Epistemographer

One of the many things preying on my mind these days is housing – which neighborhood in DC to live in, how much to pay in rent, and the big question on everyone’s minds these days, to rent or to buy?
Looks like I’m not the only one – several of my favorite post-academics have been [...]

So, I’m apparently a bit behind the curve here (or maybe I just ought to stop reading political blogs compulsively and add some more techie ones to my daily circuit)…seems that the eagerly-anticipated Movable Type 3.0 is out, at least in a Developer version. Meanwhile, all hell has broken loose over the licensing structure (just [...]

A few weeks ago, I found out that my cousin Josh had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had a seizure one day at dinner and was rushed to a hospital, where the ER docs found nothing visibly wrong. A followup visit with his primary care physician led to an MRI, however, which turned [...]

So, I returned most of my checked-out books to the Cornell library last week.
For those of you who haven’t written a dissertation, I can’t really explain how big a deal this is: some of these books have sat on my shelves for upwards of three years, thanks to Cornell’s six-month checkout term for graduate students [...]

As I’ve written before, I’ve been rather deliberately avoiding writing about many of the biggest things occupying my mind over the past few months. Finally, however, I’m at a point where I can start thinking out loud again: the semester’s drawing to a close, my travel plans for the summer are set, and my dissertation [...]