quadruple trouble
Tagged by Weez, I am compelled to respond.
March 1, 2006
January 9, 2006
...i got nothin'...
...meh...
November 21, 2005
robot moose foils poachers
- Robot poachers foil moose.
- Foiled poachers moose robot.
- Poached moose foils robot.
- Foiled moose poaches robot.
- Moosed robot poaches foil.
November 20, 2005
mistakes were made
Kitchen Occupant 1: I fixed the kitchen sink.
Kitchen Occupant 2: Yeah? What was wrong?
Kitchen Occupant 1: There was a big chunk of thawed spinach stuck in the pipe.
Kitchen Occupant 2: How did that happen?
Pause.
Kitchen Occupant 1: You know, I know many people want me to play the blame game, or to point fingers. But I'm not going to do that. It's important that we focus on the recovery process. I have a live to live, and that's what I intend to do.
Pause.
Kitchen Occupant 2: Uh-huh.
Aaaaand....scene.
October 14, 2005
friday cat blogging
Once the cats learned that blogging requires opposable thumbs, they lost interest. They agreed to be photographed, however.
September 15, 2005
things to get done today
Well, it's a lot, but I think I can do it...
- Two hours. Work uninterrupted on the article that is nearly complete: the overall structure is done; I need to fill in all the details, format the citations, smooth out the transitions, polish the intro and conclusion. Start by looking over what I have, then making notes on work to get done. Jump in to the editing and writing. Then finish by making notes on what to do tomorrow.
- Two hours. Read the latest issue of the Top Journal in My Field, and consider whether the article should be sent there. I was IM'ing with a distant friend who has published in said journal, and she encouraged me to send it there. If nothing else, they have a decent turnaround time. I've already decided on the next two journals if TJiMF turns me down. I dread cranky readers' reports, though. The earlier version of this article was criticized for getting key factual claims wrong, but it was the reader (and not me) who had those facts wrong. Dude, I've looked at the primary documents, and I know what I'm talking about. I've been going to the gym for months, and you're not gonna kick sand in my face anymore!
- One hour. Freewrite new stuff related to preaching and eighteenth-century auditory culture.
- One hour (?). Wrap up some loose ends from last semester's teaching.
- One hour (?). Answer the emails that I have been ignoring from people at my home institution.
- One hour (?). Work with MovableType to see if I can pull off the category-specific RSS feeds. Also, add category links to each blog entry and add links to specific comments, both of which features were lost when I change the layout at the beginning of the year.
- One hour (?). Run errands: post office & drycleaning.
- 30 minutes (?). Phone call with my dad about upcoming trip to Vietnam.
August 23, 2005
news from texas
Texas Representative Joe Barton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, doesn't think much of the way Europeans live their lives:
They don't understand the lifestyle where you live in Arlington, Texas, and drive to Dallas or Fort Worth to work. Or maybe you live in Plano or Denton and ... go back and forth. I don't think they [the Europeans] really understand the concept of personal freedom. They think everybody ought to live in an eight-story walkup with no air conditioning and ride bicycles everywhere...That's not Texas. And I'm not apologetic about that.
In completely unrelated news, 5 of the 25 fattest cities in America are in Texas.
August 17, 2005
spell with flickr
July 25, 2005
i, meme, mine
Acephalous has hit me with the latest book meme:
1. How do you organize your collection?
Very poorly.
2. What books or records do you keep separate from your collection for easy access?
I have a substantial collection of book history and textual studies books on top of my bookcase in my office at school. I have a somewhat smaller collection of religious studies and Methodist history books on another shelf.
3. When you take down a book for reference, how long after you finish it does it take you to reshelve it?
I'm supposed to reshelve it?
4. What resources do you keep separate from your collection because you don't want anyone to know you have it?
I have 30 years worth of comic books--2,000 of 'em--in a vault, in white boxes, behind a black curtain, under a cloak of invisibility.
Tag, you're it: Bright Star, Heidi, Limadean, Joe, and every single one of the Wordherders.
July 13, 2005
who wants postcards?
I leave on Saturday morning. If you'd like a postcard from Manchester, England, send gmail to non.zombie.
Then, of course, you must post a pic of said postcard to your blog. Unless you don't have a blog. In which case you're off the hook.
