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The Politics of Aristotle Translated Into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes and Indices By Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett
The Politics of Aristotle Translated Into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes and Indices By Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett

Modern British Poetry By Louis Untermeyer

There are moments when this plays like a scene from a Wong Kar Wai film. How long until we see something like this used as the opening scene in a movie, complete with melancholy music and a voiceover?

From the fortune cookie that came with dinner this evening:
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
My dad will greatly appreciate this.

Butler and Thomas are clamoring for an update in comments, so here goes:

Things are still falling into place up here in Champaign/Urbana; without even trying too hard, I’ve picked up a half-time graduate assistantship with the department’s User Services group. I would have been fine not getting an assistantship, but I’m perfectly happy with the […]

Classes start tomorrow, and if reality hadn’t completely sunk in yet, it certainly has now: I just dropped $300+ on textbooks for this semester’s classes. Titles include:

Dismantling the Public Sphere : Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy. John E. Buschman.
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction. Richard E. Bopp (Editor), […]

Feeding the birds, Kunming, February 1991, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
Over the course of packing my things up for the move this weekend, I’ve stumbled across tons of old photo prints, many of which have been pretty beat up over time. In the past I’d have just packed them up and put them away, but now […]

Student housing, exterior, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
How much more institutional and utilitarian can you get? This is where I’ll be living the next 2 years while I pursue my MLS at UIUC. It’s a serious step down from both my cute little house — which doesn’t seem that little any more — and my apartment […]

Chinese salad architecture, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
One of the great things about breaking into an entirely new market is that businesses can upgrade or overhaul their brands, freeing themselves of any impressions that may have taken hold where they already have a presence. This is what Pizza Hut did when they moved into China — […]