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- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 hr ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 7 hrs ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 1 day ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 3 days ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 4 days ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 5 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 5 days ago
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Monthly Archives: November 2003
Mmmm. Appley goodness.
I’m not much of a hard cider drinker. I’ve had draft ciders on occasion, and although they were an enjoyable change of pace, I was never overly taken by them. On the advice of friends, Jamie recently had a Woodchuck Amber, and thought it was pretty darn good. But, you know, you never really know [...]
Getting into law school
The number one post-graduation employment in our major, retail. That’s something we don’t advertise much. It’s not entirely our fault. Communication has traditionally been a catch-all for business and computer science drop-outs, as well as the sustaining academic wing of the football team on some campuses. On the other hand, I am perhaps the worst [...]
Lacking context
In dealing with states that are outright criminal, the United States may at times need to take unilateral action to protect its citizens, its interestes, its integrity. This need not take as dramatic a form as our invasion of Panama and arrest of General Manuel Noriega, though it would be unwise in dealing with criminal [...]
Book Scanning
Pictured to the left is the Kirtas APT Bookscan 1200. The “1200″ refers to the number of pages it can scan in an hour. Automatic page turners and book scanners have been a longheld interest of mine. Check out their site and watch the demo video. The process itself seems like one that is simple [...]
Like wheat
My mother’s dissertation was published as one of the first ebooks from Columbia University Press. It is called Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon. A recent review in the American Historical Review has this to say: The title of Mary Halavais’s impressive first book refers [...]
Dead Libraries
Academic libraries are the walking dead. I just got booted out of ours at six, and it won’t be open tomorrow. They close early on Saturdays, too. Our library seems closed, of course, whenever I seem to need it. They even seem to turn off their servers many nights, for reasons that are entirely beyond [...]
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