July 7, 2005
william, it was really nothing
And so, here are the photos from Manchester with "some echo of a Smiths* lyric."
- "Every day is silent and gray"
- "Girlfriend in a coma"
- "How can you say I go about things the wrong way?"
- "I'm a girl and you're a boy"
- "Hang the DJ"
*The Smiths being a band from Manchester who are no more.
June 30, 2005
i am a sonic death monkey...
...roaming the streets of Oxford, England without a leash.
June 24, 2005
cranky zombie
Although this post will be about a few things that irritate me while working in the BL, I do want to emphasize that being here is a 99% positive experience. But can't people keep it down?
- To "Mr. Clicky," who keeps pressing the mouse button to move down the long web page he's reading ... click ... click ... click ... click click click click click click clickclickclick ... Dude, notice that thing in the middle of the mouse? It's called a scroll wheel. Look into it.
- To "Mr. Smacky," who randomly smacks his lips while reading his Derrida...*smack*...(long silence)...*smack*...Need a drink of water? The fountains are right over there.
- To the two-fingered typists who apparently feel that they must really! hit! those! keys! as they type--take it easy. Your keyboard will last longer.
- To the chronic coughers, ask Mr. Smacky where the water fountains are or buy some cough drops in the cafe.
- To the woman who has somehow managed to make turning pages a very loud activity...take it easy. The books will last longer.
- To the people whose computers keep announcing their every "save," "open," "restore," and "error" with a different cartoonish sound...it's called a mute button. Look into it.
- And to the 99% of you who do conduct your research quietly...it's a pleasure to be in the room with you.
"Zombie does get cranky sometimes."
June 11, 2005
changes to messaging accounts
June 9, 2005
what kind of irony?
Can someone clarify for me the type of irony involved in an actor having to apologize for his real-life violent behavior while on a press tour to promote a movie celebrating a man's redemption through beating the crap out of people?
June 6, 2005
get your link on
- Timothy Burke on markets and the public sphere.
- PowerProf and the Little Professor on academic summers.
- Jon Pareles slags Coldplay. (NYT)
- "Dr. [John Q. ] Walker is developing technology that enables him to break down the sounds of an old recording, digitize them and reproduce them on a Disklavier, an up-to-the-minute player piano that can record and replay performances by means of a CD in a slot above the keyboard." (NYT)
- Rockin' the Torah (via NYT).
- Deborah Friedell on concordances. (NYT)
June 2, 2005
we got links!
Why spend any time outside today when you can keep your skin pasty white by remaining hunched over your computer indoors for hours at a time? Here, let me help:
- "Around 1452 the first operational printing press was created, followed in 1799 by lithographic printing. Now, these inventions are reflected in the world's first bacterial printing press." (New Scientist, via Slashdot).
- Fashion reporter Stephanie Rosenbloom addresses "the plight of the Google-ee." Oh, the hearbreak! (NY Times).
- "80 Years of The New Yorker to Be Offered in Disc Form" for $100 (NY Times). Of interest to local readers: "In early 2004, two staff members drove two copies of each issue of the magazine to Kansas City in a rented truck to have them digitally scanned."
- "A filmmaker who has been collecting digital artifacts for 25 years is amassing the world's largest collection of podcasts" (Wired).
- Liz finds Dance Dance Revolution to be an excellent way to get fit.
- I have no idea what's going on in cartoonist Carol Lay's latest arc (click "next" starting with this one), but it's kind of compelling.
- Professional indie rock f'ups, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, will go on tour this summer, hitting London a few days after I arrive, conveniently enough. You can legally download a ton of their music for free from their website and relive the band's multi-year implosion by renting the documentary DiG!.
- Sharon Howard kicks the ass of all previous History Carnivals. (Cliopatria)
- Map your Flickr photos (FlickrBlog).
- Download "This American Life" installments instead of streaming them.
May 31, 2005
printer: for sale / want to buy
Our HP Laserjet 1000 is incompatible with our Powerbooks, though it works with our creaky old Gateway that may not be long for this world. It's a great and reliable little printer. Does anyone in Kansas City want to buy it?
