When I was a child… An interesting acknowledgement of scholarly immaturity in Ogilvie’s Books known the the English

Posted: July 25, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Leave a comment »

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Cor. 13:11)

I just bought a copy of J.D.A. Ogilvy’s Books Known to the English, 597-1066. Well actually not just “a” copy: the fly paper tells me it used to belong to R.H. Rouse, the famous UCLA historian and part of the great team with M. Read the rest of this entry »

Using multiple signatures in Microsoft Outlook OWA (Web version)

Posted: July 6, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

Different Strokes for Different Folks

Like many academics, I have a number of different positions on campus, nationally, and internationally.

I am a professor in my department, an Associate Member of another department on campus, and of the graduate school and various institutes at Lethbridge and elsewhere, Principal Investigator of a couple of projects, editor of one journal, associate editor of another, and Vice President and Chief Spokesperson for my faculty union. If you’ve seen signatures of other professors, you’ll know that this is not a particularly lengthy list.

Not all of these positions are independent of each other. Read the rest of this entry »