According to WebBikeWorld, BMW Motorrad has released the replacement for my bike: the R1200R! Oh, baby. Ever since they introduced the critically acclaimed R1200GS, I have been waiting for this bike. The R1200R is an evolution of the R1150R and R850R, which had combined sales of almost 60,000 units since 2001. BMW feels that there [...]
Archive | July, 2006
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Fun with Bibliographies
Who knew that works cited pages could be so fun? With the help of Ron Jerome‘s Bibliography module for Drupal, I’m beginning to really geek-out on my professional web site. Instead of a list of works that I have cited on this blog, I can how have individual entries for every work I cite (like [...]
The Strangeness of Homer’s Iliad
Can Achilles really be the first great hero of our literature? He seems a fool, an infantile narcissist. The first word of Western literature is menin — in old Greek, “rage” or “wrath.” Homer means Achilles’ rage, the kind of rage that has an element of divine fury in it and that destroys armies and [...]
Iliad Observations
In my old undergraduate notes, I found some sections from Great Books that deal with the Iliad. I cannot give the exact reference, as whatever professor gave me the photocopy had neglected to put in that information. If anyone knows, please let me know so I can give proper credit. From David Denby’s The New [...]
Let’s Just Ignore Them
It seems that I’m not the only one who has a problem with Ratemyprofessors.com (digg it). Eric Strand, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, suggests that we sue this ridiculous web site for misrepresenting our teaching ability with animated emoticons and flippant one-sentence dismissals that could become a profesional liability when on the job market. [...]
Writely
As if Google Notebook wasn’t cool enough. Now there’s Writely, an online word processor that seems to have been acquired by Google (of course). Who needs Word when you can do all of your word processing online? According to their web site, documents can be shared and stored online, to be edited from any web [...]
