Logographer

I’ve been distracted with other activities this week, which might explain the scant blog posts. Here are a few things from other blogs to wet your whistle.

• Mark Grimsley’s interest in counterfactual history is on display in his post entitled What If France Had Not Fallen in 1940?
• Dean Dad responds to a reader’s question and provides guidance on teaching a class at a community college in contrast to teaching an upper level class at a university. “[N]othing is too good for the proletariat.”
• Toby Lichtig reviews Tod Wodicka’s novel, Jonathan Cape, which sounds like an odd but interesting book.
• Jonathan thinks there might be something to the claim that modern gadgets and distractions leave us with no time to think. I suppose an intellectual is defined by the propensity to think about thinking.
• Carl Pyrdum at Got Medieval participates in the amusing game of Medieval Wikigroaning. (No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Matt Groening or The Simpsons. Groening doesn’t even sound like groaning.) Maybe I’ll play along later, when I feel like exerting myself.
• And even though it’s summertime and school isn’t in session, Dennis at CAMPVS MAWRTIVS is compelled to delve into historiography, making a few comments about Jacob Burckhardt, a name that reminds me of my mentor, which in turn reminds me that summertime is nearly over and I really should be thinking about my thesis more often, if not about historiography per se.

That’s it for now.