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I have no idea what this means, but it fills me with a mixture of horror and grim satisfaction that words can not describe. Apparently, Jeb ...

For as long as I've been online, doing the web thing, the email thing, the chat thing, and now the blog thing, I haven't done much o...

Whew. I don't get much chance to record stuff. But here are two more new tunes: Christina Sorting Records and Raechel's Song . I...

We got TV for hockey season. We watch all the games we can (which aren't many), and The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Hockey games ...

I recorded a couple tracks today. At least one of these will have a lyric soon, but both of them could be recorded again. I just had a compe...

Recently, CSU Stanislaus received a large donation in exchange for naming the new science building after the donor. During Academic Senate, ...

The Semester That Wouldn't Die is about to. At some point, I may write about some of the Internal Turmoil™ and other Serious Stuff™ that...

Different philosophers' writings strike me very differently. I want to say there's a certain feel to their work, and I want to say t...

Long Beach looked flat in the first period, and were outshot through the game nearly 3 to 1, something like 38 to 13. Stockton skated faster...

I've been busy again. But two of this morning's headlines have re-affirmed my hope for humanity, so I thought I'd share. First o...

Apparently, someone involved in the protest action organized by CFA at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting captured some video of the event. W...

According to police estimates, 1200 people - mainly faculty, but also staff, students, alumni, and other supporters of public higher educati...

Ah, to be alive and awake at quarter til 5 on a Wednesday morning in Turlock ("Land of a Thousand Smells")! But we gotta go. More ...

My student, Joshua, asked a couple months ago about home-brewing beer. We brewed a batch of porter (my choice; sometimes you gotta make the ...

Not everyone understands the steps involved in voting, so I thought I'd put together a handy-dandy guide on how to vote. 1. Be, or becom...

I finished the mid-term papers, finally, and returned the last class worth of them today. Wow, do I feel better. Increasingly over the last ...

If you imagine there's a direct inverse correlation between frequency of my posts and how busy my life is (as measured, say, by the numb...

It was a good weekend, if a busy and exhausting one, in Sacramento, where we went to attend the CFA Assembly (Lauren always comes with me, b...

I had a decent time in Philly. The conference went well, I survived both the red-eye and general lack of sleep, and aside from some minor ha...

Yes, the City of Thirteen. I leave tonight for Philly, to attend the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences. I'm taking a red-...