Paul Ford is soooo right. After lunch, I sit down to write a test for
my first year phil students and need to check one little fact, look in
google and get distracted by all the side bars even before I've checked
the fact, try to keep my mission in mind while opening new things in
tabs (for later, don't you know), get sucked down some primrose path,
shot out at some rabbit hole, chase after a witty turn of phrase, find a
quotation which I have to add to one of my online quotation databases,
follow my nose to further quotations by the same person, hunt the person
down in wikipedia and suddenly hear a faint voice from my real life
calling me to dinner. The next morning I sit down to work on a test for
my first years.
Ursula
sort of thanking Eric for another rabbit hole...
Eric Yost wrote:
It's not a new Jonathan Franzen novel, but the subject of an online essay by Paul Ford.
http://ftrain.com/Followup.html
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