Carin Ruff

Not reproduced above: all the pre-computer advice about writing in pencil, to practice for when you are in actual MS reading rooms, and about numbering the lines of the original on the xerox you're working from.

I looked up advice on transcription from old teachers, to the extent I managed to scan it and save it on my computer. I believe this handout comes from Frank Mantello, which means it reflects Fr. Boyle's teaching. (Won't attempt to ALT the contents, please forgive.)

Sermon on the sea-mount: the fascinating history of fishy sea pulpits The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across central Europe. We’ve caught several in our net

Moby-Dick shipmates, check out these sea pulpits! 🐋

You can see me there looking intently at all your applications!

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Very Upper NW DC sitrep, too.

Yes, and presumably H and M are hour and minute.

What better day to welcome the Bury Psalter back to the Abbey of St Edmund site than #WorldBookDay! Join us at 5.30pm this evening, Thursday 5 March, for a special Evensong where we will formally receive the Bury Psalter. Everyone is welcome.

Public relations grandparents, from a LIFE feature on working women featuring my grandmother, ca. 1947, and my dad having none of it. Those are programs from the Met's 1946-47 season on the table in front of her.

My grandfather worked for Herman Miller and bequeathed us some great furniture.

She worked at the Met in the '40s, pre-Bing, and then represented Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Maternal grandmother was a high school English teacher, a job she took to help pay for my mom's college (where mom met dad). Paternal grandmother (the least grandmotherly woman you ever met) was, like grandfather to whom she was briefly married, in PR, w/the more distinguished career of the two. +

some units were formed and trained in the '20s and '30s. My mother remembers, "He told me about lining up on horseback at an intersection when the President came to Philly, saluting as he was driven by, and then galloping down back streets to line up at another intersection farther along the route."

He did, however, serve in a cavalry unit between the wars. Apparently this was a thing: there was some feeling that the American cavalry should have been better trained for WWI and though there was a lot more and better informed feeling that cavalry was obsolete, +

PR exec grandfather served and was wounded in WWII. Pennsylvania grandfather did not; his is the side of the family from which I get my flat feet.

This painting-on-rock situation is wild.

One was, intermittently and not successfully, an insurance salesman in rural Pennsylvania. The other was a PR exec in NYC. And thereby hangs a tale of my parents' respective familes.

John P. O’Connell’s 1932 “Grammatical Explanations for Typographical Apprentices, stresses that “the shirkers are going to reap the harvest of their negligence and arrogance.”

I'm sure I'll end up teaching it online again sometime soon, at which point it can be taken from anywhere.

I have that in the queue too!

(Thank you to all of you who encouraged me to spring for Acorn.)

YouTube video by HistoryMarvelous Xerox Monk commercial 1977

And I always start with this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=faH1...

The detective-comes-back-to-small-city-where-everyone-knows-each-other's-business-on-an-island-with-scenery-and-accents vibe feels very Shetland, but a lot sunnier. And no one is shouting.

Screenshot of an office interior from A Remarkable Place to Die: green upper walls, blue lower cabinets, warm wood paneling, reeded glass partition, and a monitor with POLICE on it and a desk lamp in the foreground. Oh, and a guy in sweater coming towards us.

TV report: having given up on How to Get to Heaven from Belfast as not at all my vibe, I've started watching the New Zealand mystery series A Remarkable Place to Die on Acorn. Stunning landscapes and the best-looking police HQ offices I've ever seen. And New Zealand accents, of course.

Mood.

The next in HMML's great series of talks.

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Just try it: 'Primitus pantorum procerum praetorumque pio potissimum paternoque praesertim privilegio panagerieum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgantes'
(British Library, Cotton ms Domitian A IX)

I'm only just a bit annoyed they can't make one as light and svelte as my 20-teens 12" MacBook.

My elderly mom needs a new MacBook and I've been waiting for this for her. Looks promising, to the extent she can cope with any system change.

I also just stumbled across a term for a whole area of study adjacent to mine that I'd never heard of from within medieval studies. More to read! (I'll post about that in a bit, after I get my teaching ducks in a row and have a chance to figure out what I want to ask the People of the Skies.)

later in the course, of course, when we hit the Industrial Revolution.