Have you ever seen one of those screwball comedy scenes in which the regular guy protagonist walks into a bar and only after a few bumbling scenes and conversations filled with misunderstanding and innuendo does he realize… hey, everyone here is gay, this is one of those gay bars people talk about?
I was intrigued by [...]
I arrived in Boston this evening for a conference on public intellectuals. As befitting intellectuals about public intellectuals, we have been put up in a nice hotel right next to Fenway. When I came back from dinner, the turn-down service not only had left cookies on my pillow and started soft music playing, [...]
The squizzle in the banner in some browser appears to be gone. At least in IE, the banner also seems to have any annoying tendency now to disappear entirely. I will work on more general template repair when I am back from my conference.
Non sequitur: There is not a single Whole Foods in [...]
Wicked Anomie has gone into business selling blind reviewer voodoo dolls.
I am reading this blog on Internet Explorer right now. Instead of the visited links being gray like they are when I read Scatterplot in Firefox, they are blue, which leads to an aesthetically unpleasing mismash of gray and blue all over the page. Not only that, but on the far right of [...]
From CNN.com:
Obama picked up an endorsement from California superdelegate Crystal Strait…
“Barack Obama has shown a real commitment to young voters in his campaign, and in response, young people have overwhelmingly voted and caucused for Obama,” Strait said in a written statement.
“We know that if a young person votes three times in a row for a [...]
BTW: Things are looking final for Sal and me going to Malawi to teach a course on data analysis at the end of June. This will be my first time to Africa, my first time crossing the equator, and my first time doing anything even remotely like this. When I signed up, my thought was Adventure!, [...]
Because I’m writing a paper on blogging for a small conference on Friday. I spent several days being stymied by said paper because of teaching, competing professional obligations, my secret new supernerdy hobby, and other distractions. Then I moved to being stymied by said paper by a general lack of ideas. More accurately: I have many ideas about blogging, but the [...]
My hometown is Manson, Iowa (no relation to Charles or Marilyn), population 1800 or so. This morning in my inbox:
Dear Jeremy,
Another Manson-born academic ([name], at the University of Iowa) sent me (a Manson-born academic at the National University of [exotic foreign country]) the URL of your website, which I greatly enjoyed. Congratulations on that: [...]
A couple of frustrations here at work. Some days I think, “I wish I was getting more done.” Some days I think, “Why am I not just punching out and instead spending my time on my secret new super-nerdy hobby?”*
I was sufficiently despairing by the end of the day that I plopped down [...]
Does Google return the same search results to everyone, or does it customize the results based on some information its cookies have adduced about you? By my Google search results, anyway, our blog has now climbed all the way to #2 for What You Get If You Search For Scatterplot, preceded only by the [...]
I finally ran outside for the first time in 2008 yesterday. Not five minutes into my run, I was bitten by a beagle. Nipped. It didn’t break the skin. Still. Every time you smile at an unleashed dog in the park, the terrorists win.
Quiz feature (answer after the jump): For what book were the authors [...]
Northwestern has rescinded its invitation to Jeremiah Wright to receive an honorary degree at commencement. A colleague of mine told me about this and thinks this will be a Big Deal around campus. I say, it will be a Not So Big Deal. Any guesses?
I haven’t thought about it any length, [...]
I was supposed to play Super Mario Kart on my Wii this evening, but then that didn’t happen. (You know who you are.) I could have, however, worked on either of the two papers with pressing deadlines. Or I could have worked on my new, too-dorky-to-confess-to hobby project. Or I could [...]
Here. Click the now button for the most compelling version, especially if you just let it run while, say, being on the elliptical trainer.
Anyway, if you aren’t in the mood for tragedy, can you at least tell me if you have any opinion either about the Amazon Kindle or these new Flip Video cameras? [...]
As further evidence that I am in the throes of the lamest midlife crisis ever, I have spent much of the weekend spurning pleasant social opportunities in favor of working alone on a new hobby so geeky/dorky I cannot bear the idea of talking about it publicly. And given things I have mentioned about myself [...]
When I was in New Orleans for a conference last week, I left my sportsjacket somewhere with my cell phone inside. It was later recovered, but while it was lost I had the bright idea of calling it from the phone in my hotel room. I hung up as soon as my voicemail [...]
I received the link today for the American Sociological Association elections. For those readers interested in canceling out my vote, here is how I voted for the association-wide offices (if anybody reads this who was running and did not get my vote: no offense, nothing personal, I’m a partly-stochastic voter, etc.):
President: Pescosolido
Vice President: Burton
Council [...]
BTW, orgtheory celebrated its second anniversary yesterday, so wish them a belated happy biennium if you haven’t. Even better, rumor is that they are working on a charity “Boys of Orgtheory” pin-up calendar.
We may be younger, but we are feistier and will still kick their bothers in the Wii tournament at ASA. Although we may [...]
I went to the dentist today. My tendencies toward the melodramatic can catch people who don’t know me off guard, and so perhaps I should not have answered the question on the intake form “How do you feel about your smile?” by writing “Ick. It makes me unlovable.” Regarding my sociology-infamous bottom [...]
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