January 2008
“The “Wars of Religion” were not the events which necessitated the...”
– William T. Cavanaugh, “‘A fire strong enough to consume the house’: The wars of religion and the rise of the state.” Modern Theology 11 (1995): 397-420 (link)
December 2007
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“[P]eople know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but...”
– Michel Foucault, quoted in Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982), p. 187.
“[W]e need to continue to detach sixteenth-century Protestantism from...”
– Alec Ryrie, “Introduction: The European Reformations,” in Alec Ryrie, ed., Palgrave Advances in the European Reformations (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 1-10, p. 7.
“[T]he incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its...”
– Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), pp. 48, 55 (link)
Bacon egg & cheese on a round roll
This is my little reward to myself for having to work on a conference paper today. .03 at Lou’s Too, Trappe, PA. Mega-delicious. Mobile post sent by nathan using Utterz. Replies.
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“Now let every one examine himself in the light of the Gospel and see how far he...”
– Martin Luther, “The Birth of Jesus, a Sermon on Luke 2:1-14” (1521/22) (link)
X-mas Eve greetings from acute care
Watching the young couple waiting at the local Minute Clinic. The guy is sick and his girlfriend is being very tender and solicitous. It’s touching somehow, the way people take case of each other. The guy looks kind of gruff, and the woman looks like she takes a sort of gentle pleasure in being able to case for him when he’s sick. (I’m here because a friend needed a ride, not...
Poop
With one kid in diapers and one in the process of being potty-trained, I feel like poop is my whole life right now. Mobile post sent by nathan using Utterz. Replies.
Talia on the stairs
Today is literally the first time she’s ever encountered stairs. We’re visiting the grandparents.
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“Students taught me, too, that it is necessary to practice compassion in these...”
– bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (NY: Routledge, 1994), p. 42 (link).
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Some thoughts on why I hate grading
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Tell me you don't find this creepy.
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The Phoenixville Firebird Festival
Just returned from watching the annual conflagration — the whole town of Phoenixville, PA turns out once a year to watch an enormous wooden bird as it is ceremonially burned. It’s quite a spectacle. I love it. Mobile post sent by nathan using Utterz. Replies. mp3
The Phoenixville Firebird Festival
Just returned from watching the annual conflagration — the whole town of Phoenixville, PA turns out once a year to watch an enormous wooden bird as it is ceremonially burned. It’s quite a spectacle. I love it. Mobile post sent by nathan using Utterz. Replies. mp3
He was clear enough in April, but by the end of May he began to ramble. It became apparent to his students that they would never learn much about The Roots of Romanticism but that they would see and hear odd things. One after another, the academic formalities dropped away. Professor Herzog had the unconscious frankness of a man deeply preoccupied. And toward the end of the term there were long...
Complete English translation of the Babylonian... →
Thanks to http://snipr.com/1v0xm. (Source: wilkerson.freehostingnow.com)
Sexy chatbots deployed to steal your personal... →
Some evil geniuses have developed an automated chat program that convinces people it’s a real cybersex partner and convinces them to reveal personal information, which can then be used for ID theft, or it lures them to a fake malware-laden website. Called “CyberLover.” Only in Russia thus far, but look out. (Source: www.news.com)
Food history timeline: culinary history of the... →
Very cool. Plots the emergence of various kinds of food over historical time. Includes some recipes and reference articles. (Source: www.foodtimeline.org)
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//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/476473962” style=”border:0;”> damn. confessed my intention to heather & she responded with such a withering look that i abandoned my scheme
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/476449992” style=”border:0;”> home, but sort of trying to sneak off into a corner to escape notice and maybe even take a little nap. please don’t tell… esp. not my wife
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/476447132” style=”border:0;”> home, but sort of trying to sneak off into a corner to escape notice and maybe even take a little nap. please don’t tell
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/474967862” style=”border:0;”>What’s a common household item appropriate for preschool show-and-tell beginning with the letter “I” (not ice cream)?//mosio
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/472400142” style=”border:0;”> What is the source (in the letters of Paul, King James Version?) of: “else why stand we in jeopardy every hour?”//mosio
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/472101032” style=”border:0;”> reflecting on the amount of fossil fuel being burned outside my window to move fallen leaves off the soil they ought to be fertilizing
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/472071812” style=”border:0;”> turning in my tenure packet. gulp
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/470642222” style=”border:0;”> on Facebook: Nathan is home again, home again, jigitty jig.
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/468472022” style=”border:0;”>sitting in my car in the college parking lot, steeling myself for the day, watching the first flakes of a snow flurry melt on the windscreen
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/467291912” style=”border:0;”>on Facebook: Nathan is in the mood for a touch of post-structuralism before bed.
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/466791102” style=”border:0;”>suddenly paralyzed by depression. temporarily unable to do anything but sit & nurse a sour stomach & a dark dark mood.
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/466233822” style=”border:0;”>on Facebook: Nathan is feeling a little queasy after wolfing down a greasy dining-hall lunch in record time.
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/466075002” style=”border:0;”>What’s the Latin phrase from Descartes’s “Discourse on the Method” that’s conventionally translated “clear and distinct ideas”?//mosio
Hot chocolate: resources and links →
Links to the best hot chocolate recipes and information on the net, supposedly. This is the kind of thing Mahalo ought to be good for. (Source: www.mahalo.com)
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/464130162” style=”border:0;”>it kind of weirds me out how fascinating i find the questionarium//mosio
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/463832332” style=”border:0;”>just had the odd experience of hearing my wife singing a willie nelson song in another room & thinking it was a great new CD i’d never heard
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/464274642” style=”border:0;”> wtf, the charger for my phone is, like, gone
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/461424702” style=”border:0;”>Just bookmarked: DJ Rekha, Basement Banghra micromix: Like music? Like really good music? You.. http://tinyurl.com/2qx69a
//twitter.com/nbr/statuses/461048612” style=”border:0;”> Can any networking geniuses out there give me any additional hints on this
problem with my computer? http://snipr.com/1uh7w Thanks//mosio