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February 3, 2010 by cptwitter
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-03
The digest function of Twitter Tools apparently decided to work on this blog on the 1-year anniversary of Obama's inauguration. # Will it work today on the eve of the Apple announcement. Probably not: I'm having a hideous tech day, about which more soon on the blog. # Off to Abu Dhabi. More news in [...]Archive
February 2, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Reframing American Literature I
Last year, on the eve of my lecture about Anne Hutchinson and Mary Rowlandson, I wrote a post over at PWHNY speculating about how I might change my American Literature I syllabus when I taught it in the spring of 2010: It might be time to reframe the course. Rather than teaching The Puritan Origins [...]Archive
January 28, 2010 by cptwitter
Twitter Updates for 2010-01-28
The digest function of Twitter Tools apparently decided to work on this blog on the 1-year anniversary of Obama's inauguration. # Will it work today on the eve of the Apple announcement. Probably not: I'm having a hideous tech day, about which more soon on the blog. # Off to Abu Dhabi. More news in [...]Archive
January 19, 2010 by Cyrus Patell
Massachusetts Meatheads
The AP has just called the special Massachusetts senate election for Republcan Scott Brown. Teddy Kennedy’s seat will be occupied by a Republican who will make it his personal mission to scuttle the healthcare initiative. Today I’ve found myself thinking about my years in the Boston-Cambridge area. Back in the day, we used to go [...]Archive
February 1, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
Gigacool
So here’s a place where two of my interests — technology and politics — come together: David Bergman’s Gigapan image of President Obama’s inaugural address. It’s a 1.47 gigapixel shot — yes, that’s gigapixel not megapixel — created using Gigapan’s Epic photo mount, which enables you to shoot a series of multiple overlapping pictures that [...]Archive
January 31, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
Is Ahab, Ahab?
One of the questions that arises in the course of Melville’s Moby-Dick is whether Ahab’s name is significant. It’s not just a matter of literary symbolism, in which the author is sending a signal to the knowing reader that the the reader might glean something about the character from the name. That’s standard practice in [...]Archive
January 22, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
The Company He’s Keeping
Barack Obama has patterned himself after some of our most revered Presidents. During the campaign he invited comparison to another Illinois politician who began his career in the state legislature, Abraham Lincoln, and it’s been widely reported that he’s been influenced by Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s account of Lincoln’s cabinet. Because of his [...]Archive
January 20, 2009 by Cyrus Patell
Setting Aside Childish Things
INAUGURATION DAY 2009 At the words “And so help me God,” we popped the bottle of Mumms. I’m saving the cork. “We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; [...]Archive
November 5, 2008 by Cyrus Patell
