It turns out that not one but two of my students now have Gmail accounts and I—I, what sits on their dissertation committees! I what gives them papers to grade!—do not. Appalling. I am investigating whether I can become a co-author on both of their Gmail accounts despite having done nothing to get one of my own. There’s a lot of precedent for that kind of thing.

Update: Well, that didn’t take long. Two readers generously emailed with invitations: Alex Halavais was first, so I took up his offer. Thanks very much, Alex and Brad. For my next trick I will publicly sulk about not having enough $50 bills.