While poking through some boxes my mom had yanked out of one of her giant walk-in closets the other day, I stumbled across an amusing piece of historical kitsch from my life: a tree leaves report I did for my … Continue reading
The following is connected to the Can’t Stop Thinking About Teaching post I made last week or so. It’s a scanned snapshot of a work in progress, namely my sketching out of new, interactive modules for my HST 102 Intro … Continue reading
Per usual, as a school year winds down, I find myself thinking way too much about what changes I want to make to my classes, my classroom pedagogy, or whatever for next year. This is a problem because I should … Continue reading
I showed The Battle of Algiers (1966) in my Europe since World War II class earlier tonight, and while I was watching, I scribbled random notes to myself (a good habit to have when it comes to talks and such). … Continue reading
I first joined Twitter in late 2008 — 6 December 2008 to be specific — mostly as an exercise to take the piss out of social media and try to come up with pithy comments on nothing. My first tweet, … Continue reading
For reasons I cannot really explain, this is the best passage in Charlie Stross’ Saturn’s Children, which I just finished the other night. The set-up is that the main character, an obsolete sexbot called Freya is touring an illegal biodome … Continue reading
I’ve been reading a lot in the last several months, mostly science fiction and fantasy novels of varying types. All of this has been part of a concerted effort, since I finished my Ph.D. in 2007, to spend time reading … Continue reading
I have been slowly but surely groping my way back towards a scholarship mindset, after being distracted for the last few months by more sundry issues (job-hunting; logistics of moving an academic office across the state, etc) and more novel … Continue reading
So for the last couple of weeks or so, I’ve been “DJ-ing” on Blip.fm, pushing the content out to the rest of my social media empire through Twitter. Initially I’ve had little purpose other than to highlight songs I like. … Continue reading
Cheese, baby! It’s all about the Cheese when you blog… So, what have I been reading lately? Oh I know you want me to tell you. Mostly reading for fun, which I’ve been able to do since I finished my … Continue reading