Connected!

I got my phone, I got my computer, I got my DSL (approximately 4% as fast as in Japan), and I even have a lamp for my computer desk.

What I learned this week: Eichmann in Jerusalem is an amazing book. It is also utterly draining. It's a real page turner, but every once in a while I just have to throw it down and say the word "No" at the walls for a couple of minutes.

In other news, myself and a few of my fellow first-year PhD students have started up a communal blog. I'd intended it to be a kind of social lubricant, a la the Clubhouse, but so far it's mostly been a launching pad for attacks on Brian Leiter. Hilarious attacks.