Plastic Bags

Amanda has just posted a really good piece at Household Opera in which she begins with observations about grocery bagging and ends with a nice analogy to the current problems besetting academia. (I'm not doing it justice.)



Note to Amanda: I share your annoyance with the bagging situation. In fact, I am obsessive enough to arrange my stuff on the conveyor belt in an order that will hopefully result in good bagging. Of course, I also line up all the bar codes towards the scanner, but that's more an aftereffect of doing the same in libraries.)