I got me a new Kodak v530 small enough to take anywhere. So more pictues here soon! Hooray!
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The picture I added here btw, is of the new Merry Ann’s Diner in downtown Champaign (now with WiFi). I took it while entering the text part of this post. Sort of neat, eh? Cheap thrills, I ’spose.
I do like it! Pics are almost always cheap thrills, I think, which is why they’re so fun. W/digital, you can have all the little thrills you want at no extra cost.
Were you moving in to the diner or were you just eating a bunch of books for breakfast?
Steeling himself for years on the rails in quest of the tenure-lined job, BFD has begun to carry his home around with him. True to the traditions of his itinerant academic forbearers, he can set up shop on any flat surface and begin the dispensation of knowledge. For full effect though, he must be located in a wireless hotspot, preferably near to a source of relatively fresh coffee. Indeed, he is the advance guard of vast thundering hordes of academics who will soon so enliven our landscape as to make it nigh impossible to purchase a copy of “Vanity Fair” without the accompaniment of sniggering or to go more than five minutes without catching view of a soul patch and thick chunky glass frames. Shine on, you crazy diamond!
Heh. My “Will teach for a hamburger” sign was just out of frame. Actually, that would be great, wouldn’t it? Back to the peripatetics, yes? And the new-economy wonders of self-tenure. I love it!
But it works too well with Condi Rice’s claim proclamation that “Each individual all over the world has the God-given right to express themselves.” Is there a more succinct example of the religious fundamentalism that underlies our ‘defense’ of Enlightenment values? Any one more scary?
Still, I enjoy the idea of academic ronin infiltrating the system from below.
March 29th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
You made me
promises promises
I knew you’d never keep.
;-)
March 30th, 2006 at 10:47 am
The picture I added here btw, is of the new Merry Ann’s Diner in downtown Champaign (now with WiFi). I took it while entering the text part of this post. Sort of neat, eh? Cheap thrills, I ’spose.
March 31st, 2006 at 1:17 pm
I do like it! Pics are almost always cheap thrills, I think, which is why they’re so fun. W/digital, you can have all the little thrills you want at no extra cost.
Were you moving in to the diner or were you just eating a bunch of books for breakfast?
March 31st, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Steeling himself for years on the rails in quest of the tenure-lined job, BFD has begun to carry his home around with him. True to the traditions of his itinerant academic forbearers, he can set up shop on any flat surface and begin the dispensation of knowledge. For full effect though, he must be located in a wireless hotspot, preferably near to a source of relatively fresh coffee. Indeed, he is the advance guard of vast thundering hordes of academics who will soon so enliven our landscape as to make it nigh impossible to purchase a copy of “Vanity Fair” without the accompaniment of sniggering or to go more than five minutes without catching view of a soul patch and thick chunky glass frames. Shine on, you crazy diamond!
April 1st, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Heh. My “Will teach for a hamburger” sign was just out of frame. Actually, that would be great, wouldn’t it? Back to the peripatetics, yes? And the new-economy wonders of self-tenure. I love it!
And ok, in an effort to assuage the ravenous appetite of ambimb for pictures of Champaign, I hereby link to a new Flickr photoset I made walking around dt Champaign a few days ago. Enjoy!
April 1st, 2006 at 11:33 pm
“self-tenure”! Yes! Brilliant!
But it works too well with Condi Rice’s claim proclamation that “Each individual all over the world has the God-given right to express themselves.” Is there a more succinct example of the religious fundamentalism that underlies our ‘defense’ of Enlightenment values? Any one more scary?
Still, I enjoy the idea of academic ronin infiltrating the system from below.
April 21st, 2006 at 4:24 pm
why didn’t you get “The Stack” and take a picture of it?