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Just Folks
My coffee supply was running low this morning, so I pulled on some jeans and pod-personed the two blocks uphill to my local grocery of predatory prices, Cala Foods»A 50-count bottle of Advil is priced at nearly $9.«. I’d...
Notes About Networks
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...
Time Has Come
This image makes me think of how we’re split in so many different directions, if only through technology we could do everything at once, in slices of time each smaller than the other, the abundant side of Zeno’s paradox...
Philosophy of Signage Followed By a Short Blogger’s Vacation
I will be starting a new job on Wednesday, 27 January and have decided to take a much-needed break starting today. This means no posts until Wednesday, 27 January at the earliest and Saturday, 30 January at the latest....
6.5 Earthquake Rocks Humboldt County
Trudy’s Sweets & Treats in Ferndale, CA (source) The linked SFGate article notes that no injuries were reported, but 18,000 customers were without electricity as darkness fell. It calls to my mind the 12:29 PM 17 August 1991 Honeydew...
“The San Francisco Roach is Generally German or Oriental in Derivation”
Pacific Heights»Pacific Heights. Dir. John Schlesinger. 1990.« is a vastly underrated psychological thriller. Part of the problem likely is the wooden acting by Matthew Modine and the unconvincing ditzy by Melanie Griffith, though Michael Keaton plays creep quite well.1...
In the Future Everyone Will Have Their 12 Seconds of Fame
Prelim Watching a video debate about whether President Obama should shame unprincipled detractors by identifying them, I came across a video that asks “Is Lady Gaga Sexy Or Just Crazy?” The moment I saw this picture Lady GaGa in...
Harry Connick Jr. Hates Blackface
The contestants, all medical professionals, are none too talented and, judging by their routine, racially oblivious. The audience cheers the jerking minstrels, clapping to the beat of a racial lampooning. At 1:49 Harry Connick Jr. looks dumbfounded, and at...
Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text
Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...
Signify On This: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Arrested for Disorderly Conduct
The New York Times reports that Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested for disorderly conduct outside his own home. Judging from the copy of the AP report, I’m guessing that the police responded to Gates’s indignation with calculated stupidity....
Who I Thought I Was
This morning I dreamt I was going to a workshop about the use of technology in academic research. I was with people who reminded me of my colleagues and coworkers in the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia....
Resurface
The two areas which have absorbed my attentions for the last two months (outside the shambles that passes for my personal life) has been my teaching and my writing. This entry is about the writing part of my life, research...
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