habitually probing generalist

The technology of orgasm: “hysteria,” the vibrator, and women’s sexual satisfaction Rachel P. Maines; The Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I really wanted to title this “universal orgasmic mutuality” [see below] but I figure this post is already going to draw too much of the wrong traffic to my blog. ::sigh:: This book [...]

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Yesterday I finished reading Walt Crawford’s “Zeitgeist: hypePad” article in the newest Cites & Insights. Walt did a fine job of summarizing a lot of blowhards and a few sane persons. But. The further along I got the stronger my apprehension got. Was Walt going to notice something I was noticing or was he buying [...]

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Ready for writing/research. Originally uploaded by broken thoughts Decided to clean up my writing/working areas before I buckle down and attempt to write my bibliographic essay. Sure. It was a diversion to keep from real work. But this is a diversion that should pay huge dividends. I can actually see most of the desktop and [...]

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Sunday, Oct 21 Who Is Tagging Information? – Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo). Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums. The panel was down two members so that [...]

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I want to add a few comments and, perhaps, caveats to Meredith’s use of the bookstore as an analogy in her post, “It’s not just the OPACs that suck.” I want to emphasize that I generally agree with Meredith here. I do not think she crossed any lines that shouldn’t be crossed. But we see [...]

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Let me begin by saying that I had a wonderful “Christmas.” I put Christmas in quotes because, as it has been for a long time, Christmas is really a couple to a bunch of Christmases at different places over what may be a several week period (only 6 days this year). It was great to [...]

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Unproductive consumption of goods is honourable. I recently finished this little, but powerful, book [OWC]. Actually, I believe it is an excerpt from a much larger work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited and introduced by Robert Lekachman (Penguin Classics, 1994) [OWC]. I bought this book in the Penguin Books . Great Ideas series. [...]

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As some of you (may) know, I am not a big fan of reading challenges. Nor do I do resolutions. You may also know that currently I do not read many books (as you will see soon enough [future link]); although I do have a pretty good theory about why my reading is what it [...]

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So much for my pleasure with myself over how I wanted to use the Calhoun Report to focus on what our “response” might be. I really wanted to discuss What can we accept from it? What needs a different scope, modal verb, etc. for acceptance? What can be added? And, the big one, how we’ll [...]

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My Akismet spam filter just caught a message about sexy Halloween costumes. Boy was that ever a tempting one to look at. I mean, seriously, anyone who can sell me a costume to make me look sexy…. Too good to be true.  So I just nuked it; but I did hesitate for a few seconds.

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