So for a while there I was a Conservative Reformed Mafia consigliere, and I’m still officially (though not productively, and I’m sorry, linda and Andrew and Joe) a writer over at i wonder as i wander, and now I’m embarking on a new group blog venture. Starting on Monday, I’m going to be posting my [...]
Now that the previous occupant has vacated, and now that we’re back in town from family travels, this morning I’m finally moving several boxes of books into my Emmanuel College office. In a month and a week faculty workshops start, and I’ll be a professor for real. In the meantime, I’m going to keep trying [...]
I don’t normally do advertising on here, but 1and1, the company that hosts this site, is doing a promotion until the end of May (which, I realize, ain’t that far from now), and the rates are really nice.? So if you’ve been thinking about hosting your own site, this might be the time. At any [...]
Well, it was a busy week in several ways.? As you’ve read here, I’ve been teaching like crazy, and beyond that, my Ubuntu 8.10 disk came in the mail, so I installed it on the new laptop, and I’ve never had a faster computer. Between the dropping cost of PC’s and the solid programming in [...]
On my brother’s advice, I went ahead and registered the domain http://www.nathangilmour.com a while ago, and in the intervening time I’ve been putting together a new professional page.? So take a gander if you will, and if you have suggestions for the banner, do give them–I’m no graphic designer, and this fourth iteration of the [...]
I’ve had a good streak of consecutive posting days, but tonight I head into the mountains of West Virginia for six days.? I just don’t think I can get in a post a day there.? So goodbye, streak.
My little site has been averaging more than eighty hits a day for a good week now, and my first impulse, of course, was to congratulate myself for writing such good material.? But a look at the numbers put me in my place–the real source of the new hits has been an influx of people [...]
Some time between my turning the laptop off this morning to get Micah ready for school and my sitting down at Panera to grade a couple papers before going to work at Bogart Library, the site’s hit counter went over ten thousand.? I’m in the five-digit club, it seems. Now I know full well that [...]
I was looking at my site history between papers (halfway there–a solid afternoon tomorrow and a healthy Wednesday, and I should be done), and apparently somebody submitted one of my posts to a Google translator program to read it in Portuguese.? I don’t know why that strikes me as so cool, but it does.? The [...]
I just realized that, if I’m going to hit my goal of at least one post per day in September, I’m not going to be able to lean on Plato readings any more–revision meetings start Monday, which means no new Republic readings.? Bummer…
Not overall (after all, I post neither mp3 files nor gadget news–at least not that much gadget news), but I have now tied for the tenth-most-popular philosophy blog on Facebook.? If you have a Facebook account and like to read here, why not give the link to the left there a quick click? Thank you [...]
I’ve reformatted my CV entirely, cutting it down to two pages in print, so I decided to put the new version here as well. You can get there via the CV tab above. I’ll probably re-hyperlink the thing eventually, but right now it’s plain text again. I also updated the “About” page and changed its [...]
Again, I feel bad for leaving the blog unattended the last few days, but I am happy with the progress I’ve made on the prospectus.? I checked my hit count today and realized that I’d crested 5000 visitors.? I’d like to thank my regular readers and invite anyone else inclined to read to join in. [...]
No long post right now, but I passed my oral exams. I’m ABD! Yes, I have updated my CV.? Click the tab!
Bob Hull’s “Can we Talk?” With my mind consumed with comps this week, I didn’t take the time earlier this week to point my readers (I love both of ya!) to this good little piece by my beloved Greek professor Dr. Hull.? Perhaps it resonates so much because I tried to take on similar concerns [...]
I just now looked at my customer satisfaction surveys teacher evaluations for the spring semester, and other than one review that said my class is boring because all we do is read texts and discuss them (I’m not sure whether that student knew it was an English class), the worst condemnations I got were from [...]
Do I resort to silliness to avoid revising Sunday’s sermon? Yes. I just wanted to point out that on Michial Farmer’s blog (he’s a friend and colleague and overall good dude over in UGA’s English department, and he thinks I sound like a Baptist preacher), I’m not a mere “friend;” I’m among the “letters.” Right [...]
I spent part of this morning wrapped up in a sweatshirt, dreading the next strong breeze, and the other part enjoying the gradually warming day, both down at Fort Yargo State Park, at a picnic table on the lake, reading my heart out for comps. I dusted off three of John Donne’s sermons and a [...]
Why yes, that is an enormous new gas grill. And yes, it is on my deck. Happy Birthday to Daddy! [Update: I should mention that the grill cooks much differently than my brother-in-law's former grill, which served me well through six years of service.? I fear that I overcooked the chicken on my first attempt, [...]
I just got done reading the first essay of The Federalist, and I think I’m going to try to read all eighty-five of them over the next couple months, largely for the sake of better teaching in the future. Whenever I teach Plato I try to point out to my students the influences of the [...]
