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Monthly Archives: April 2006
the perception of forestalling loneliness
I wrote last fall about how ready I am to be done with coursework. That’s still true, although it sure ain’t evident lately. The end of this semester should have been relatively light, and with some industry I could have … Continue reading
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scheduling
It occurs to me that if I were a Good Doctoral Student, I would have a schedule this summer. Last summer I made a point of never even setting the alarm, but I don’t think that’s going to be an … Continue reading
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reading begats more reading
Back in February, I decided I needed to read more fiction. And I have. This semester, I’ve worked in a fair amount of Annie Proulx: The Shipping News, That Old Ace in the Hole, and Accordion Crimes, which I’m about … Continue reading
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summer work
Instead of teaching this summer, I’ll be pulling project management duties for the smoking cessation grant I’ve been consulting on over in our Medical School. (Haven’t mentioned it explicitly until now because I wanted to make sure things were rolling … Continue reading
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Shaved
Particularly for Miss Frizzy: SHAVED: When the binder has trimmed off the whole margin of a leaf and touched ink, but has not actually cut off more than the outer edge of any printed letters, the result is indicated by … Continue reading
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the harder they fall
Willie Nelson’s reggae album is glorious. Yea, verily. We’ve been listening to it for the past two days around here. But the downside to that is that I have an a country icon’s reggae version of The Harder They Come … Continue reading
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sometimes you surprise yourself
a. The Internet Theory & Research seminar requires each student to lead a full session of the class. Which means two and a half hours. Typically, students end up guiding the discussion along through pre-assigned readings. b. Today was Blogs … Continue reading
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changing tastes
For most of my life, I wasn’t at all fond of any sort of peppers. (Loved spices, though, including those that incorporated peppers. But any actually evident pepper was verboten.) Then I started working with a bunch of restauranteurs who … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking
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Teaching IP: Copyright, Civil Rights, Cultural Heritage
When we teach intellectual property (and particularly copyright complements) in the Comp or Tech Comm classroom, it’s very easy to burble on about distributing knowledge and preservation of cultural heritage and open access/source/content and then play a couple of mash-ups … Continue reading
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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.
