Great! I'm glad you're all here for our annual Professionally Facilitated Visioning Exercise for the university. As you know from the updated Envisioning Our Future packets you received this morning, our question for the afternoon will be "Where Do You See Yourself in Eight Hours?"
Connecting to a repo that is giving the warning, "connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm." Love this. Whatever the next thing is, we need to call it "post-quantum." "I'm undertaking a post-quantum analysis of Dickens." "My work is situated firmly within post-quantumism."
But then when someone says "Anyone else think it's too cold in here?" they're immediately fired.
It's hard to avoid that conclusion. But when you see the famous scene with Alex's eyes propped open in *A Clockwork Orange*, you're supposed to think this is bad (not an interesting idea for a product).
How is it that people see something obviously dystopian and say, "Just what I need! Where do I sign!"
You know how when the title of an article on the web ends in a question mark the answer is “no?” There’s some version of this for articles declaring things to be over.
Happy to answer any questions about these panels. We hope to see you LA next year!
"We invite contributions from literature, cultural studies, linguistics and cognitive science to an interdisciplinary panel on surprise as a cognitive-affective mechanism of interpretation. Send a 250-word paper abstract and a 100-word bio to co-organizers." Details: mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...
But wait! There's more. We are also co-sponsoring a panel with our colleagues in Cognitive and Affect Studies entitled "Elements of Surprise."
Papers could examine the linguistics and/or style of trauma in literature/film, or the literariness of trauma as it shows up in real life data. If you're interested, please submit a 200-word abstract and a brief bio to my colleague Roshawnda Derrick (Pepperdine University). Details at:
I have the honor of being the Chair of the MLA Forum on Linguistics and Literature. This year, we are sponsoring a panel entitled, "The Language of Trauma" at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. #MLA #Linguistics
“Characters came and went, costumes were changed,
my brush hand moved side to side
far from the canvas,
side to side, like a windshield wiper.
Surely this was the desert, the dark night.”
That transition is glorious.
I love that poem. And Glück in general.
You are very kind. I will happily follow anyone who uses lines from Louise Glück as their profile.
This is marvelous.
Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities
Coming this August! Have me come tell your students that everyone is a digital humanist now, in an age of pervasive digital mediation -- happy to bring free copies
Right where everyone who has successfully completed a thesis has been. It's not you; it's the genre. When you get to the end, you'll say, "Oh, *that's* how you write this kind of thing!" You got this. Really.
Yeah, I mean, as someone who regularly uses autoconf, I should probably simmer on down a notch. Same story there. Lol
How does anyone work in Python with this virtual environment nonsense? I remember when Python was new. "Batteries Included!" Uh huh. Today: We give you the batteries. You're on your own with the single-use hex wrenches. And the instructions are in Linear A. Also requries knowledge of darke magick.
Sorry, I hadn’t read the comments!
You means *schmaltz*? (שמאַלץ) One of my favorite cooking terms!
Had a similar experience with a mountain lion a couple of years ago, and decided that I was okay with never beholding its fearful symmetry again.
With this system, I'll soon make a fortune: then I'll kill everyone in the world and go away.
PÈRE UBU: That may well be so, but I've changed the
government and I've had it announced in the official gazette that all the present taxes have to be paid twice over, and all those I may think up later will have to be paid three times over.
Everyone is reading *On Tyranny* and *1984*, but the text that speaks to our time is really Alfred Jarry's 1896 masterpiece *Ubu Roi.*
STANISLAS: Sire, we are down on the register for only one hundred and fifty-two fix-dollars, which we've already paid over six weeks ago come Michaelmas.
I'm going to teach Go this semester. Why not a dynamically typed language like Ruby or Python? Mainly because, in my experience, the answer to 90% of all the questions beginning programmers ask is some version of "What type is that?" Go might have just the right amount of type discipline.
Yes! I swear, I have no relationship to the company that makes that knife. But nothing comes close.
Hi folks. I'll be speaking at #MLA2026! It is session 438, The Humanities Funding Landscape, Saturday at 10:15AM in MTCC - 606. Come learn about our humanities programs @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. I'll also be talking a bit about my last (sad) days at the NEH. Grab me if you wanna chat!
Okay, it's not easy at all. But the result of all of this madness is that "Where's the good knife?" is no longer a question in my household. They are all sublimely beautiful. And extremely dangerous.
But it's easy! You just have get the angle right. And the pressure. And various precise motions. Pay attention to your legs; try to let the force of the pull stroke originate in your feet. Progress through several stone grits. And oil the blade and handles with camelia oil as the Samurai once did.