The Stanford PR department brought out a nice little puff piece, complete with youtube video, about the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. For your delectation.

In junior high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I had a shop teacher named Mr Rustemeier. Rusty, as he was known to the grown-ups, but never to the kids, retired at the end of that year from teaching (not because of his frustration with me) and went back to working on an assembly line at one of the auto companies as a skilled ( Read more... )

Still have a head full of Bach this morning. Catching up on new Dreamwidth circle. Just made a big cup of coffee; after I drink it, it will be time for a walk. I used to do some copy editing during my morning coffee, but as things stand at the moment, I would need to VPN into Stanford in order to do that; the VPN client seems to be a little ( Read more... )