A few more photos from Ourense

Posted on August 27, 2026 by mkevane
One of the public, free, termas
The claustro. Lovely in the rain.
Lavapies emoji from medieval times?
City Hall, Ourense
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Rainy day bike ride in Ourense, Spain

Posted on August 27, 2026 by mkevane
On the trail to Barbantes
A few downpours but ended up in hot springs so all good.
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A vinyl record store in Ourense, Spain

Posted on August 27, 2026 by mkevane
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Ourense! Time to go to hot springs…

Posted on August 25, 2026 by mkevane

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Privatized bathrooms in Chamartin train station. Pretty weird imho

Posted on August 25, 2026 by mkevane

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Posters in the Reina Sofia museum

Posted on August 24, 2026 by mkevane
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A Zulueta clip set to music

Posted on August 24, 2026 by mkevane

Went to Reina Sofia museum today in Madrid and two degrees later … from Zulueta to Los Planetas to here…

https://youtu.be/72pAMC8QORI?si=m7308kxUfsCJEtJn

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Some photos from around Madrid

Posted on August 24, 2026 by mkevane
Ukraine demonstration in central Madrid
Chueca art installation
That blue sky! We don’t see it much in San Jose
Beers at Casa de Campo by the lake

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Bolivian Urkupiña street parade in Madrid

Posted on August 22, 2026 by mkevane
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Bike ride tour of Madrid

Posted on August 22, 2026 by mkevane

A gorgeous morning.

Templo Debod
La catedral
View from parque de la montana
Retiro

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Cantinflas!

Posted on August 22, 2026 by mkevane

A Cantinflas movie on the tv in our Airbnb in Madrid. I’m twelve years old again.

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Bonsai at the Madrid botanical garden

Posted on August 21, 2026 by mkevane

The paintings by Goya, Velasquez, Fortuny, and El Greco are amazing in the nearby Prado but you can’t take photos in the museum and really what can I add about Las Meninas, just a spectacularly amazing painting? The bonsai are all about 75 years old it seemed.

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Walking around Madrid

Posted on August 20, 2026 by mkevane
Walking in Retiro
Could the weather have been better? All of Madrid out in the park it seemed.
You realize why they did a lot of landscapes with sky.

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Just arrived in Madrid

Posted on August 20, 2026 by mkevane
The Airbnb in Lavapies

Will write more about our very smooth travel later, but for now just want to say that it’s nice to be in Madrid!

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Colours of Time, a lovely French film for a trans-Atlantic plane flight

Posted on August 19, 2026 by mkevane
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Nimby’s in 1870 Oviedo Spain

Posted on August 19, 2026 by mkevane
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In the reading queue

Posted on August 18, 2026 by mkevane
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Traveling in Spain

Posted on August 18, 2026 by mkevane

I will be traveling in Spain for the next couple of weeks riding bicycles in the Galicia area. Very much looking forward to this break. We will be in the towns of Lugo, Orense, Pontevedra. will try to post pictures here and updates of the trip!

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Continuing to adopt terms: tenure-stream and teaching-stream

Posted on August 14, 2026 by mkevane

Last year, our Faculty Senate President suggested widespread adoption of these terms. No binary set is ever going to cover the complexity of academic appointments, but, as he pointed out, defining one group of faculty as “non” is just not the right way to do it. So, tenure-stream and teaching-stream.

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Discretion demands accountability

Posted on August 12, 2026 by mkevane

Discretion demands accountability, is my motto for the year. Does not show up in jstor or Google Scholar or Google Books, though it does show up in a few AI-related web articles…. So, at my discretion, I declare myself the originator of the motto in the university governance context.

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