Literature —
Perhaps Kyso Kisaen will be a bloggy guide and muse through the Rite of Femminess otherwise known as getting hitched; she seems to have her priorities straight:
I already know shit like “less booze = less money” or “borrow stuff or make it, teehee!” Any dumbass knows that skipping a 4-tier cake-orgy in favor of a […]
There’s an article in Nature this week about how physicists are all territorial beasts with the blood of their colleagues dripping from their manly fangs. And yes, Ad Lagendijk does emphasize the manliness of the fangs - if you’ve got a subscription or a privileged IP address, you can read the whole thing here. If […]
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - No title has ever been more cunningly concieved, more able to bypass all my many miserlinesses and leap into my ownership before I can blink. And quite right, too! Pirates! And scientists!
The book itself, once you get beyond the excitement of the mere fact of its existence, […]
Denmark plans to reassert its sovereignty over Hans Island, which’s ownership is also claimed by spunky upstart Canada:
The Arctic patrol cutter Tulugaq will attempt to reach the 1.3-square-kilometre Hans Island, which is claimed by both countries, in late August if the ice permits, navy spokesman Alex Jensen said.
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“If we manage to reach the island, we […]
Les hivers de mon enfance étaient des saisons longues, longues. Nous vivions en trois lieux: l’école, l’église et la patinoire; mais la vraie vie était sur la patinoire.
The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places — the school, the church and the skating-rink — but our real life […]
Unlike certain other Monday Reviews we could mention, this one respects the traditional meaning of Monday, lingering grumpiness included.
Mr. Coffee 12-cup drip coffeemaker: I can’t find the exact model number, unfortunately, because I very much need to express my dismay with the office machine in a way that Google will hear and understand. It is:
Slow
Drippy, […]
A throwaway line at Desbladet leads to the following question: Which knock-knock jokes are in the Western Knock-Knock Canon? Des’s inclusion of Irish stew in the name of the law indicates that there might be significant divergence between American and English Knock-Knock Canons, but let’s do forge ahead nonetheless.
I submit that the following jokes are […]
A few words of wisdom from Googletalk:
For millennia, man has been charged with a crime. You may be a mixed blessing for agriculture. A long-term care insurance quotes from multiple lenders, even if you don’t know, can hurt you by accident. I was in the room! With the adjoining owner’s property or the property of […]
So I’ve been asked to elaborate on my rather dim view of Big Scientific Metanarratives in lit-crit circles. Fair ‘nuf, but be forewarned that I’m working against my instincts here. Right now, my instincts are telling me to keep snarking about beer.
To begin: I apologize if I’ve made Harrison or any other of you […]
So my curiosity and I were piqued by mention of a lit-crit/humanities project requiring in-depth knowledge of general relativity, chez All Day Permanent Red. Unless it is a discussion of historical physics research papers qua literature and the broader cultural narratives constructed therein (”science studies“), I have no idea what it is. And it could […]