My computer is back up and running. I was considerably nervous about formatting the drive and installing the operating system myself, so I asked Scott for help. Bad idea. For the next hour and a half I had to endure the continual mockery of Scott and Philip for not being able to do basic computer maintainance tasks myself and of Philip for having a computer that needed to be overhauled, viz. a PC and not a Mac. Turns out that I could have done it myself. But the computer is working much faster; every task takes a third to a quarter of the time that it used to. Now I just need to set all my preferences right.
Thank you, all those who sent get-well cards and flowers.
My computer has mono. It is very sick and very tired. I’m backing everything up that I can think of, collecting my installation media, and planning to wipe everything and start from scratch. I hope that this short trip to the hospital is not the prelude to a trip to the morgue.
Until further notice, I will be in an undisclosed location.
This weblog has received 41 spam comments in the past day. Thankfully, WordPress has blocked all of them. I’ve changed my security options so that anyone commenting must have a previously approved comment. If you comment, it might take some time for me to approve it and get all the kinks worked out of the spam protection, so please be patient.
On the topic of commenting, the posts about Scott have been by far the most popular. So coming tomorrow: “The Continuing Adventures of Scott and Lincoln.”
Since my last academic post, I’ve written two more précises for Ancient through Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. The first is an comparison of Plato’s and Gorgias’s epistemology in Plato’s “Gorgias”; the second is an criticism of Aristotle’s theory of ethos.
“Rhetorical Theory as a Product of Epistemology in Plato’s ‘Gorgias’”
“The Most Effective Means of Persuasionâ€
My friend John Gadbois, who was on the Vintage staff with me for two years, is now in France teaching English and attending graduate school. You can read his new blog: À Limoges.
Tonight, after Scott realized that his coupon for a free cup of coffee with the purchase of a doughnut or pastry from the Snack Shop was going to expire tonight, Scott and I jumped up and ran to the Snack Shop. Scott got a coffee and a doughnut; I got a small ice cream cone; neither of us got a date. Unfortunately, this Saturday’s excursion was no more successful than last week’s. And Scott didn’t like his coffee, because it was French.
Note: This post, unlike last Saturday’s post, has been approved by the Anti-Defamation of Scott Culler League.
