Comment Goofiness
Lynne Kiesling We’re having comment goofiness here at KP (and of course the timing couldn’t have been worse), so please be patient. Thanks! UPDATE: Fixed. The KP Spouse absolutely, completely, unequivocally rocks.
Miscellany
Light Posting
Lynne Kiesling Teaching today and Thursday (we’re starting Wealth of Nations today, yay!), running experiments all week, and I have an obnoxious head cold that is interfering with my sleep. Light posting is the likely consequence. Stay warm!
Cell Phone Shushing
Lynne Kiesling Wired has an interesting article today about creative means of cell phone shushing, linking to the SHHH cards that I discussed here in December.
Couple Of New Links
Lynne Kiesling Instead of doing what I should be doing today, I am sidelined with a bug and an almost-migraine that I am trying to keep in its “almost” state. First bad headache in six months. So I’ve done a little housekeeping, including adding two new sites to the link list: Ramble On from Courtney …
Pagans On The Solstice
Lynne Kiesling So last week in Pittsburgh Mike and I went to dinner at the Church Brew Works, a brewpub in a “decommissioned” Catholic church. Good food, good beer, and good company. In the course of our conversation, I joked to Mike about being a pagan, so he emailed me this morning to ask how …
Postrel On David Hackett Fischer
Lynne Kiesling Virginia Postrel reviewed David Hackett Fischer’s new book, Liberty and Freedom, in the New York Times on Sunday (registration required). Her review, nuanced and not particularly favorable, whets my appetite to read it. Fischer is apparently focusing on iconography in this book, and exploring the historic distinction between concepts of liberty and freedom …
Going To My Hometown
Lynne Kiesling As Mike mentioned, we are headed to Pittsburgh next week to participate in an electricity transmission conference at Carnegie-Mellon University. I’m thrilled, in part because the conference looks exciting and in part because I’m from Pittsburgh, and I love goin’ home. Pittsburgh is one of the most fascinating places I can imagine, particularly …
Apologies To Commenters, And A Reminder
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to all of you delightful and wonderful readers who have submitted comments in the past few days. My apologies for being slow in approving them. I was out giving a talk at West Virginia University on Friday, and spent the weekend doing holiday house prep, tree, etc. Of course, if you want …
Trackback Enabled
Lynne Kiesling One nice thing about the MT 3.1 upgrade is that the TrackBack function is much more intuitive and painless. So we’re TrackBackers now here at KP … There is still some goofy stuff with the Java scripting, and it sure looks different depending on the OS and the browser I use. But so …
New Mt Installation
Lynne Kiesling So far, so good on the MT 3.1 installation. MT-Blacklist plugin and import of the blacklist have gone well. The only goofy thing still going on is that the java scripting for the buttons down the left side of the management and posting pages has made the buttons all overlap. But it’s manageable. …