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At work on Saturday

I have a bunch of things to catch up on, mostly with EPAA and teaching, so I’m here at my office.  But don’t worry: as a reward for reading my blog, you get a video!

Wasted another perfectly good hour…

Other fans of Car Talk will recognize the title phrase that Tom and Ray Magliozzi use at the end of their show, and right now the number one site on a Google search leads to another blogger’s noting the dissipation of time. In my case today, I had glorious intentions to spend the whole day […]

Academic joke

In lieu of content today, a joke: A political science professor, a mass comm professor, and a math professor were watching the news together. “To know the president and just get off like that, scot-free?” asked the political scientist. “I want to be Scooter Libby.” “You got it wrong, Jane,” said the mass comm professor. […]

Free trade doesn’t cover this one

The general principle with travel is to leave footprints and take pictures (and memories), so I didn’t return with much physical stuff, other than two Anders F. Rönnblom albums, two postcards, one book on international historical perspectives on child labor, and a copy of the Daily Mail to show my children what tabloid papers are […]

Norrköping trip photos, set 2

More photos from the Norrköping trip, just from the last evening in Copenhagen. I was exhausted by the end, but you should be able to identify the photographs related to my research. (I’ll highlight it in another entry in a few days.) Panoramic photograph of Kongens Nyrtorv (or King’s New) Square at sunset after the […]