I just sent a message to my students telling them to look at Eric's blog. He wrote some things that were quite relevant to the course I'm teaching.

But there's a real risk here. Naturally the more adventurous students in my class will look around on Eric's page for a reference to me. They might start going through the list of "old friends". Eventually, that would lead them here.

Now, this wouldn't be the first time that this site has been discovered by students. It won't be the last. And that's okay -- there's nothing here that will upset anyone in the course (except that one guy; what a loser). On the other hand, I try to keep this site free of contamination from my professional life, and messages like the one I sent out are clear vectors for contamination.

In any case, if you're a student of mine, hello. Welcome to the ever-expanding Thingo family, part of the Thingo network of websites, devoted to bringing you the finest in highly sporadic reporting. Take a moment to study our (hastily assembled) mission statement:

Thingo: it's not just a website, it's a bottomless abyss of despair.

For the rest of you who are desperate for updates to this website, my apologies. My course, combined with an overly enthusiastic commitment to administrative duties in my department this term, has left me with no free time in which to post entries. You can tell that I'm really short on time because I haven't even found a few moments to write an overwhelmingly negative and bleak entry about the bankrupt state of the US "democracy". Well, negotiations are underway with the Thingo writing staff, and we hope to resume normal service starting in early-to-mid December.