BORC, special wi-fi outage edition
By Amanda on May 3rd, 2007
- The reason I haven’t been posting very much lately is that Earthlink’s wi-fi
network in my area has been down for over two weeks, and all they’ll tell me
over the phone is "They’re working on it," and that it’ll be fixed in a
few hours or a few days, which it never is. Dear Earthlink: If your
plan is to drive your customers away in droves, you’re succeeding
admirably.
Also, please stop lying to us.
- While I’m writing cranky
open letters: Dear parents who let your children wear those inline shoe-skates and skate around crowded places like SEPTA stations and grocery
stores on busy weekend afternoons: Whatever were you thinking?
- In much less annoying news, I’m writing my History of the Book
paper on Leonard Baskin’s work with the Gehenna Press. Check out Cornell’s online exhibit for an overview.
- I may blog about the research I’m doing for this paper. Other
topics I’ve got on the back burner, if Earthlink gets its act
back together: this report on the "disappearance" of Shakespeare from
English major requirements (of which I’m rather skeptical, to put it
mildly); this article on "niceness" among librarian bloggers; and the return
of the TV-watching classics geek (I’ve just discovered Rome on DVD, and was thrilled to see one of the characters writing out curse tablets).
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Anyone in the area up for the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s production of Falstaff? I’m planning on going either tomorrow night or next Friday, the 11th.
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I would *love* to hear your take on the “niceness” article, which I shall have to pass on to my spec. coll. curator and other librarian friends.
And the Baskin/Hughes project sounds interesting, too. You could, you know, bring it to STS ’08 in Boston…?
And I only wish I were in the market for a Philadelphia Falstaff…
Rome is awesome — you’ve got to love the attention to the details, and seeing the filthy words in the graffiti is wonderful.
ACTA, rather less so. (Lynne Cheney, Irving Kristol, and Bill Bennett? “How Universities Are Failing America?” Pfft.)
As far as opera goes — well, I was going to subtitle my most recent post “For the sole purpose of attempting to make Amanda envious,” but it just didn’t flow. 😉
Jane — yes, I’ll definitely see what I can do with the paper, if it turns out well. It’s still kind of a new field for me, but I’m learning.
Mike — You’re faculty representative for the opera club? I’ve got to get myself a job like that! (Also: the filthy graffiti are one of my favorite things about Rome so far, along with Polly Walker’s and Kevin McKidd’s acting. I keep pausing the DVD to translate and guffaw.)