— Aaron Anstett In the morning, before breakfast, I save my own life, then walk around the house all day a hero. Friends come by and ask how it feels. I say it just happened. I couldn’t help it. They’d … Continue reading
BOLLES: Toast of the Town
Preliminary facts: I don’t watch America’s Next Top Model, mostly because I haven’t really watched TV since I started grad school, but I kept up with the strike last year because an old friend of mine was a writer for … Continue reading
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland in now available for the bargain price of $180 per volume on Amazon. (Ahem.) It sounds fascinating, though, especially for those of us who practice a certain slant of book history. … Continue reading
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This stuffed sting ray was a gift from Mister Husband when I passed my orals. It’s been living on my desk ever since, partly because I wasn’t sure where else to put it, and partly because obviously it should be … Continue reading
Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. … Brooker said Microsoft and the writer, Rick Jelliffe, had not determined a price and … Continue reading
This footage of a dying frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) was uploaded today all over the Internets. It’s a deep sea critter, so sightings are rare. It’s also called an eel shark, and thusly reminds me of a shrieking eel from … Continue reading
I love living in a place that has an Art Shanty Project. The world needs more artistic ice fishing houses. I loathe living in a legal system and cultural economy where Kahle v Ashcroft is finally dead. I’d write more … Continue reading
I usually teach delivery as we go along in Scientific and Technical Presentations, and tend to rely on speeches as examples because duh, look at the course title. But last semester I taught a consolidated lesson on it after the … Continue reading
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.
