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...

Posted by mistersquid on April 27, 2011 6:43 AM

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...

Posted by mistersquid on September 29, 2010 9:09 AM

(!Espresso) Steam for Mac Available Now

Valve releases Steam for Mac and, until 24 May, Portal is free.»Links: MetaFilter; MacWorld Review of Portal; Slashdot« Pour it all via...

Posted by mistersquid on May 13, 2010 9:09 AM

Notes toward an interruption

My lawn needs mowing. I have this notion that after the next heavy rain, water will pool in the middle of my lawn and a family of beavers will make a dam in the middle. They will gather sticks from...

Posted by mistersquid on July 28, 2007 10:44 AM

Spider-Face

--> This morning between midnight and 02:00 Eastern, I saw Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. 1 The film weaves together storylines from the Spider-Man comic book and graphic novel sagas (both largely unfamiliar to me).2 One story arc in the Spider-Man...

Posted by mistersquid on May 4, 2007 8:15 PM

It's 2006. Do you know where your passwords are?

Today I met with one of my M.A. students. She is developing an interpretive model that complicates the gender dynamics Clover details in “Her Body, Himself,” with an aim to offset Clover's emphasis on masochistic and sadistic spectator positions...

Posted by mistersquid on May 4, 2006 11:57 PM