February 2005

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• univerCity

  Just Illin’

  02.28.05 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I had a nice post planned about what I have been doing for the past 6 months which culminated on saturday.
  but.
  i am a sick, sick, sick man.
  so, hang on tight, gentle readers. I will be back.
  ps. farangi can chime in with an entry anytime. that slacker. feel free to bash him in the comments.

• univerCity

  Open Letter to Bunim-Murray

  02.25.05 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Women+Islam is hot, she said. If those were your keywords, then you would be getting job talks all over the place. Yeah!? Well, who in heck decides what is hot? I retorted. Is it a dark room filled with greying sanskritists flashing one word cards for responses? Globalization. Flash. Terrorism. Flash. Muslim Historiography in India. [...]

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  History Carnivals

  02.25.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been horribly remiss in not pointing out to my readers the History Carnivals: #1, #2, and now, #3. Erroneously, I assume that everyone reads the same blogs I do and, hence, knows all these bits. What a dunce I am.
  If you like this sort of stuff, and I have been accused of over-indulgence [...]

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  Word of the Day: Islamist

  02.23.05 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  I don’t like the word Islamist - not one bit. Today, I would like to take a skewed opinion poll from my lagging readership. What do you think about that word? In a headline today, NYT writes, “Shiites in Iraq Back Islamist to Be Premier”.
  Islamist is referenced in the very first sentence: ” Ibrahim [...]

• wizbango! tech

  Kottke Goes Pro

  02.22.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have been reading kottke for a long time and always liked him esp. the tone and cadence of his writing. Today, he declared that he is going pro: “blogging for blogging’s sake”. He has quit his job and will attempt to write the blog only for a year. I, for one, am psyched for [...]

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  Eulogy for Thompson

  02.21.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  [Sepoy notes: Gentle Readers, my good friend farangi shares his thoughts about HST. If HST lives on in anyone's soul - I point squarely to farangi and his upcoming saga of rocking in Jerusalem.]
  Rumor holds that Hunter Thompson has been temporarily dead several times already; each round of scuttlebutt credited those lapses into the hereafter [...]