Most of the day chipping away on course updates.  Spring II starts
Monday.  Have to switcharound the major project in intro to
humanities.  So I’ll try a research question, annotated bib, and critical
evaluation of one source–a kind of heavy research lurch, like when a train
first moves from stationary, since that’s all an eight week term allows. 
In other words, we aren’t making it far up the tracks. I was looking at Humbul
Hub and one of its links, Blackmask
Online. And then this
trickled through WPA-L, where I lurk fondly.  Started to read it, but then
I had to get lunch.

The kids did have their last practice this morning.  And I messed around
with Mozilla Firefox.  Hell, at this hour, I’m quite a fan of its zippy
front, and the aggreg8 extension is better–so far–than Pluck or Feedster. 
Yeah, still dabbling.  Perpetuity.

Lastly, I noticed fragments bits and orts in the news of late.  Plane
pieces here
and here
(second via Preposterous
Universe who had this
to say about Rumsfeld’s horrible paperweight).  And it’s the first instance
of mishandled parts that I have more trouble understanding than the second
one.  Rumsfeld’s gesture, after all, is a lot like the gross
sentimentalizing and screw-bob keepsakes so many Americans cling to, like pieces
of petrified wood charms from national parks, even though the signposts and good
conscience tell us not to meddle, to touch nothing. But a black box in a file
cabinet?