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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Dog Walk

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Some apparently wild asparagus found while walking the dogs along the Tay River in Perth. Pictures taken with the phone, so they aren’t the best! At first I thought to myself, “Wow, that’s a giant blade of grass.” Turns out it wasn’t. In all we found five separate plants.

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Student Evaluations

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Queen’s sent me my evaluations today. Considering it was my first time teaching the course (full year classical social theory) and my first time teaching at the university, that my evaluations were thoroughly average (i.e., pretty much near the departmental mean for every evaluated aspect), I guess that isn’t too bad. Written in comment on [...]

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Collegial

Thursday, May 22, 2008

I was in Toronto on Tuesday to take part in small seminar/workshop around a draft of the first half of my supervisor’s book in progress on Montesquieu. (Given that the book isn’t under contract and it is still in draft, I don’t think I should say much about its contents at this time – but [...]

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Bad Music Tuesday

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

When we first heard the new Weezer song, “Pork and Beans,” on the radio, we were quite excited – it sounded like Rivers Cuomo had recognized what everyone knew all along: the best of Weezer relied upon Matt Sharp. The single is reminiscent of both “The Blue Album” and “Pinkerton,” which rank as among the [...]

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Cheap Books – Columbia UP

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

In my mail this morning – possibly of interest (Butler, Deleuze, Cixous, Derrida, Lefort, Kristeva, etc): I wanted to let you know about our White Sale which goes through May 31st. For more information, please visit: http://cup.columbia.edu/sale/23 We are offering up to 80% off on more than 1,000 titles in all subjects. (There are some [...]

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Rich Get Richer (2)

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Further confirmation of the general observation: the rich get richer and everyone else better be happy with what they had in 1970. From today’s “The Daily” report at STATSCAN on their analysis of earnings, income and shelter costs of the 2006 Canadian census (see also the longitudinal study here using data back to 1981): Median [...]

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