Are you talking about philosophy or the committee?

[sovay]

And courtesy of shweta_narayan, the webcomic that ate my life yesterday: Family Man. The Enlightenment! Judaism! University politics! Theological debates! In-jokes about Ovid! In-jokes about Rousseau! Careful research of taxonomically appropriate pine trees! Our half-Jewish protagonist just tried to defend a dissertation on Spinoza at Göttingen in 1768. The werewolves at his new lectureship are the least of his problems.

In the meantime, Kate Beaton has been reviewed by The Economist.

I am not doing anything near that interesting today. I still have this book, though.

Comments

[genarti]

Oh, Family Man! I keep meaning to do a post recommending it to everyone I know, because it really is fabulous. A very specific and geeky kind of fabulous, but this is true of most of my friends too. So that works out.

(Plus I have met the author -- she and my brother were friends in college -- and she's delightful. So that would be a point in its favor for me even if it weren't independently excellent.)

[sovay]

I keep meaning to do a post recommending it to everyone I know, because it really is fabulous.

You should. I'd never heard of it until the day before yesterday.

(Plus I have met the author -- she and my brother were friends in college -- and she's delightful. So that would be a point in its favor for me even if it weren't independently excellent.)

That's cool!

[genarti]

I have made a note to myself to do so! Webcomics are something I'm very bad at remembering to follow regularly, so I'm always startled to find out that I'm not in fact the last person to know about one. Even when logic says I ought to know better.