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Restuck in time

Monday, May 31, 2010 - 10:30 pm - My parents joke that when I was born in the summer of 1980, I joined my childhood already ten or fifteen years in progress. Like everything really funny, there is a lot of truth to it. In elementary school, for example, I listened to Billy Joel instead of New Kids on the Block and my [...]

The fat thing

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 2:58 am - My roommate my freshman year of college once told me, “You’re a bigger girl, but it works for you.” I recall that at the time, I was pretty crushed. She fretted when clothes ran small and a size 2 wouldn’t fit, once semi-bragged that she never allowed herself to eat more than 15 grams of [...]

In defense of ?America?

Sunday, March 22, 2009 - 2:24 pm - Orwell was a patriot, a patriot in the sense that he was able to identify things as characteristically “English” which he admired and felt a sense, however intangible, of personal pride in being associated with them. At the same time, he was very open in public and in private about his fierce opposition to British [...]

A belated answer

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 11:22 pm - Part of the hiring process in the English Department at UMB is going out to lunch with a group of students so they can check you out and pass along their impressions to the faculty. Yesterday, I was one of these student representatives, and the complimentary buffet isn’t the only thing I’ve chewing on since. [...]

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D is for Discovery

August 4, 2008

Discovering a great website is a small but very real delight. Yesterday, thanks to StumbleUpon, I found a site called POW!, which in turn led me to Liam’s Pictures from Old Books, where I found the wonderful ornamented D that begins this paragraph. The site offers illustrations of all types, including old maps, sample alphabets, technical illustrations ranging from 19th century “marine lighting” to medieval “siege engines.”

We have some old books ourselves, so I’ll make a few scans and send them to Liam. If you’re interested in old books, you might want to do the same.

The POW! site, by the way, contains links to free and cheap stock photos of all kinds. Enjoy.

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3 Responses to “D is for Discovery”

  1. Mike Nichols Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Thanks! Very useful sites, especially Liam’s.

  2. Cowtown Pattie Says:
    August 7, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    Cool beans, Pete! Thanks for sharing. Gives me scads of ideas…

  3. Liam Quin Says:
    August 8, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Thanks for the review! I’m glad you liked it.

    Please do contact me directly (liam at holoweb dot net) before sending scans! I love to receive them and put them online, but have to make sure they’re scanned well and that the books are out of copyright first.

    Thanks again! Delighted to see the initial capital being used, too :-)

    Liam

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