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Web Projects #1: Background and Motivation

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Steve

In the summer of 2007 I accepted a one-year PA-ship as editorial assistant at an academic journal; it was my second such job, and my previous experience certainly aided in getting the job. Where this position differed from the previous … Continue reading →

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Tuscaloosa, First Full Day …

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Steve

I bought: desk & chair, bookcase, pillow, pants, and a bottle of wine. And then: a bed … I will have it delivered tonight. I will move stuff to my new apartment (Bhavin’s place) tonight; but I’ll stay one more … Continue reading →

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Protected: Apartment Hunting

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Steve

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And so universalem begins …

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Steve

I’ll write more … later. A decade ago I played the title role in Gryphius’ Absurda Comica oder Herr Peter Squentz, in which Mr. Squentz refers to himself as a “Universalem.” Since then the word has stuck with me, and … Continue reading →

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Class dismissed …

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Steve

… so for some reason I started up “X-Men 3” via mplayer … perhaps boredom. I know I should pull a book off the shelf, either fiction or non-fiction for my work … or non-fiction that’s unrelated to my work … Continue reading →

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It’s fish-fry-Friday, but I had turkey.

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Steve

Let’s clear some links: Occam’s Razor: a webcomic, the first I’ll post today, but not the last. In Praise of Bullshit: it cites On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt. Pinky TA: a second webcomic, but not the last. A Lesson Is … Continue reading →

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Thorsday — no thunder

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Steve

At Fair Trade I finished Prague, Arthur Phillips’s first novel. He has a new one out there, Angelica, which Salon recently reviewed: The extravagantly talented novelist Arthur Phillips seems to be making a grand tour of all the best literary … Continue reading →

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Hump Day

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Steve

The middle of the week; a meeting with Hans on Friday. Today I decided to watch the new Die Hard movie — Live Free of Die Hard.

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More Kant, less Life

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Steve

This evening I was reading a book on Kant & Schiller & Aesthetics … well, between episodes of rewatching Matrix Revolutions. Horst Nitschack’s “Kritik der ästhetischen Wirklichkeitskonstitution” — Critique of the aesthetic constitution of reality — from Verlag Roter Stern, … Continue reading →

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Last night to tonight

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Steve

I hate it when people write “tonite.” I’m known for my own range of silly abbreviations, neologisms and the like, but “tonite” and “lite” are the ones that get me. Last night I re-viewed (I like funky hyphenation but am … Continue reading →

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