Category Archives: rants

On College and the “Return on Investment”

I keep see­ing arti­cles about the “return on invest­ment” of a col­lege edu­ca­tion. The lat­est one warns that a col­lege degree won’t return your invest­ment! Or it will, but you’ll only make $400,000 more than a high school grad­u­ate over 30 years, instead of $1.2 mil­lion more, unless you are lucky enough to be pay­ing back …

18 July 2010 – 3:13 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in rants | Tagged | Comments (0)

An Open Letter to the Producers of LOST

Dear Damon Lin­de­lof and Carl­ton Cuse: I have been a LOST fan  —  devo­tee, even!  —  ever since the sum­mer after Sea­son 1, when I devoured the whole sea­son on DVD over the course of about 48 hours. Elec­tro­mag­net­ism? I’m there! Time travel? Bring it on! Alter­nate real­i­ties? Excel­lent! For the five sea­sons since then, I have watched every episode the …

13 April 2010 – 10:58 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in rants, reviews, tv | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Amazon, Macmillan, Apple, and ebooks: Marx is freaking out

Last year my fam­ily all went together to buy me a Kin­dle. For the past year I’ve been so delighted with it: so many books at my fin­ger­tips, and in so light a pack­age! I’ve been fond of the e-ink dis­play, and I like that I can high­light and take notes and access those high­lights …

30 January 2010 – 9:04 pm | By bibliotrek | Posted in rants | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)