Follow @dalezapata for the Pynchon / Against the Day vocab rundown!

♺ @SussexDocSchool: RT @Vitae_SE_Hub: New edition of 'Overview' for supervisors and PIs available at http://bit.ly/b4W0AJ

Sadly, I can't make this; looks great though: http://orgcon.eventbrite.com/ ORGCON, a Digital Rights conference.

♻ @phdcomics: New comic: 'Call for Papers!' http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1335

US Supreme Court rules on Bilski with implications for software patents. http://is.gd/d7WPX

... + Toto isn't epigraph to whole of GR. #Pynchon

... + hardly applies to GR. "A screaming comes across the sky" #Pynchon

Video on the 1st sentence of Pynchon's Lot 49 http://is.gd/d7Tma v. problematic, seems to think P. will play fair and signal intent

♻ @A1GOY: RT @photogirluk: Out of Africa.... http://twitpic.com/20r0u9 < ok, that was good

Another review of Lipsky's new David Foster Wallace piece: http://is.gd/d7zLN

♻ @philosophybites: On Martha Nussbaum on the value of the humanities http://bit.ly/b5XTG6

♻ @hwestiii: interesting piece on Pynchon's works viewed conic sections, from the lit - math geek axis. http://bit.ly/47J1vo < by M. Harris

Japanese tweets a-flooding #pynchon with an apparently new "collected works" vol. http://is.gd/d6zVr Cover just says Mason & Dixon

♻ @jennifermjones: RT @hackofalltrades: While #Eng worries about football, ppl are being beaten and gassed in TO.#G20 http://is.gd/d6xLJ

Just so that all of you watching the football know, #ENG don't stand a chance, according a "psychic octopus" http://is.gd/d6nyt

CPU was running idle at 65c. Cleaned thermal compound. Applied Artic SIlver. 35c.

It feels very good to type: mkdir ~/Documents/Work/Uni/PhD/Chapter\ 3

Justice Scalia's sickening dissent in the Troy Davis case: it's not unconstitutional to execute an innocent man http://is.gd/d2tVW

Spare a thought for Troy Davis, who is, as we speak, fighting against the state of Georgia for his life http://is.gd/d2t64

♻ @joaquim_toledo: As vuvuzelas e Thomas Pynchon http://bit.ly/c65V5N ; Tristero goes topical

Yorgos Maragos gives a shout-out to International Pynchon Week 2010; http://is.gd/d2ggp

♻ @wsjcouch Wish I could read a David Foster Wallace piece on that insane, infinite Wimbledon match.

♻ @lalitree: Audio recordings of some of the presentations given at Int'l Pynchon Week 2010: http://bit.ly/bOdh5R < check out my paper!

(though who knows who the people in that event image are!)

Excursions launches today! Come on by! http://is.gd/d06Y2

All articles uploaded and proofed; time to hit the big red button!

Entering the final phase of Excursions editing. The track is: "Orbital - Walk Now..." Publish or perish; we will publish!

♻ @timeshighered: Prepare for budget cuts of 25%, Chancellor says http://bit.ly/9RMrnA #junebudget

Budget overshadow over some more interesting Wikileaks related material: http://is.gd/cZ9cT

♻ @ucu: Budget's billion pound tax giveaways make mockery of 'we are all in this together' claim: http://bit.ly/ceizRP #junebudget

♻ @SussexDocSchool: Introduction to UNIX: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/scips ; fantastic to see *Nix being promoted!

♻ @SussexDocSchool: Introduction to UNIX: Thurs 24 July, 14:00-16:00, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/scips ; fantastic to see *Nix being promoted!

♻ @ResFortnight: RT @WilliamCB: Student Loan Book to be sold. #junebudget

♻ @williamcb: "A new balanced economy, where we save and invest and export" this is the narrow definition of rebalancing. #junebudget

Been invited to the organising committee for International Pynchon Week 2012. Olympics, eat your heart out!

Blog: http://post.ly/kJO6 My navy days with Thomas Ruggles Pynchon

Oh OJS, I'm sorry to hack your beautiful codebase so crudely, but I just need to Get Stuff Done.

xkcd's take on interdisciplinarity: http://xkcd.com/755/

"Excursions" main server -> "Excursions" backup server: a slick 10MiB/s

19:08PM, Saturday 19th June. Final galleys for Excursions, Issue 1, Excursion 1 uploaded.

♻ @TOistLive: NXNE does movies too: Thomas Pynchon biopic in 1/2 hour at the NFB. Hangover cure for all "V" ladies and Gravity's Rain-bros.

German newspapers lobby for changed copyright law to cover sentences. http://is.gd/cVtkA

M Atwood's The Year of the Flood v satisfying to read but feel conflicted on the ending.

♻ @Dystopia2009: RT @Skavoovee for #Pynchon fans - http://bit.ly/cL2VH4 #thomaspynchon

♻ @Dystopia2009: RT @ReadingMontana 50th Anniversary Edition of '#NakedLunch' by William S. #Burroughs http://amzn.to/cGNLyA

♻ @hypergogue: The Wittgenstein Rabbit-Duck and innovation http://goo.gl/fb/Q580Y

♻ @carrozo: Video game idea: Wittgenstein 3D. Navigate the world around you, correcting misconceptions about popular language as you play.

