Let’s see, the strudel would go well with a nice early Thomas Mann
After walking around South Kensington and Hyde Park this afternoon, I decided to start looking for dinner. Not far from the South Kensington Underground stop, I found a
Jargonwatch: PhDiva
I confess to mixed feelings about linking to the article, and running the risk of spreading the meme. However, there's a serious argument in here that's worth noting.
Revelation of the day
"Librarians are more socially outgoing than academics?" (Household Opera, "The 'single woman in a rural college town' blues")
My trip to Malmo
Here are pictures from my trip to Malmo, Sweden. We start in the Copenhagen Central Station (wasn't I just here?) (Update, 10 May 2005: The DSB's online trip planner has train schedules, fares, etc.. It's really excellent.).
Look at that woodwork!
Very impressive stuff
In the interests of keeping the front page of the blog from getting overloaded, I'm moving the rest of the pictures to after the jump.
Globalization hits home
Last night I turned on the TV, and just surfed through the channels. My impressions of Danish TV: One of the networks plays "Spiderman" as often as Bravo
Wandering around Aarhus
So this is my evening in Aarhus. It's a beautiful city. If I was single, I'd move here.
The train
I got off the train, found a map of the city, and saw that I could get to the hotel by walking up a pedestrian street. It didn't look like a bad walk, and I figured I could use the exercise.
Let's see, can I find the pedestrian street? Where could it be? Hmmm.....
Welcome to Copenhagen, you have the run of the place
I had the strangest experience in Customs: I had no experience. I took my bags, headed to the exit, saw where I thought Customs was... and then I
Review of Tom Misa, Leonardo to the Internet
My review of Tom Misa's Leonardo to the Internet came out in the latest American Scholar. Since the Scholar doesn't have a Web site, I'm taking the liberty of publishing the review here. (The editors at AS, all of whom are leaving or are being forced out-- a fact that I still have a hard time getting my mind around-- made some improvements to it; this is really the draft.)
[To the tune of The Beatles, "Let It Be," from the album 1.]
Hip-hop in Singapore?
I might be going to Singapore this summer, to do a little research. I've never been there, but Singaporean restaurants are all uniformly amazing, so I'm looking forward
Getting to The Future
I was thinking about how I came to get this new columnist gig, and how the mechanics of it differ from getting an academic position. This is worth