All posts in November 2007

Now that Pippa has attained the age of discretion — that is, now that she’s exercising musical taste that doesn’t depend primarily on what Margaret and I prefer, and she has her own birthday iPod — the different iTunes libraries scattered among us are increasingly difficult to keep track of. So my idea for the…

The Globe and Mail urges the recording industries (music, movies) to adapt to the changing environment, rather than trying to make the environment conform to the specifications of their obsolescent business model. Selling music on CDs is just a bad business model. Taking digital information, burning it onto a piece of plastic, wrapping that in…

Tom sent me an offline note that points to a blog that’s promulgating PDFs major works by postmodern theorists — in this case, Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind. Tom points to this paragraph from fark yaralari: For Derrida drawing is itself blind; as an act rooted in memory and anticipation, drawing necessarily replaces one kind…

After two major journeys, I have much catching up to do — I haven’t really unpacked from San Diego, so I need to straighten up my clothes and luggage from both trips, and do much laundry; I have to catch up on email and memoranda; listening to the Barclay-vs.-Wright contretemps over “Paul and Empire,” thanks…

We pulled into Princeton pretty much on schedule, having squeezed artfully between rush hour in Greater Boston/Providence and in Greater NYC. The driving went smoothly, apart from a wee complexity engendered by our efforts to repair the blown fuse. Our first crack at fuse replacement seems to have involved removing one fuse from where it…

I’m posting this from a ferryboat in the Atlantic Ocean.

We had a lovely time visiting family this weekend. Mom arranged for us to stay in a guest house, which meant we could relax with a degree of insulation from holiday hurly-burly; as it turned out, the isolation was helpful since Pippa seems to have developed a cold. Tomorrow morning we’ll leave Nantucket on the…

On the drive north, the fuse that controls the mirrors and cigarette lighter (apparently) on our 1996 Subaru Legacy Outback failed, and our fusebox doesn’t have the lid that displays what each fuse does. Does anyone know which fuse to replace, or where I’d find out? Google is not extremely helpful for this problem, sad…

No, not really. We wish. Thanksgiving this year gathered the five Adams in our local nuclear unit, sister Holly and my mom, all three aunts (Isabelle, Grace, Harriet) plus Harriet’s husband Bob; Harriet’s Rebecca and Alison and their husbands and daughters; Isabelle’s daughters Martitia (with her husband) and Adele. “Had a Thanksgiving Dinner that couldn’t…

We arrived safely on Nantucket, but connectivity here is sparse — dominated by a pay-per-day wireless provider which I refuse to pay $12 per day for (specially when I won’t be at my computer that much). Happy Thanksgiving to U.S.ians (Canadians have already celebrated, of course) and I’ll check back when I can.

We got back from San Diego last night at about 10, Pippa already comfily in her pjs, doing her laundry, and bemused at us. We woke up this morning in our own bed, with no breakfast meeting at a fancy hotel, and immediately started repacking our luggage in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday with family.…

Yesterday at the SBL Meeting was wake-to-sleep occupied — I was utterly wrung out by the time I fell into bed last night, and tonight looks like more of the same. To Anyone who tried to read the Magritte and Krazy Kat paper, I’m sorry about what WordPress does with paragraphing; I’ve tried several work-arounds…