!
Okay. Post-migraine hangover, but at least it’s *post*-migraine, which should make flying home today bearable.
Replying to @seth_denbo
Wishing you smooth travels and a great start to the new gig!
Replying to @candrews
“This is really more of a comment than a question…”
Plane landed half an hour early. Happily, that just gave me more time to wait on the NJ Transit platform.
Slept like a rock last night. Puttered all day today. Got almost all the pictures hung, plus gumbo on the stove. All’s right with the world.
Replying to @tcarmody
Aw, man. My flight yesterday was still all device policey.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I did not, and shame on me! Happy birthday, @tcarmody; please continue to enjoy your electronic devices!
Encouraging Digital Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities, a white paper from the UP of N Georgia’s NEH Digital SUG: http://ung.edu/college-of-arts-and-letters/encouraging-digital-publishing/
Thanks for having me! // RT @mkgold: Great day with @kfitz at @cunydhi / @CUNYGradCenter #dhpraxis seminar.
Replying to @jwolman
“One of.”
RT @MLACommons: Who will be the three-thousandth member of @MLACommons? Join today and it could be you! Here’s how: http://howtouse.commons.mla.org/2013/05/31/creating-an-account-on-mla-commons/
Replying to @miriamkp
Car service, most definitely! When are you coming here?
Replying to @miriamkp
I hope it’s a great trip!
RT @mediacommons: We’re happy to be collaborating with @postmedieval on their new open review project, launching today! http://t.co/smvjYwN…
Moving to Brooklyn is causing me to have to relearn some basic things about NYC geography that I thought I knew, but apparently did not.
Case in point, I have apparently entered some alterna-universe in which it’s far easier & faster to get to JFK than to LaGuardia.
Replying to @jcmeloni
Amazing, huh? My commute from Park Slope is 10 minutes faster than it was from Murray Hill. **boggles**
Replying to @surlyF
Hey, I made exactly that joke to @moncia a couple of weeks ago.
Replying to @surlyF and @moncia
I will happily deploy a CC-BY license. Will joke for credit!
Replying to @dandyroll
If that’s so, the BQE has been at its worst every freaking time I’ve been on it. Eastern Parkway, however, was a breeze.
Replying to @kfitz
.@wynkenhimself @miriamkp Horrible indeed! @CokeCCBCC needs to make this right.
Friends \(esp friends\-in\-common of @miriamkp\), consider tweeting to let @CokeCCBCC know that this is NOT okay: https://twitter.com/miriamkp/status/398154471311548416
Replying to @miriamkp
Well, thank heavens for small mercies. But sheesh, you shouldn’t have had to escalate.
A followup: @CokeCCBCC seems to be on it now. Keeping a good thought for @miriamkp!
Just finished the world’s biggest lunch. Thanks, CLT, for having pretty decent Carolina barbecue. I am happy.
Replying to @commish24
*waves back*
Replying to @jwolman
Perhaps reading a 1000-page epic \(vol 5 of unknown\) might have helped.
RT @mediacommons: Join the postmedieval crowd review for the special issue on Comic Medievalisms! http://mcpress.media-commons.org/postmedieval_comicmedievalisms/
Hello, Charleston!
Replying to @2xlp
SC!
Replying to @2xlp
Ooh good for you! The weather is indeed lovely.
Replying to @djp2025
Had an awesome dinner at Fleet Landing tonight. Tomorrow: Husk!
Replying to @radiokath
Wow. That’s a night.
@radiokath The only thing I can compare it to is that in high school I briefly dated the guy who went on to create the series “Hung.”
@radiokath It took me a bit to recover, the first time I saw the credits.
Replying to @radiokath
I know, right?!?
Replying to @mrgunn, @rrkennison and @MLACommons
is openly readable; membership is required to publish or comment. One joins in order to participate.
Replying to @rrkennison and @jenica26
One problem there is that the economics of printing fewer copies don’t quite balance out.
Replying to @rrkennison and @jenica26
That said, it is one of the models we have under study.
Replying to @Markings and @sandy
I’m not sure I’d say they’re not *necessary.* I would say I wouldn’t number it among their primary forms of value they add.
Replying to @Markings and @sandy
Agreed! I’m not suggesting that we get rid of the current system entirely and for all communities and forms. Different +
Replying to @Markings and @sandy
kinds of review serve different purposes. What I was arguing was that “we provide peer review” is not the most effective +
Replying to @Markings and @sandy
means for UPs to declare the value they add in the publishing process. There are many more important things that can only +
Replying to @Markings and @sandy
be provided by a press.
I just remembered: I dreamed the other night that I had a new toiletry kit. I was very excited about it. I am super curious what it means.
