I wrote recently about a case of bestiality brought against poor, unfortunate Geronimo Berveran, a 15 year old kid accused having sex with an unbroken mare (yegua). Luckily for both of them, their case was overturned on appeal and the horse was spared being killed. Turns out that had that mare actually caught young...
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I’ve been struggling recently with how I want to encode the transcriptions of the very many digital facsimiles of my documents. I decided even before I wanted to construct a digital project with my current work that I wanted to move away from rtf,...
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Over the course of the past year, I’ve been developing my second project with an eye towards digital curation. The project will analyze the roll of state surveillance of sexuality in the modernization of Spain’s Empire under the Bourbon King Carlos III. I’ve been...
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Whenever I’ve heard the question, what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, responses inevitably cluster around some specific form of cognitive capacity: tool-making and using, abstract thought, that ability to transcend temporality, emotional experience, language, moral culpability, the ability to transcend...
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WordPress 3.0 was officially released for download today. I’ve written recently about my experiences playing around with the beta and rc releases over the past month or so. WP 3.0 really is a major upgrade filled all kinds of new — or at least...
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Summers are nice for academics because it gives us a chance to work hard on research and other projects that seem to getcrowded out by service, teaching, writing conference papers, and the like during the academic year. One of my goals for this summer...
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this blog directly related to my own research on 18th- and 19th-century Quito. With help from a graduate research assistant, I’m finally getting around to transcribing more of the jail visitas (censuses) that I collected...
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This has been a banner year for ash spew. My guess is that we will see a short term global temperature dip as a result of all of the recent activity. Cue climate change denialists… Now. Volcán Pacaya near Guatemala City and Volcán Tungurahua...
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When I finally leafed through it, I was both impressed by the depth and importance of the library's Latin American holdings, and shamed that I had no idea what all was there until after I had moved on from graduate school in Albuquerque. ......
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I took the plunge this Spring semester and started hosting my own installations of wordpress to run courses, using dreamhost. At the time I decided to do this, dreamhost was running a special in which a year’s hosting cost me all of $10.00! I...
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