What recommendations do you, dear reader, have for a new printer that works with Apple computers? Something with Bluetooth capability, perhaps? Or does that add too much to the cost?
Update: What about the HP PSC 1610 All-in-One? Only $129 and it prints, copies, and scans, though it has no built-in wireless. Is buying an "all-in-one" asking for trouble?
May 29, 2005
From jill's flickr photos: "Ethan and Vika considering fish"
I am in love with Flickr, now. I only have a free account, but even the free account allows you to do so much. For example, here's a photo that Jill just posted of Ethan and Vika. I logged into my account, checked to see what recent photos have been taken by people I've chosen as contacts, and from within the Flickr interface I can post to my blog, which is what I'm doing now. There's also a plugin for iPhoto that allows you to export easily to Flickr.
May 28, 2005
podcasting museum guides
Now this I find very interesting.
[T]hese museum guides are an outgrowth of a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their travels - walking on the beach, wandering through the French Quarter - and upload them onto the Internet for others to enjoy.
May 22, 2005
bad idea
There are many things to remember fondly about the '80s and bring back in an ironic or semi-ironic fashion. Polo shirts with the collars flipped up are not among them. Just. Stop it. If not for yourself, for the children.
May 8, 2005
everything's fine
I just have nothing to say lately. This (mp3, 5.3M) will disappear soon. I saw this last week. I'd like to see this. I recently read this. In my spare time, I hope to be doing more with these and/or this soon.
In my non-spare time, I'll be doing a lot of reading and writing for the foreseeable future.
April 18, 2005
coincidence?
- Kevin notes the widespread availability of bike racks in Scandinavia.
- Heidi points out that our new library could use some bike racks.
According to Men's Fitness, Kansas City is among the 25 fattest cities in America.
Hint #2 about my new life: The city to which we are moving is also on the list with Kansas City.
April 11, 2005
thomson-gale: free access this week
It's National Library Week, and Thomson-Gale is offering free access to its electronic resources all week long.
April 8, 2005
catch ya later
Hey, y'all, I'm crazy busy right now. In fact, I'm about to leave for a conference in another state. Granted, the state is just a few miles away, and it's an undergraduate conference, but you get my drift. I know I owe you an email (yes, you...and you...and you, too). Please be patient. My mental health thanks you.
April 6, 2005
recent acquisitions
 | Jacques Derrida Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression |
 | Catherine Gallagher & Stephen Greenblatt Practicing New Historicism |
 | David Hempton Methodism: Empire of the Spirit |
 | Adam Nicholson God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible |
 | Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
March 30, 2005
three thoughts for the day
In no particular order:
- Give Up, by The Postal Service, just may be the best music ever created in the history of the universe.
- Within what interpretive framework would it be a good thing for the inside of a Starbucks to smell like a kitty litter box that needs to be cleaned?
- There is no 3.
March 22, 2005
what the...?
It's been snowing for a few hours now. This is clearly against the rules. It's spring!
hypomania
"Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive!" by Benedict Carey (NYT):
In recent decades, scientists have found that bipolar disorder is widely variable, and that its milder forms are marked by hypomanias, currents of mental energy and concentration that are less reckless than full-blown manic frenzies, and unspoiled, in many cases, by subsequent gloom.
New research helps explain how people with manic or hypomanic tendencies navigate the small triumphs and humiliations of daily life, and provides clues to how some of them quickly shake off the emotional troughs that their ambitious natures should make inevitable.
February 11, 2005
one more friday question
Oh, yeah: I have used a scanner before to scan slides and transparencies, but is it possible to scan microfiche using a regular scanner (one with a slide/transparency attachment) without having to use something like the Minolta MS 6000 (which I don't think we have at my university)?
friday's random questions
- What would cause the front tires on the car to wear unevenly such that the inside edge of each tire is worn down much faster than the outside edge?
- If I publish an entry in MovableType with a link to an entry on another blog, how do I make changes to that entry without sending an extra trackback?
- How do I add additonal search engines to Firefox? When I click on the "add search engine" option in the drop-down menu, I am taken to a page that tells me it's possible to add more without telling me how. Can I add my university library?
- What's the best way to kick yourself out of inactivity and start exercising regularly?
- How can I add a "Post to Del.icio.us" function to Firefox (other than just using a bookmark)?