Replying to @plragde
Maybe I need a new one.
Replying to @scottrettberg
Ooh, excellent.
Replying to @amandafrench
Ha!
Replying to @amandafrench and @shanakimball
I wonder why I would be having one of those.
Replying to @bukuwawa
It’s apparently what I need to achieve true happiness.
Replying to @amandafrench and @shanakimball
It is *entirely* possible.
Replying to @rgfeal and @amandafrench
Here I assumed it was about a more capacious way of managing work travel.
Replying to @dancohen
“Ew, girl stuff.” --Freud
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Replying to @wilbanks
o.O
Replying to @wilbanks
I am so, so curious what the author imagines the etymology of that phrase to be.
Replying to @wilbanks
Ah, the Mondegreen. Leads to very interesting close readings.
Replying to @wilbanks
In this case, a pre-Madonna is someone who believes they were too good for the ‘80s?
Replying to @wilbanks
“He really thinks there’s been no good music since Zeppelin. What a pre-Madonna.”
Let’s see: enter 50+ person security line, or wait 10 minutes for TSA Precheck line to open. Hmm.
Replying to @wilbanks
No, actually, that was pretty good. Alarmingly so, in fact.
It’s been fun, Charleston. I’ll hope to come back soon with less work to do!
Dear gate agents everywhere: my tiny tote bag and normal sized purse are together smaller than the things you allow as “personal items.” +
Making me stop and stuff one inside the other in order to reduce my item count to 2 is a pointless exercise of power. +
And blaming the TSA is nonsense. They just saw in great detail exactly what I’m carrying, and let me through without comment. </rant>
Replying to @mikejolk
Too true.
Hello, Atlanta!
Replying to @allistelling
Thanks!
Replying to @ibogost
SAMLA. I’m closing the conference tomorrow.
Replying to @ibogost
Eh, I’ve seen worse.
Replying to @bighandsome
It shows quite good judgment and is evidence of strong character.
Replying to @joguldi
Have you met @paleofuture? http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/
Replying to @tcarmody
It is crazy difficult to separate actual facts about the assassination from the narratives of Oliver Stone & Don DeLillo.
Meeting with the directors of a bunch of other humanities societies, discussing the future of @MLACommons: a broader Humanities Commons!
Replying to @leoba
It is exactly a scholarly association!
Replying to @leoba
Thanks, Dot!
Replying to @briancroxall
Hey, you’re here-ish!
Replying to @briancroxall
Like ships passing in the night. And announcing their presence on Twitter. Or something.
Replying to @kylebeachy
Excellent! Have fun.
Replying to @briancroxall
Google “recalibrate home button.” My tablet button keeled over the other day & I was able to revive it.
Replying to @yayitsrob
Wow, I… Wow.
RT @cryptopix: @yayitsrob @kfitz she's probably a "disruptor" of scholarly communication, too!
Replying to @foundhistory
Congratulations! That’s fantastic.
Replying to @yayitsrob
Hey, that email wasn’t by any chance about an upcoming WEBINAR, was it?
Replying to @yayitsrob
Huh.
RT @MLAnews: One more week to add your voice to the draft proposal for a new MLA groups structure. Comment by 20 Nov. http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/
Replying to @yayitsrob
I shouldn’t tease either. It’s a very kind thing to say! Just a bit funny in context.
RT @MLAnews: New in PROFESSION: Essays from the Committee on Literatures of People of Color in the US & Canada. http://profession.commons.mla.org/ OA o…
Replying to @jcmeloni
Yay!
Just found out that a treasured former colleague died last night. Far, far too young. Have an acute need to go find everyone and hug them.
After the night I’ve had \(bad news piled upon bad news\) I hope you people will forgive the following:
Fuck cancer.
#thatisall
Replying to @dancohen
I will take you up on that. Thanks, Dan.
Replying to @rgfeal
No, no. All people news.
My Amtrak wifi karma apparently got used up on my last trip. This promises to be annoying.
Hello, DC. No chance the red line has started behaving, huh?
Replying to @jwolman
Heh. Taxi it is.
Academic author? Thinking about how to move into more public venues? You might take a look at The Thinking Writer. http://thethinkingwriter.wordpress.com/
Replying to @amandafrench, @jmcclurken and @digitalcampus
The Authors Guild seems determined to keep that plot line going.
HT @jcmeloni: Why You Should Spend Your Mornings In A Cave By @drake_baer http://www.fastcompany.com/3017987/bottom-line/why-you-should-spend-your-morning-in-a-cave via @FastCompany
Like @jcmeloni, I start my days early to get a bit of cave time. But I need to do a better job of protecting my first hour+ in the office.
