Category Archives: silliness

Facilities Management has a sense of humor

Posted on July 26, 2007 by jbj

Yesterday, the following message went out to departments located in a campus building: Toilet partitions will be replaced in the second and third floor bathrooms of . . .  Hall.  The third floor restrooms will be closed tomorrow and the … Continue reading →

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Weird things that are sort of Victorian

Posted on July 24, 2007 by jbj

These three things are all related to Victorian literature and culture, and are very, very strange. “Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver.” When it’s installed at a gallery, museum patrons or internet users can make a dead frog jerk … Continue reading →

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A book that could have changed my life . . .

Posted on July 11, 2007 by jbj

. . . if only it had been around when I was an undergrad: Christopher A. Faraone, Ancient Greek Love Magic (Harvard UP, 1999) If, at 19, I’d known the classics were so awesome . . . I’d probably be … Continue reading →

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