Man Saves Own Life
— Aaron Anstett In the morning, before breakfast, I save my own life, then walk around the house all day a hero. Friends come by and ask how it feels. I say it just happened. I couldn’t help it. They’d … Continue reading
— Aaron Anstett In the morning, before breakfast, I save my own life, then walk around the house all day a hero. Friends come by and ask how it feels. I say it just happened. I couldn’t help it. They’d … Continue reading
BOLLES: Toast of the Town
Preliminary facts: I don’t watch America’s Next Top Model, mostly because I haven’t really watched TV since I started grad school, but I kept up with the strike last year because an old friend of mine was a writer for … Continue reading
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland in now available for the bargain price of $180 per volume on Amazon. (Ahem.) It sounds fascinating, though, especially for those of us who practice a certain slant of book history. … Continue reading
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This stuffed sting ray was a gift from Mister Husband when I passed my orals. It’s been living on my desk ever since, partly because I wasn’t sure where else to put it, and partly because obviously it should be … Continue reading
Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. … Brooker said Microsoft and the writer, Rick Jelliffe, had not determined a price and … Continue reading
This footage of a dying frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) was uploaded today all over the Internets. It’s a deep sea critter, so sightings are rare. It’s also called an eel shark, and thusly reminds me of a shrieking eel from … Continue reading
I love living in a place that has an Art Shanty Project. The world needs more artistic ice fishing houses. I loathe living in a legal system and cultural economy where Kahle v Ashcroft is finally dead. I’d write more … Continue reading
I usually teach delivery as we go along in Scientific and Technical Presentations, and tend to rely on speeches as examples because duh, look at the course title. But last semester I taught a consolidated lesson on it after the … Continue reading