This is all so very impressive. Getting blogrolled, I haven't the slightest idea what that is, but it sounds quite important. So congratulations. All right, I'll be honest, I have an idea what it is, but it's still very slight. Quite slight, right.

I do not like Tartuffe. Well, on its own, it's quite an agreeable play. A sunny disposition and fun to be around. But when one has to write a paper with proper MLA-form citations, one grows bitter. And I am one.

Old News:

Amanda Butler's blog has been blogrolled by How Appealing. Amanda has, however, made the tactical error of titling her blog "to get there you follow highway 58" (from All The King's Men; her blog is also the top google hit for the phrase) rather than "Amanda Butler's Blog" which puts her very, very, low on the alphabetical blogroll. Ahh, well. Marketing isn't everything.

More Sex is Safe Sex:

Steve Landsburg of Slate, also a professor at Rochester, has some interesting chapters up on his website. In general he provides very interesting/thought-provoking economic analyses of everyday life, although sometimes the assumptions and simplifications he makes are enough to make him seem almost parodic. Still, it's definitely worth reading what he has to say about sex. An excerpt:

Yet the entire problem...would vanish if our sexual pasts could somehow be made visible, so that future partners could reward past prudence and thereby provide appropriate incentives. Perhaps technology can ultimately make that solution feasible. (I imagine the pornography of the future: ``Her skirt slid to the floor and his gaze came to rest on her thigh, where the imbedded monitor read `This site has been accessed 314 times'.'')

Neat. It's 3:03 on 03/03/03!

And something similar will happen in about 13 months. And about 13 months after that. And so forth.