Well, it's just past midnight here in Vancouver and Day One of HSS is winding down. Janet, John, David and I spent a pleasant evening at a French restaurant enjoying good food and discussion of everything from the state of pre-college education, programming languages, and why philosophy of biology may not appeal to biologists. In other words, we geeked out. All good stuff, trust me.
Oh, and it started raining again! No surprises.
Tomorrowing morning I'm up early for the ISHPSSB Education Committee who are meeting about sessions for the upcoming Exeter meeting (July '07). So I'd better get to bed ...
- Log in to post comments
More like this
It the first morning of the HSS meeting here in Vancouver and as usual I spent yesterday evening reconnecting with people. Highlight was, of course, meeting Janet, John, David and Ben for cocktails. There will be pictures, I promise you.
My morning is full - indeed I have to head to a session on…
Nominee #1: Karl Iagnemma
Nominee #2: Chris Ware
Well, it was great to finally meet Ben (and Janet, John, John, and Steve) a couple weeks ago, when there was a PSA/HSS/4S conference in Vancouver. Ben and I had a chance to talk about science, writing, academia, the election, life, unicorns, the…
I started out thinking I was writing this as an open letter to my students, but it turns out I'm talking to you all, too.
* * * * *
I have very strong feelings about what the point of a college education should be. Maybe you do, too. It's entirely possible that we would disagree about this issue,…
I'm on my annual summer hiatus for the month of July so I'll be only publishing my weekly Friday Fun posts as well as re-posting some of the interviews I did a few years ago on the old blog with people from the publishing, library and science worlds. Not that my posting of late has been…