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The Library of Congress has webcast notices by feed
The Library of Congress webcasts looks like an amazing collection of lectures available through RealPlayer, and the announcements on the relevant pages are now fed through rss. I wish that LOC had automated the system so that they would be podcasted, but I suppose you can’t have everything.
Florida no longer has the silliest school calendar
As the Dayton Daily News observes, Believe it or not, school’s back in… in Ohio. Thanks to a state law, Florida public schools cannot open earlier than two weeks before Labor Day, a move to forestall the nutty shoving of the school calendar further back into the Sweaty Season to eke out a few more weeks before […]
A double-dare for Eminem and 50 Cent
From Confessions of a Community College Dean: Word you never hear in rap: azalea. For extra credit: put orange at the end of a rhymed line without using door hinge.
Appointment snafus
The first problem with the morning, my putting one appointment down for 9 am instead of 10, is entirely my problem, but I’ve had to cancel a 10:30 meeting in another part of town for it. Not fatal, just mortifying. The second problem is about an afternoon meeting and a conflict between the legitimate need […]
On working when sick
By Sherman Dorn on August 19, 2007
I’m a fairly healthy adult, on the whole, and lucky to be so. Apart from whatever genetic proclivities I inherited from my parents and the tendency to be too sedentary when work piles up, I’m not sick too often, have reasonable control over my faculties, and consider myself temporarily able-bodied, with some luck staying that […]
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