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This is my little brother George
Feb. 8th, 2006 10:42 pm
High today, here: -7. Dewpoint then: -12. High dewpoint: -12.
High today in TO: -6. Dewpoint then: -13. High dewpoint: -12.
Low today on the balcony: -11.7. High: -6.3. Currently: -11.7.
High yesterday, here: -3. Dewpoint then: -7. High dewpoint: -7.
High yesterday in TO: -2. Dewpoint then: -7. High dewpoint: -7.
Low yesterday on the balcony: -6.4. High: -3.5.
So much for my pretty string of 1's. Bad time for technical difficulties: had lots to say there, about the tragedy of the commons, and the impossibility of conservatism, and re-readings of things about happiness, but now I have to mark things, run in circles, scream and shout, sleep, Greyhound, etc. (Program for upcoming APA-Pacific arrived today; it has a paper with a topic very much like the one I'd mainly been thinking of doing up and submitting for APA-East next week (namely: Sumner is wrong that Aristotle's eudaimonia is not our happiness), which is not such a happy development. But as a result of yesterday's re-readings, there are a bunch of things I might do. Hey, I've got a whole week....)
Well, here's one thing that I've been meaning to get in for the last couple of days at least, that's representative of a lot: last year (or was it two years ago now?), a big new reading room opened at the York library. It's actually an expanded periodicals room; basically, it's the equivalent of the periodicals floor in the WLU library (which I was informed, last night, is "the group study floor", and which is in actual fact the party floor, now that the term is in full swing). Now, the thing about this room is, one of the exciting features drawn to everyone's attention about it when it opened is the sound-damping technologies it incorporates. (I dunno, foam on the walls and suspended ceilings or something.) Think about that: sound-damping technologies, in a library. When it's come to that, you know, it's all over. Which actually speaks further to the myth of the Ivory Tower. There's no place to hide.
A couple of weeks ago I saw, and more to the point heard, a guy walking around in the York library talking on his cellphone on walkie-talkie.
Adelman, in his book on residences, criticizes the traditional placement of libraries and student union buildings as opposite poles of the campus, symbolizing drudgery and recreation: you don't want what you're there for. These days, the library might as well be the student union building. But then, one of the main themes of that book is that the universities were always overrun with hooligans, much worse, sometimes, than they are these days.
High today in TO: -6. Dewpoint then: -13. High dewpoint: -12.
Low today on the balcony: -11.7. High: -6.3. Currently: -11.7.
High yesterday, here: -3. Dewpoint then: -7. High dewpoint: -7.
High yesterday in TO: -2. Dewpoint then: -7. High dewpoint: -7.
Low yesterday on the balcony: -6.4. High: -3.5.
So much for my pretty string of 1's. Bad time for technical difficulties: had lots to say there, about the tragedy of the commons, and the impossibility of conservatism, and re-readings of things about happiness, but now I have to mark things, run in circles, scream and shout, sleep, Greyhound, etc. (Program for upcoming APA-Pacific arrived today; it has a paper with a topic very much like the one I'd mainly been thinking of doing up and submitting for APA-East next week (namely: Sumner is wrong that Aristotle's eudaimonia is not our happiness), which is not such a happy development. But as a result of yesterday's re-readings, there are a bunch of things I might do. Hey, I've got a whole week....)
Well, here's one thing that I've been meaning to get in for the last couple of days at least, that's representative of a lot: last year (or was it two years ago now?), a big new reading room opened at the York library. It's actually an expanded periodicals room; basically, it's the equivalent of the periodicals floor in the WLU library (which I was informed, last night, is "the group study floor", and which is in actual fact the party floor, now that the term is in full swing). Now, the thing about this room is, one of the exciting features drawn to everyone's attention about it when it opened is the sound-damping technologies it incorporates. (I dunno, foam on the walls and suspended ceilings or something.) Think about that: sound-damping technologies, in a library. When it's come to that, you know, it's all over. Which actually speaks further to the myth of the Ivory Tower. There's no place to hide.
A couple of weeks ago I saw, and more to the point heard, a guy walking around in the York library talking on his cellphone on walkie-talkie.
Adelman, in his book on residences, criticizes the traditional placement of libraries and student union buildings as opposite poles of the campus, symbolizing drudgery and recreation: you don't want what you're there for. These days, the library might as well be the student union building. But then, one of the main themes of that book is that the universities were always overrun with hooligans, much worse, sometimes, than they are these days.
