Checking out alternative chili recipes we found a recipe calling for a chayote. Not knowing what it was, I went to wikipedia. The entry may have the best opening line of any wikipedia entry I’ve found: The chayote (Sechium edule), also known as sayote, tayota, choko, chocho, chow-chow, christophine or merliton, is an edible plant …
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is right here. As winter break moves gently in my direction, I hope to install a year-end, Project Censored Top-5 or Top-10 stories I wished I’d blogged about at the time for 2008. In the meantime, it’s 1-liners. I’ve got defences to prep and meetings to attend and a football game to return to.
Tenured Radical is also in the academic advice business, and has a wonderful post on applying for a job when you already have one. I started writing a comment and it got so long, I thought I’d just post it here. WHY NOT TO USE LETTERHEAD. I actually don’t think people should use their current …
This NYTimes story on vinyl has been making the rounds on various music boards since it came out Sunday. Many of the old writers lament that vinyl has been “relegated” to the Style section of the newspaper. Me, I just sigh every time the old myths are trotted out. [Vinyl] virtually collapsed in the late …
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on what should be a beautiful 30 degree day (that’s 87, American readers). I hope they’ve fixed the A/C in my seminar room. Apart from that little worry, I am feeling the usual beginning-of-the-year optimism. Perhaps it’s tempered a little bit by the knowledge of the administration that lies in wait for fall, but I …
I see that I’ve been neglecting this feature of the blog. Here’s a catch-up post starting with something hot off the internet: Jonathan Sterne, Jeremy Morris, Michael Brendan Baker and Ariana Moscote Freire, “The Politics of Podcasting.” In “After Convergence, What Connects?” a special issue of Fibreculture edited by Caroline Bassett, Maren Hartmann and Kate …
