I remember them. I was active from pretty much the earliest days of academic blogging (Invisible Adjunct comment threads) and got reprimanded by Luker on several occasions for impertinent remarks.
I'm sure there are people who hear the story about Thales and the olive presses and think: you must be very smart indeed to make a lot of money.
Various philosophies
Various philosophies
I'm looking forward to reading your book, as I'm very interested in the topic. Do you happen to write anything about the idea of a 'causal loop' in ecology, as a difficulty of narrating it? Perhaps a niche interest of mine...
reminds me a bit of coming home late, turning on the tv, and immediately concluding that my roommates were filming an ersatz Headbangers' Ball in a bedroom and displaying it, through a cable I hunted for but could not find, on said tv.
I wouldn't mind a browser plug-in to convert paleontological species names in wiki pages to literal English equivalents: it would be easier to understand "beasthead" or "ugly dog teeth in cheek" or "lizard ass"---at least at first.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
I see that I dutifully transcribed the name of the theologian Bultman as "Buttman" in several archival notes, shrugging it off as a Wilhelm Fucks-type situation, one imagines.
Simon Newcomb, often mocked for denying the possibility of flying machines in 1903, wrote to Peirce in 1892 to note that it was pure nonsense to claim that one infinity was greater or less than another (www.jstor.org/stable/985195, p. 425)
Empson is one of the greats. Start with his completely sane and sober book on Milton, particularly if you're sympathetic to predestination, etc.
In an interview with one Steven Bannon, a certain figure in the news refers to Gell-Mann coining 'quark' from an "old poem" in the 1990s, which led to high-energy physics being defunded by the government.
I remember one conversation with Theodor Adorno when, after I'd said what I'd done that morning (checking out some books from the library, going to the laundromat, etc.), and asked "What about you," I was slightly chilled when he answered: "I have been meditating on erotic and musicological problems."
While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went
I like the sound of it, could imagine a haughty magus type saying it to Cugel in response to an impertinence.
some of the early exercises appear to be asking me to integrate a normalizing constant, which is less than couth.
dang, i've been reading what is, to me, a complicated bayesian data analysis textbook co-written by political scientist---so many levels of burn here.
criticule and maybe even criticaster are two, if we're wiling to overlook any daylight between criticism and opinionating (opining).
Her vibes, so to speak, are off somehow. A rictus she seems to wear.
I just always pull for the one-handed bh, though a bit conflicted with Tsitsipas.
I believe that Wallace invented the bit about Edberg's hobby being staring at walls, but, yes, professional tennis players seem unusually dim. The nothing major guys probably on the upper end, believe it or not.
USTA 4.5 and an English Professor!
I wonder if they didn't do the second book because they didn't think the actor who played Westerby in TTSS wasn't up for it or location filming expenses.
That's like asking John Dee if the spirits he raised sank the Armada.
A table of NFL conference championship games by winning percentage on basis of points scored.
Beckett describes climbing a tall larch as a child and jumping off (letting go?), letting the branches break his fall. All biographers seem credulous about this, though I have a hard time imagining it.
pithy
Not a day goes by where I don't wonder about Otis, what he thinks about events, etc.
Sure, historians of technology create cool new tech trees and write about the unquestioned virtues of the tech tree model, but they also have moments of: "did not involve the intercession of vulcanized rubber in the mingling of bodily fluids" (Edgerton, The Shock of the Old, p. 24)
even now part me wants to build that regex, but sloth is the better part of wisdom
70+ for for "fuck*"---not sure if JSTOR's moving wall indexes the latest. (A lot more than I would have guessed---what happened to decorum!)
stackexchange juxtapositions used to be one of my favorite forms of intermittent posting---les neiges d'antan...
