http://blog.katharinebeutner.com Katharine Beutner's blog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:12:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm sitting in a coffeeshop in downtown Santa Cruz, waiting out the day until my evening flight back to Austin after attending the Dickens Universe on the Santa Cruz campus. My university sends two students every year, and the professor who accompanied us has been going for more than twenty ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/08/03/the-end-of-the-universe/ Repetitive things usually annoy me: repetitive motions like finger-tapping, repetitive sounds, even spoken choruses in songs when the rhythm of speech fights the beat. (That's not repetitive, exactly, I guess, but it bothers me in the same way.) One of the things I thought was most charming about WALL-E, though, ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/07/12/on-little-gestures/ From the preface to "The Female Wits," a 1696 play anonymously published in 1704, satirizing Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, and Catherine Trotter. The (also anonymous) writer of the preface describes Trotter and Pix as: ... two Gentlewomen that have made no small Struggle in the World to get into Print; and ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/07/08/such-a-state-of-wedlock/ You can also find me on Twitter now, far more frequently than here. Turns out that prospectus-brain can easily manage tiny "what are you doing?" posts. Prospectus-brain can also handle: fussing with new Wordpress installations for the digital humanities project update blog (link soon!); googling gluten-free places to eat in ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/07/05/oh-and/ I tend to link nice things I find on the internet at del.icio.us rather than posting about them here, but today I'll do both. This is a wonderful article about CocoRosie, who make fey, strange, compelling music (and seem, based on the article, to be fey, strange, compelling people). http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/07/05/ill-always-be-by-your-side/ View from Hobart Bluff Originally uploaded by Katharine B. Grizzly Peak was still closed by snow when we went to Oregon earlier this month, so we hiked at Hobart Bluff instead. It's not as beautiful a hike as Grizzly, but the view was all right. It was about forty degrees on the ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/06/04/view-from-hobart-bluff/ It turns out that if one forgets to update one's Wordpress installation, saucy little link-farmers running exploit scripts will look upon one's mostly-dormant blog as fertile ground. I've just gone back and peeled hidden links out of half my old posts. Feh. (If you read this blog via RSS, you ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/04/19/well-i-never/ Saki Originally uploaded by Katharine B. Une nouvelle chatte chez nous! She is delightfully funny and weird and precious. Before us, she lived in a house where she hid a lot, and she's, er, enjoying her freedom; it's kind of like living with a tiny Rosencrantz, who's always discovering some law of ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/03/16/sometimes-you-have-to-cat-blog/ Another semester, another long stretch of blog silence. I haven't got much to say or much time to say it in; this year is one of those strange larval periods, I guess, for my academic work and my writing and my family life. Editors are reading a novel I wrote, ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2008/01/21/holding-places/ After an exciting discovery -- namely, that my five-year-old PowerBook Titanium was giving me a small but constant electric shock -- I've left the Mac world for Linux, at least for now. I'm typing this on my new Ubuntu-running desktop, which T. built for me last week. It took me ... http://blog.katharinebeutner.com/2007/11/03/une-chatte-commercante/