Keitt Lab

OK. This is a bit pathetic, but I am actually going to complain about living a stone's throw from the best coffee shop in Austin. Every once in awhile I head over to Cafe Medici to clear my head and do some writing away from the distractions of home and office. The problem is that with 50k+ students in Austin, there is never ever a seat in the cafe. Students (ok and a few profs and other professionals) camp out with laptops all day. They'd sell more coffee if the dumped their free wifi.

So one day I get the following email:

From: MySpace Admin <noreply@message.myspace.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Subject: MySpace Email Verification
To: tkeitt@gmail.com

Hi Tia,

Thanks for verifying your email address.

To complete the process, click the link below:

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One of my graduate students sent this article around. Great piece on the pressures facing academic faculty and the cost to creativity incurred by the current system. I know all too well how little genuine creativity really matters to most academic institutions. Its refreshing to hear someone else say it.