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Michael Livingston

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Joy: A Boy and His Bike

We went shopping for a new bike for the Young Master yesterday. Up until now, he’s been blasting around the ‘hood on one of these little bad boys: Yessir, that’s a Skuut balance bike right there. He got one as a gift from his grandparents, and it didn’t take him …

Googling Myself

Gathering information for my tenure documentation packet, I recently spent a bit of time Googling my academic self. I found what I needed, but I also a lot of unrelated but surprisingly interesting bits of data, too. Some highlights: – My article “More Vinland Maps and Texts: Discovering the New …

Website Changes: Now with Front Page!

I’ve once again had a few spare hours to get into the website coding and put some things into place that I’ve long been planning on doing. Most noticeable among these changes is the addition of a static “front page” for the site. Before, folks accessing www.michaellivingston.com were shuffled directly …

Spring 2011 Student Evaluations

Student evaluations are in for Spring 2011, and I read them while sitting in a waiting room yesterday. As I suspected, the graduate student evaluations were a mixed bag. There was a palpable anger in the air on the week of evaluations — something many of us teaching graduate classes …