♻ @philosophybites: UK 'free schools' programme is absolutely terrifying. Why let amateurs set up their own schools?

As Utah maims its own soul once again, please support Troy Davis this week, whose hearing is June 23rd. http://is.gd/cTOkI

First edition of Excursions goes into layout editing. Taking ~1 hour/article to produce all formats. So, there goes 13 hours of my life!

♻ @sunny_hundal: Heh. Vince Cable's response to George Osborne's speech: http://twitpic.com/1xauag (by @jamesgraham)

♻ @penguinusa: Today's #Penguin75, winner of the 1973 Nat'l Book Award: pomo epic GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon http://bit.ly/bY6RYS

♻ @chriskeene: "Sussex hopeful it can avoid any compulsory redundancies" http://sn.im/xfzg8 < UCU greylisting threat seems to have worked!

All Sussex DPhils and Faculty; come hear me speak on Thomas Pynchon's interaction with Ludwig Wittgenstein; Wednesday 16th, 10am. Arts B217.

♻ @philiptallon: Live audio recording of David Foster Wallace's excellent Commencement Address. http://bit.ly/thisiswaterdfw

♻ @CarolineLucas: My Guardian letter against edu cuts. 400 LDs signed @nusuk pledge to oppose fees, now forgotten http://bit.ly/d8ibBL

Far overdue, I've bought myself some filtering earplugs for gigs. Have a read at the RNID's "Don't Lose the Music" site: http://is.gd/cOMzQ

♻ @timeshighered: RT @THEworldunirank: UK lecturers' union UCU threatens Sussex Uni with strikes and academic boycott: http://bit.ly/cn8iNB

♻ @SussexUni: Sussex Uni doctoral students to launch interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed e-journal Excursions http://bit.ly/b3ISOW

♻ @chrisbraden: "I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it." - David Foster Wallace http://tumblr.com/xjgbhq7av

♻ @sunny_hundal: Right-wingers used to keep accusing lefties of anti-Americanism. Now Americans accused of being anti-British. Idiots.

♻ @Dystopia2009: RT @taniahershman Would #Gravitysrainbow find a publisher now? An agent? Doubt it. #Pynchon

♻ @qwertyqwerty465: just got uploaded "Thomas Pynchon - A Journey Into the Mind of [p]" (2002) http://bit.ly/dqQ5EF

Wittgenstein archives available on line: http://bit.ly/cF4hew (via @oatp)

♻ @sunny_hundal: Why don't MPs pay back tuition fees instead of increasing ours? http://bit.ly/cNCI2R

Now returned from the lovely Lublin.

Blog: http://post.ly/jDMu International Pynchon Week 2010: Day 3

Blog: http://post.ly/j8PI International Pynchon Week: Day 2

Blog: http://post.ly/izgw International Pynchon Week: Day 1

3 hour cross-Poland train journey completed successfully. International Pynchon Week 2010 begins in 2 hours.

Enjoyable critique of the paper's misappropriation of Wittgenstein in Times letters today.

Man just checked in his ukelele at heathrow. This trip is already Pynchonesque.

Off to Poland for International Pynchon Week 2010!

♻ @sunny_hundal: Why Cameron is wrong about the 8m "economically inactive" http://bit.ly/9fQUwM - by @touchstoneblog on LC.

♻ @timeshighered: RT @PeterKGeoghegan Ageing academics aren't making way for fresh blood in UK universities http://bit.ly/a9V82z

Quite excited that eminent Pynchonite, Luc Herman, will be chairing my panel at IPW2010.

♻ @chriskeene: Wall Street Journal on UK HE cuts http://sn.im/x6edz

♻ @JahFurry: RT @stbasile: Short clip of David Foster Wallace discussing Realism & Contemporary Art: http://youtu.be/Ft4YT80XgHg

In Finsbury Park raging against the machine with @liannedemello

Mason & DIxon: "Book of a Lifetime" (The Independent: http://is.gd/cC17J ) Thomas #Pynchon

"There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza." - Netanyahu http://is.gd/cAKBe / Amnesty disagrees: http://is.gd/cAKCZ

Inherent Vice (Vizio di Forma) in Spanish also this September. http://is.gd/cAKuj #Pynchon

♻ @SussexDocSchool: Excursions launch party 23 June, 15:00. Sussex researchers invited to celebrate the new e-journal http://bit.ly/bplB73

♻ @soozeequew: TIME's #1 Commencement speech is David Foster Wallace's at @KenyonCollege in 2005. http://ow.ly/1SoAm #KCclassof05

UCU warns strike could go national. http://is.gd/cxUOi

♻ @timeshighered: UCU vows to fight government’s ‘ignorance policy’ http://bit.ly/d0haUq

♻ @phdcomics: New comic: 'Keep it up.' http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1324 < my bank holiday