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If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the worth of a picture where the y-axis is thousands of words?
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My inclination, I like to think, is to write shorter papers rather than longer ones. Several times in the past, reflecting on this has led me to tabulate my papers by length.
It has become a biennial tradition; cf. 2007, 2009, and 2011. So it is about time for an update.
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Statistics indicate that, before I wrote this, all the blog entries I had written tallied up to 881,485 bytes of data.
Some contemporary file systems wouldn't even allow a file to be that small. The campus network drive seems to be structured so that the minimum file size is 1 megabyte.
However, these blog entries would nearly fill four double-sided Apple ][ floppy disks.
They would fill three-and-a-half boxes of punch cards; cf. Munroe 2013.
By the standards of a bygone age, my output is prolific.
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"Look at this," the Professor says.
He presses a button on his great machine, which begins to sputter and shake. Sparks jump from wire to wire. Two or three colors of smoke come from different parts of it. Something that looks like it might be a capacitor explodes, making you jump.
The professor looks at you expectantly.
"Convinced?" he asks. "You were surprised, but I was not. So we can conclude that your theory was false and mine was true."
Just then, the fire alarm begins, and the sprinklers drench you both.
I was looking through some old files recently. In a folder of documents about the No-Miracles Argument for scientific realism, old notes were tucked in among marked-up photocopies. I found this scribbled item, which might have been written in June 2003.
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My department is making a tenure-track search this year for an early modern historian of philosophy.
It has been several years since our previous search, and several things are different this time around. Jobs for Philosophers has now combined, Voltron-style with another source of job listings to make JFP/PhilJobs. We are going to be doing preliminary interviews via skype rather than in person at the Eastern APA. And I'm the search committee chair this time around.
It is unlikely anyone will read about the job on this blog who would not have seen it on PhilJobs anyway, but I'll take this chance to exhort you to apply if you fit the profile. Albany was not someplace I would have chosen before I got the job here, but it has turned out really well. I enjoy both the department and the city. I recommend both enthusiastically.
Our ad at JFP/PhilJobs
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