Friday Quick Hits and Varia
Grading final papers and exams has severely cut back on my browsing and reading time, but I can offer a few quick hits and varia:
If you don’t check out Teaching Thursday regularly, you really should. The recent reflections offered by first year and second year faculty are really interesting little case studies into the start of an academic career.
This is kind of a big deal for me…
Aside from the fact that my blog does not do any of these things, this is a great model for how to write a blog.
Apparently, doing stuff, is hard work.
Hearing that the Godrej and Boyce typewriter factory in India was to close, rekindled my interest in typewriters. In fact, I dusted off my Smith Corona Sterling and ordered new ribbons for it. I also wrote an email to Godrej and Boyce asking if I could buy one. I received a response yesterday saying more information will come soon!
My post yesterday was the among the most popular posts I have ever posted on this blog (after only 24 hours). UPDATE: Now I know why. The author of the Chronicle article Tweeted my blog post and offered some comments.
HT to Kostis Kourelis for linking to the National Jukebox.
This documentary on the West Indian Cricket Teams of the late 1970s and 1980s looks pretty cool. Here’s the trailer. (or at least looks much cooler than this).
What I am reading (other than a stack of final papers): World Archaeology Special Volume on Postcolonialism 43.1 (2011). (HT Dimitri Nakassis)
What I am listening to: Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey and Hail H.I.M.; Dub Colossus, A Town Called Addis.
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