[gallery] Léonard Misonne, Sur la glace, 1908
Léonard Misonne, Trees, 1923
For many years now — around thirty (!) — the Melodians have provided my go-to music for grading. It’s impossible to be sad or frustrated when listening to the Melodians. Students whose papers are graded while I was listening to these guys probably get a full-letter-grade boost.
[gallery] houghtonlib:
Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514. Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle], 1493.Houghton Library, Harvard University
For the iPad to become just as good as the iPhone, it would need to be smaller, equipped with a better camera, and sold with carrier subsidies and mobile data plans. But this would turn it into “just a big iPhone.” So this can’t be iPad’s future.For the iPad to become just as good as the Mac, it would need to be larger, faster, equipped with expansion ports, and powered by software that supports legacy features like windowed applications and an exposed file system. But this would turn the iPad into a Macbook Pro with a touch screen and a detachable keyboard. This can’t be iPad’s future, either.
I think the future of the iPad is for it to disappear, absorbed at the low end by iPhones with large displays and at the high end by Macs running a more iOS-like flavor of OS X. Perhaps it won’t disappear completely. After all, for certain niche uses – especially those listed above – the iPad is great because it’s neither a phone nor a PC. But these are still niche uses and can’t possibly sustain the long, bountiful future that many hope the iPad has.
[gallery] houghtonlib:
Eluard, Paul, 1895-1952. Répétitions / Paul Eluard; dessins de Max Ernst, 1922.Houghton Library, Harvard University
Items from an End-of-Year Report
Books I’ve taught this academic year that I’d never taught before:
- Gundjevic and Zizek, God in Pain
- Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
- selections from the Thousand Nights and a Night
- Thomas Aquinas, selections from the Summa Theologiae
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
- Erasmus, Praise of Folly
- Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
It’s been a very full year.
[gallery] huntingtonlibrary:
huntingtonlibrary:Of all of the spaces in the Library’s conservation lab, the “dirty room” is perhaps the most mysterious. In it you will find belt grinders with various grits of sandpaper, diamond stones, large tiles of marble, all manner of abrasive material, and many other esoteric tools that would be at home in fine woodworking shops. “What,” you might ask, “is this odd collection of equipment doing in a conservation lab?” Rest assured that these items aren’t for nefarious purposes but rather for the day-to-day maintenance of our knives.Continue reading “Knife to the Grindtone,” a new blog post on VERSO from one of our book & paper conservators.