- Is it better to buy a new car, or a late-model used car with a warranty from some place like CarMax or a dealer? I'm leaning toward the latter, given that one can get a good deal on prices, but I'm also wary of getting a car with problems.
January 21, 2005
this just in
Having solved the crises of world hunger, rampant poverty, global human rights abuses, and pharmaceuticals priced out of reach for most of the world's population, "conservative Christian groups accuse the makers of a video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon characters of promoting homosexuality to children."
January 17, 2005
article missing pages
If you have access to a library with the journal Oxford Literary Review, could you do me a favor? I am reading "Technology Inside: Enlightent and Romantic Assumptions of the Orality/Literacy School" by Timothy Clark (1999) 21:57-72.
My library's ILL department provided me with an electronic (scanned) copy of this article, but the scan lacks pages 58 & 59. I'll ask them to fix the problem, of course, but in the interests of time perhaps someone could photocopy (or scan) those two pages and fax (or email) them to me. If this doesn't inconvenience you terribly, please email me to let me know, and I'll send you the fax number.
Thanks ever so much.
January 16, 2005
my ongoing bibliography
Here's something a little OCD about me: Whenever I take a stack of books back to the library, I record them in a little list because I'm afraid I haven't gotten everything out of them and might need to go back and reread them.
I almost never reread them, of course.
January 11, 2005
emily dickinson as manga heroine...
...is probably my favorite image transformation that you can view here.
books of possible interest
This entry is a list of books I gleaned from the catalogs at MLA 2004. Some might help me with my own research, some might be good for teaching, and some just sound interesting.
This one is at the top of my list, at the moment: Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century, edited by John Bender and Michael Marrinan (Stanford UP, 2005). The publisher's blurb reads, "Regimes of Description responds to the perception—however imprecise—that forms of knowledge in every sector of contemporary culture are being fundamentally reshaped by the digital revolution."
January 9, 2005
pleasure reading
There's a stack of books by the bed that I'll be tackling as my late-night reading this semester, starting with...
Whitney Terrell, The Huntsman
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel
Chang Rae Lee, Aloft
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
January 8, 2005
stranger than fiction
Reality television continues to astound me:
- Having met on the set of American series The Surreal Life, Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav are now romantically involved and have their own reality show, which starts tonight on VH-1. [NY Times story]
- Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Germaine freakin' Greer is on the latest season of Britain's Celebrity Big Brother, which also features Nielsen. [Guardian story]
January 6, 2005
temporary limbo
- Do I owe you a blog entry? Definitely.
- Do I owe you an email? Probably.
- Do I owe you revisions on an article? All signs point to yes.
We returned from our sojourns and then entertained houseguests for a few days. So now I really have to hotfoot it to get ready for the semester. In lieu of a real blog entry, here are a few unrelated factoids for your consumption regarding developments Chez Zombie:
- It appears that whenever someone clicks on one of the ads I now have on my archive pages, 5 cents goes into my account for BlogAid. Keep that in mind, kids.
- When I mentioned earlier that "[m]y mp3 collection is growing by leaps and bounds," what I should have said was, "I have acquired more new music in two days than I usually get in a year."
- We are making the spare bedroom into a serious, get-work-done office for both of us. Almost there.
- Now that Max is gone, I plan to start volunteering for Wayside Waifs soon. They had a volunteer orientation scheduled for tonight, but it was cancelled due to all the snow and ice on the roads.
- The above development means we get to watch the latest (taped) episodes of Lost and Alias tonight.
- As soon as I get my bedside table and lamp, I'm seriously cutting back on the late-night blog reading. I mean it this time. No, really.
January 4, 2005
ads on my blog
Okay, without asking Jason's permission (and I hope it's okay), I've added Google Adsense ads to my website. Why? All money earned from these ads will go towards tsunami relief efforts as part of BlogAid. Money is generated when users click through ads for products that they are interested in. I don't know how much money these ads will generate, but it doesn't hurt to try.
December 18, 2004
how to buy a new stereo
I haven't won the lottery or anything, but it is with a great deal of shock that I realize more than twenty years have passed since I purchased non-portable equipment for playing music. Needless to say, that equipment has since gone on to the electronics hereafter. When, over the past few months, I have made forays into stores that I thought would sell decent stereos, I did not have much success.
