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Converting academic pdfs to text for use with QDA software is generally okay, but sometimes is has some funny results, like really bad accidental ASCII art.

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Me: hey why does baby have glasses

Teacup human: it's a historian baby

Me: not all historians have glasses

Teacup human: *massive, teen-worthy eyeroll* I do know about microfilm, Daddy.

Me: 🏳

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"The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take."

- Henry James

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@juniperoxford This one resonates. Still, it's great to have this lead on the image...

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Why did someone not drag me kicking and screaming to the Zotero website and make me start using this ten years ago...?

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Supervisor has arrived in home office. Better buckle down...

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Very much enjoying Krista Cowan's chapter on collective biography in Gunn and Faire's "Research Methods for History" (2016). This quote (at p.91) from Virgina Woolf resonated:

"How can one make a life out of six cardboard boxes full of tailors’ bills, love letters and old picture postcards?"

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Rome wasn't built in a day.

Grading papers didn't take one either...

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I teach an academic course where we discuss such important topics as the consequences of the fall of #newfrance, Indigenous warfare tactics, and if I should buy a rice cooker.
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