For PC lovers, this is a win-win. Why? Because Microsoft bought Skype, oh, a little less than two months ago.
And Now, I do not have to even join Skype; I just need a camera and recording devices for my laptop.
Bob Cargill adds his thoughts on this deal and the potential it has to benefit scholars.
I’m wondering if this will change the interview process in academia altogether, with the application process, the “Facebook to Facebook interview” and then the face-to-face interview. Sounds pretty reasonable.
What say you?
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Rod, a little help please on a related/non-related question. I saw your post, “Did Abel Deserve To Die?: Mosala’s Postcolonial Reading of Genesis 4:1-16.” Beats me how (can’t remember) I stumbled on it. Thank you btw for clean and clear writing and for situating yourself and your partners in that post. Helpful. It was one of those posts of instant love/hate. So I kept fiddling. Re-reading.
I guess it was in spectral evidence and night dreams and during conscious running in the desert, a partial answer came. More inner storm and brew than answer. I wanted to answer whether Abel deserved to die by starting with a jump-off-quote – “Does Marcellus Look Like a Bitch?” – which is really the answer (the way I see it).
And weave Robert Trivers and some sociobiology into the response. Not against your material Marx (though I’m not a buyer – sick pun), plausibly friendly to it. Still a storm in brew for me. I announced my hope to respond on my own blog today (second post down, about Professional Theologians). I cannot find an email for you, so please forgive my posting here.
The problem is that I just now noticed the dateline on your post – May 10, 2011. And wondered if it’s a dead thread? Too stale? Or if my topic is off-topic? – a distraction? I’ll probably play this through for myself anyway – and I don’t know yet how it is going to write in full, the storm is fun if uncertain. I just don’t want to make this a high priority if that post is stale or dead, and more, I’m not assuming or expecting any response from you.
Delete this please if it’s only noise …
Cheers,
Jim
Hey Jim,
I am fine with people commenting and having questions on very old posts, no matter how outdated they are:
Here is the link to Mosala’s view of Cain and Abel:
http://politicaljesus.com/2011/05/10/mosalas-postcolonialgenesis-4/
I would be interested in reading your thoughts on the matter.
Got it. Thanks … you may delete my noise here if you like. All set …
No problem.
As a person lacking a Facebook account, I’m not so sure I like this idea. I regularly write and call my senators and representatives regarding issues that are important to me (most recently, Sen. Cornyn’s actions toward DADT). Did my thoughts have any influence on him? I don’t, and may never, know, but I hate to think that our representatives might give their constituents’ views more credence if they are voiced via corporate conglomerate rather than from somewhere else.
How true, Tusk, how true.