I therefore call upon the wisdom of the blogosphere to recommend particular models of stereo equipment, including (but not limited to)
- Receivers
- Record Players
- CD players
- DVD players
- VCRs
- Any combination of 3, 4, & 5
- Speakers
Clap! Clap!
Let the advising begin!
December 16, 2004
darkness visible
For Rana, and the rest of us who fight this particular fight:
|
And I have lived that kind of day When none of your sorrows will go away. It goes down and down and hit the floor, Down and down and down some more. Depression! But I know there'll be some way, When I can swing everything back my way, Like skyscrapers rising up. Floor by floor, I'm not giving up. I've been beat up. I've been thrown out, But I'm not down. I'm not down. I've been shown up, but I've grown up. And I'm not down. I'm not down. |
December 15, 2004
page 123, 5th sentence
Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England, by Margaret Spufford (ISBN 0416741509):
The case of William Johnson of Lincoln, who was born in Scotland where his father died insolvent and became a pedlar in England, is an instructive one. He carried a pack of linen as a pedlar and by 1718 was able to take up a small shop in Lincoln where he at first sold hardware, caps, handkerchiefs and other ready-made wear in linen. He became a wholesale linen draper and a freeman of the city and eventually left a fortune of between 8000 and 9000 [pounds]. William Johnson's successful career from pedlar to freeman and shopkeeper suggests that the nineteenth-century Scottish model of a successful chapman's career may well hold true for earlier periods.
[meme via Words' End]
November 29, 2004
dealing with writer's block
"Hack your way out of writer's block," at 43 Folders. I think my favorite is "Talk to a monkey - Explain what you’re really trying to say to a stuffed animal or cardboard cutout." In general, I subscribe to the "Write for 10 minutes no matter what" technique. A good way to start the day with a strong cup of coffee.
November 22, 2004
universal theory
Don't read this autobiographically, dear reader, but I've been wondering (based on a number of conversations with others recently) if there might be a universal theory of calling it quits. How can you tell when it's time to...
- ...end a bad romantic relationship?
- ...give up on a creative project?
- ...toss an intellectual project in the dustbin?
- ...stop taking your drunk relative's calls?
- ...leave an unsatisfying job?
- ...cease trying to rehabilate an unproductive bunch of students?
Or do you take Winston Churchill's words to heart and never give up?
November 14, 2004
weird blacklist error message
I'm getting an odd couple of error messages on the latest version of MT-Blacklist as I work on setting up a new installation of MovableType as I work on the new version of Palimpsest. First, I notice that after a user posts a message, they get the regular "Thank you" notice and then this:
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at plugins/Blacklist/lib/Blacklist/App.pm line 44.
Second, at the bottom of the main Blacklist admin page, I get this:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/gwilliams/public_html/cgi-bin/extlib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 78.
Neither of these appears to affect negatively the function of MT or of Blacklist. Any thoughts on how to get rid of these?
October 22, 2004
open for business
September 19, 2004
grrr!
So why can't I search the catalogue of the British Library this weekend? wtf? I've got work to do! If you claim to be the repository of the "World's Knowledge," shouldn't you keep your site up and running?
September 2, 2004
microsoft on reading
Via Slashdot:
neile writes "I stumbled across a fascinating paper over at the Microsoft Typography site today that provides a really nice overview of the different theories on how humans read. If you thought we read by recognizing word shapes, think again! With the assistance of fancy eye-tracking cameras researchers have been able to devise several clever experiments to give us new insight into how reading works." We've linked to some of Larson's work previously.
June 9, 2004
[content deleted]
[content deleted - an invitation, intended for friends, to join a social networking site that strangers kept answering]
May 24, 2004
so much beauty (2)
task list on steroids
In a recent conversation, my grandma was impressed with how much time off I get during the summer. And it's true. With the exception of the following responsibilities, I have a three-month vacation. What to do? What to do?
The fall semester begins in thirteen weeks. One week of that will probably involve visiting family and friends in Georgia. For the rest, I have the following task list, which I hope to refine gradually:
- Get a tattoo.
