How to make life better

[the_lady_lily]

metonymy has discovered the infallible way of making my life better on a slightly grumpy Thursday morning.

Point me towards a cute video of a pangolin in the Kalahari desert.

Point the first - it is very cute when it rolls up into a tiny ball right at the very end. So cute I made 'oh, the cuteness!' noises out loud.

Point the second - it looks nothing like a Vestal Virgin.

For those of you with institutional JSTOR access and no idea what I'm talking about, have a shufti at this.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

What always alarms me about JSTOR articles is that I realise quite how much I judge an article on its font. Normally I know in advance how recently something has been published, but if I've done the search and gone straight through to JSTOR, I'll frequently not have noticed when it was published until I see the font and layout and go, pah! This is bloody ancient! This is clearly a New Criticism font!

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Actually, I know what you mean, although I have to say the Classical journals tend to be quite conservative with their fonts - you can tell which journal it's from rather than what time period, as a lot of the journals have been kicking around for years.

I like JSTOR. I also like pangolins :)

I too love JSTOR*

[greenelephant.livejournal.com]

It's interesting, isn't it, how the distinctions manifest themselves. I can spot a JRS article from the title font, the page width and the double footnote columns. Phoenix always surprises me because the font is not particularly attractive, even in recent issues. Regarding the date of an article, however, I find that in Classical periodicals, the real distinction is whether a translation is given for the ancient languages, and to a smaller extent, whether modern languages are used in the body of the article (German, esp.) as part of the scholarly lingua franca.

*the STOR part of the logo always reminds me of SPQR for some reason.