Slowing down 12 Jan 2008 I am blogging lightly while I write madly in Real World™ conditions – some deadlines approach, such as grant deadlines, paper deadlines, book review deadlines and editing deadlines. That said, I will pop up for a bit occasionally, but bear with me. Deadlines being what they are, I will either return in early February to my normal lack of sense, or be dead (just don’t cross that line – editors are vicious). Administrative
Administrative Coming to Berkeley 9 Feb 2013 I’ll be in Berkeley (California, in case there’s another one somewhere) from around the 9th to the 15th of March, to give a talk to the Mellon-Sawyer series Speciesism and the Future of Humanity. Anyone who wants an unemployed philosopher to give a talk to their group also, or just… Read More
Administrative I’m [nearly] one year old 10 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 Everyone else is noting the pulse of migration to the SEED stable that occurred here a year ago. Oddly, my ecto links tell me I first posted here on the 25th of June, not the 9th, but who cares. Below the fold is my first post at Science Blogs. How’m… Read More
Administrative On blogging while tenure tracking 20 Jul 2008 John Hawks has an excellent essay up (I don’t know how correct it is, never having been on a tenure track) on the merits and problems of being an academic blogger. Do read it. Read More
Great. I’ve become somewhat addicted to this blog and now you tell me you’re gonna reduce supply. Is this a form of conditioning, where you give what’s sought in dribs and drabs, to strengthen behavior? If so, it’ll probably work.
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
Be careful, John, about announcing that you’ll be away from your blog for a time. You know where that leads… Dollis Hill Bob
I’m not going away (look out Bob, or I’ll sneak up behind you and thump), just relaxing a bit. Neasden.
You can never really leave… When that I was and a little tiny boy With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man’s estate, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, ‘Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my beds, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, With toss-pots still ‘had drunken heads, For the rain it raineth every day. A great while ago the world began, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, But that’s all one, our play is done, And we’ll strive to please you every day. — William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
The Latin for “Dog eat dog,” is “Canis canem edit.” One suspects that the Romans knew something about editors that we’ve forgotten.