- Reading
- Orality / literacy
- Critical literacy studies
- Theorizing media in transition
- Early modern print culture
- Eighteenth-century Methodism
- Writing
- Book proposal
- Article on eighteenth-century Methodist periodicals
- Article on eighteenth-centurry Methodist preaching
- Article on authorship attribution study of a particular preacher's sermons
- Revising a few grant applications for resubmission and mapping out grant deadlines
- Travel
- Three weeks researching at the Methodist Archives and Research Centre in Manchester, England
- One week at SHARP 2004 conference in Lyon, France
- Work on my academic portfolio in preparation for my third-year review next January
- Computing
- Tweak the department website
- Perhaps purchase a 12" iBook.
- Project work for Romantic Circles
- Experiment with Drupal (note this and this), WordPress, MediaWiki, PG Distributed Proofreaders.
- Work on ideas for Poetry Blam and Lit Out Loud. I've been experimenting with the sound editor Audacity with good results.
- Figure out if Palimpsest is worth continuing. I think it is, but perhaps with a different structure and perhaps run off of software other than MovableType .
- Teaching
- Prep for Intro to Shakespearean Drama
- Re-read the plays
- Watch the films
- Read Corrigan's book on writing about film (thanks for the recommendation, Chuck!)
- Prep for Histories of Writing, Reading, and Publishing
- Much of this preparation will take place as I complete the reading listed at the top of this entry.
- Plan next year's involvement in the UMKC Arts & Sciences Honors Program
- Create budget
- Year-long colloquium
- Honors section of English 225
- Academic Service Learning: Partnership with University Academy
- Honors conference in the spring.
- Digital honors journal
In short, summer is a busy time for those of us who work in academia!
May 2, 2004
walking into a bar: a contest proposal
Over lunch recently, Jeff mentioned the joke behind the title of Lynne Trusse's book Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which goes a little something like this:
A panda bear walks into a bar and orders lunch. He sits quietly munching his food, and after he finishes he wipes his mouth with his napkin, pulls out a gun, fires into the ceiling and walks out.
"What was that all about?" the bartender asks the waiter.
"Oh, that's what a panda bear does. Eats, shoots and leaves."
(Obviously, this joke really only works when it's spoken: "eats, shoots and leaves" sounds just like "eats shoots and leaves.")
Later in the week, as we were talking about this joke and others of the [fill-in-the-blank]-walks-into-a-bar genre, I said that it seems to me that people don't really tell jokes so much anymore. I proposed a contest, or party game, in which people challenged each other with the front end of a joke, requiring the other participant to complete the joke. Whoever could do so in the shortest amount of time would win.
Jeff proposed, "A panda bear, a fox, and a gorilla walk into a bar."
I proposed, "A three-legged sled dog walks into a bar."
So, can you finish these jokes?
February 1, 2004
super bowl sunday
Yawn. Oh, I'm sorry, was there something on television today?
It's not that I don't appreciate the strategy involved in football or the visceral thrill of the game.
I just don't care. Not. one. little. bit. Why not? Who knows? Family influence? My dad lettered in marksmanship in college, and football on the tv was never a part of our household. I played baseball and soccer in elementary school, and then ran cross country one season in high school. Otherwise, I was too busy doing something else. Then, as now, music, books, and computers were a much bigger part of my life than sports, professional or otherwise.
But still, I can appreciate the importance of today's game. May the best team get the most home runs.
Kidding! I'm just kidding!
December 9, 2003
links, no comments
From the Technology and Bibliography department, via Slashdot: Remote-Controlled Robot Could Browse the Stacks.
From the Academic Blogger Attempts to Demonstrate He's Still Hip department: Cat Power is on tour in December. Well, Chan Marshall solo, anyway. Pitchforkmedia writes it up. Hilarity ensues.
From same department as above: Frank Black and the Catholics make four songs available exclusively on iTunes. However, no one will confirm if a Pixies' reunion is in the works for next summer.
From the Academics Who Like to Read Things that Upset Them department: Michael Bérubé writes about "Standards of Reason in the Classroom" in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Erin O'Connor, and others, take issue with what they see as his profiling of conservative students as mentally handicapped. Now, new life has been breathed into Bérubé's website, which is starting suspiciously to look like a blog, though he continues to claim it's not.