Academic blogging
I’ve discovered an interesting comment about this blog (and an implication about blogging) at Ralph Luker’s March 17, 2004, Cliopatria group blog entry: “Dorn seems to post to his blog primarily to let his dean and his in-laws know what’s going on. (I do my dean and in-law communicating separately and a little more privately.)” […]
Decisions, decisions
I’m doing significant course development work in the fall on an entirely distance-learning course, and for this I’ve been offered a rather nice stipend that comes from a federal grant. That’s very nice, but I don’t really want that stipend. (I’m also not sure that I can take it, since I’m teaching an overload course […]
Functional data analysis
Every once in a while, I choose some form of “brain candy” to read for work—something that’s out of my field and that’s just fun in some sense, because there’s no pressure other than the challenge of reading something new. Because of something an editor suggested to me, I decided to see what functional data […]
Kitsch memorials
By Sherman Dorn on June 30, 2004
With the death of Ronald Reagan, there were the inevitable “what is his place in history?” gabfests as well as proposals to put his name or face on everything from the $20 bill to Mount Rushmore. What was missing in the latter was a sense of perspective about memorial acts and sites as public events […]
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