Eileen Daly-Boas

What if… (Jersey Shore installment)

I’ve only seen about 20 minutes of the Jersey Shore. It reminded me of the hours spent getting ready for a night out when I was in college and my roommate was from Long Island. There was a lot of makeup, a lot of drama, and not a lot of intelligent conversation. Those evenings usuallyContinue reading “What if… (Jersey Shore installment)”

One reason my library rocks

A couple of years ago, we got a some new additions to our library: lots of natural light, and movable study spaces. The technical services area moved upstairs to the former Management Library (they get a lot of sun now, too), and bricks were peeled off the facade and replaced with glorious, enormous windows. WithinContinue reading “One reason my library rocks”

Back in the bat-saddle again

It’s been a bit of a blog hiatus. Mostly because being back at work is hard and involves lots of computing and at the end of the day, I don’t want to look at the computer at all. I have bat-news to share! We’re going to have librarian trading cards and we got to chooseContinue reading “Back in the bat-saddle again”

Audio book suggestions?

Thanks to my housemate and her parents, I have a loaner iPod, and they’re letting me download books from Audible.com. I feel incredibly lucky that so many people have gone out of their way for me like this. So far, I’ve listened to “Eat, Pray, Love” (which I liked, even though I’m not sure IContinue reading “Audio book suggestions?”

Impotence, collateral damage and analytic metaphysics

The UR Philosophy department hosted Peter VanInwagen this Friday and his paper was a response to Bas VanFrassen’s criticism of analytic metaphysics. I hadn’t heard the criticism before, but it was critical of analytic philosophers’ methods. According to VanFrassen, the methods are both impotent and wreak collateral damage. Such philosophers introduce technical terms that aren’tContinue reading “Impotence, collateral damage and analytic metaphysics”