Since breaking the ankle, I’ve hardly been venturing out of the apartment at all. There are various reasons: the big one was lack of energy, closely followed by negotiating stairs and ice. I went to a doctor’s appointment at the … Continue reading
Me: [plays with Net Disaster in a strange state of fascination] Him: “My God, you’re easily entertained.” Me: “I’m broken. I’ve been out of the apartment twice in the past six and a half weeks. This is totally entertaining.” For … Continue reading
Observations regarding 99% of All Anti – DMCA Essays I Ever Read (which means 98% of all DMCA Essays I Ever Read) DMCA = Bad. Free Speech / Creativity / Originality / Subversion = Doomed. People who support DMCA = … Continue reading
(Initially written for Networked Rhetorics) Back in early February, I sat on a panel with Dan Gillmor as he positioned blogs within the proverbial “long tail.” With the influence of bloggers on mainstream journalism, he says, the tail has begun … Continue reading
I requested my medical records during my last visit to my surgeon, and they came in today’s mail. Finally, I have a medical term to google – trimalleolar ankle fracture. The records themselves are fascinating reading (to me, anyway), and … Continue reading
Because Michelle says I have to. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? I have managed to almost read Fahrenheit 451 twice. The first time was in 11th grade English at the Southern Baptist School. … Continue reading
Crutching around the apartment the other day, I noticed that it was really a controlled process of falling forward (as opposed to the uncontrolled backward fall I did to accomplish the breakage). And that, of course, put me in mind … Continue reading
I hadn’t known that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir produced an album of Disney covers back in the early 80s, but when Mister Boyfriend fondly remembered their stirring rendition of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah one evening I had to order it up. It’s a … Continue reading
I don’t know how I managed to live 29 years and not read Margaret Atwood’s poems. I just ordered Morning in the Burned House as a belated birthday present to myself. And here is a tremendously funny lecture she delivered … Continue reading
Today’s my sweetie’s birthday. I have traditionally posted a photograph as gift to him, but this year I prefer the piece he just wrote over anything I might come up with. Send him some love.
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