Replying to @JenHoward
Hooray!
RT @MLAnews: Opportunity: Serve on a division/discussion group executive committee. Suggest yourself or a colleague by 23 Dec. http://t.co/…
About to begin leading some serious industrial thought.
Replying to @seth_denbo
You might try another browser. We had some troubles with our test run.
Replying to @mdalmau
I haven’t heard. I’ll see if I can find out!
Replying to @mdalmau
Thank you!
Replying to @brianbhalley, @mitpress and @aaupresses
Sure! http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digitalhumanities-0 and http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10-0
Wow. // RT @mkgold: Pinetree Found. Disting’d Fellowship on The Future of the Book in the Digital Age @CUNYGradCenter http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Degrees-Research/The-Advanced-Research-Collaborative/ARC-Applications
Replying to @crsbecker
I get something in my eye every time I see one of these tweets.
Replying to @crsbecker
Amazing.
Replying to @katinalynn
Congratulations! That’s huge.
Replying to @miriamkp
Argh, still? Do I need to bust out the censorious tweets again?
Replying to @samplereality
NOOOOOOOOOO.
Replying to @samplereality and @wynkenhimself
Wait, the Well? Or the Mason Inn as a whole?
Replying to @samplereality and @wynkenhimself
Aw, man. That’s a serious drag.
Replying to @samplereality and @wynkenhimself
No kidding. And back to the age of those scary motels out on the highway.
Replying to @sherah1918 and @wynkenhimself
Good grief! That’s terrifying. I’m glad everyone is okay. \(Sorry about the good bushes, though\.\)
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
Particularly interesting since Brussels is in a completely made-up country.
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
It is a rupture in the time-space continuum. Paradox is sure to follow.
Replying to @boone
“Why wasn’t I consulted???”
The left half of my face is numb from hairline to jawline. Feeling is gradually creeping back in. I love the dentist.
And when I say “the feeling is gradually creeping back in,” I mean by random tingling and itching. Woo.
This has been a very long day of adding insult to injury. Just after full feeling returns to my face, dermo needs to cut something off it.
It’s #MLA committee nomination time! Members, suggest yourself or others and help shape the organization’s future. https://www.mla.org/commsugg
Even though they waited until after I left Murray Hill, all I can say is halle-freaking-lujah. http://firstwefeast.com/laugh/santacon-is-finally-being-banished-from-new-york-city-which-is-good-because-it-is-for-mouthbreathing-goons/ \(NB: Salty language\!\)
Replying to @katinalynn
Glad to hear the talk went well! So sorry about the rest…
The good news is that MSY has free wifi and plentiful power outlets.
Hey, @chronicle? You may want to check your subhead on the mobile version of the staff scholars article.
Another day, another dentist appointment. Today, the right half of my face is benumbed.
I thought I knew what the phrase “hit a nerve” meant. And then my dentist actually hit a nerve with the novocain this morning.
Replying to @amandafrench and @shanakimball
It was like she sent an electric current right through my tongue. Crazy. \(In a “let’s don’t do that again” way\.\)
Hey, @chronicle? It’s the subhead here I’m talking about: http://m.chronicle.com/article/A-Move-to-Bring-Staff-Scholars/143241/
Replying to @briancroxall, @coblezc and @StewartVarner
Wow! Thanks for letting me know — though that group’s conversations were well along before my visit.
Replying to @katinalynn, @rgfeal and @sheratonhotels
WHAT???? That’s unbelievable.
Replying to @katinalynn, @wynkenhimself, @rgfeal and @sheratonhotels
No kidding. I do too — and can see myself double-checking after this!
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @sleonchnm
Mine \(it was actually my 21st; long story\) was just before FB went wide, so there was still stuff to catch up on.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @sleonchnm
I still plan to go to my 30th, if I can make it. I had fun seeing a few good friends at the last one.
Replying to @wynkenhimself and @sleonchnm
\(The next one is sooner than I care to admit, however\.\)
Replying to @radiokath
I’ll be sure on your behalf.
Replying to @quinnanya
Aw. What a little cornucopia! Congratulations!
A huge pot of chicken & sausage gumbo. A mess of collard greens. Not the usual tradition, but ours. Happy holidays!
Replying to @ayjay
Ooh, yum!
Replying to @ayjay
I do know that about the cornbread! You made me want some pretty intensely; happy to return the favor, gumbo-wise.
Replying to @plragde
I could definitely go for that.
Grateful for so much in my life today. Most of all for a holiday season in the fabulous home I get to share with R., at long last.
Replying to @ernestopriego
Ernesto, I’m so sorry for your loss.