Dear CBC Daybreak, Please do not call my home at 7:15am looking for other McGill professors. They do not live here. Most professors have their own homes and do not reside in communes. Also, we are/were asleep. Thank you. –Jonathan (for J&C)
Category Archives: Caveat User
AAA, WTF?
The American Anthropological Association meets next fall in Montreal. I’m excited to see some friends, and when some colleagues asked me to be on a panel, I agreed. Little did I know that the paper submission process involved a money grab by AAA, and that their conference registration system has no provision for participation from …
Incredible
It’s hardcore recommendation season and I’ve been spending a little time each afternoon working on a recommendation as I line up the templates for the year (or send out the fellowship recs, which are usually due first). Today was my first attempt to engage with SSHRC’s new online interface. They have, happily, trashed the ludicrous …
Root Canal Review
Oddly, I started this post in spring of 2008 and it has sat in my drafts folder for a year, but now I feel compelled to complete it. Don’t want to read about teeth? There are two awesome comments under the gentrification post. Spring 2008 Part A root canal procedure is not how I’d recommend …
When good software goes bad
Somewhere in these pages I have extolled the virtues of Entourage as an email client. I used to be a devotee of Eudora, but I switched over to allow Entourage to interface more fully with McGill’s exchange server. Plus, I liked how it integrated email, calendar and address book. But today, somehow, my “database” got …
A Canadian DMCA
The Conservative government cleverly tabled Bill C-61 shortly after a massive and public apology to First Nations people over the horrific school system that attempted to forcibly assimilate generations of First Nations people. The press focused on the First Nations apology, as it should have. Canada’s history on matters of race is not pretty, and …
A Small Town With an Embassy Row
Earlier this week was the annual Weinstein lecture, and so members of my family converged on Washington DC. As is our wont, Carrie and I took advantage of the opportunity to go book shopping and found ourselves at Kramerbooks. After selecting a nice pile of reading, we decided the best plan of action would be …