Feed Reading

I read way too many feeds in a given day.  I need to narrow it down, but it’s a tough chore because I have so many varied interests.

Letting them pile up over the weekend resulted in over 2k new entries that I had to plow through rather quickly without much concentration.

Hmm… I need to outsource my feed reading…

Asia Has Claims Upon New England on Amazon.com

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The book on Assyriology and 19th Century American reception I wrote while at Yale has been up on Amazon.com for a while (you can also order it from the Yale Art Gallery site).

However, I was checking up on how it was doing at Amazon and there’s a re-seller who’s listing it for close to $30.  Wow!

If you need a copy, I’ve got a couple left and I’ll gladly send your way.  I would make it an eBook and post it here, but Yale Art Gallery owns the right and it probably would not be kosher to post it up without violating all sorts of copyrights.

I’ll know better next time I publish and make sure to have the ability to post it up here.

Too Tough To Tame: Darlington Race ’07

Dad, my best friend and uber-lawyer Jon Williams and I went to the Darlington Raceway this weekend for the Busch Race and NASCAR Nextel Cup races.

Sadly, the Nextel Cup race was called last night around 8:30 and rescheduled for this afternoon.  So, I had to head back to Asheville today and missed the race.  However, we had a great time at the Busch race on Friday night. We cooked out before the race and hung around my campsite for a while afterwards.  I camped out at the track on Friday night and was literally carried away by fire ants.  I’m itchy now.

Here are some shots of the Busch race from Jon’s Flickr stream

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The Nextel Cup race went well today for my driver, Ryan Newman.  He finished 4th, so I was pretty excited and hated missing the race.

It’s sad that Darlington only has one race a year since the races there are always so much better than the cookie-cutter tracks that predominate the circuit these days.

Thanks, Jon and Dad!

IM with Mom

It’s interesting that since I’ve hooked my mom up to GMail, we’re in a lot more communication these days via the GTalk instant messaging client within GMail.  I keep GTalk running under my Jabber account within Pidgin, so it’s kinda like an always on mom. 

Thanks, interwebs.

300

CostPerNews jumped the big 300 mark this morning (finally!).

I wish I felt like blogging there more.

I want to move everything here, but that would be a huge pain in the ass.  Hmm… what to do, what to do.

Semester and Grades Are Done

Wow.

What a crazy semester of teaching, blogging, managing programs, consulting, fixing up a house and becoming a soon-to-be dad.

Anyway, one of those is now struck from the list as the semster is over for my Religious Studies 101 class.  All the grades are turned in, all the emails are answered and all the papers are read.  It’s amazing how quickly some things end, especially when you think you have so much invested in them.

Anti-climactic.

You can relive our semester at www.harrelsonreligion.com.  We had a good time, and went out Beatles style with a half played note at the end of Her Majesty.