I tend to listen to CDs that I want to actually experience as albums in the car, since the house listening is all iTunes singles mixes. I didn’t listen to much that was new this summer, but these made for … Continue reading
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthplace in Pepin, WI is only a couple of hours away from the Twin Cities. Yesterday afternoon was beautiful enough for a last short road trip. Mister Husband suggested heading over there, and so off we went. … Continue reading
So I attempted homemade chiles rellenos for dinner, and it turns out they’re not all that hard to make. I ran poblanos under the broiler to blacken, stuck them in a bag for a few minutes, and removed the skin. … Continue reading
If orientation starts this week, then it must be time for my annual navel-gazing “where did the summer go?” post. Evidently, I’ve had the urge to do this every August that I’m not hiatus: here’s 2006 and 2005, but no … Continue reading
It turned out there wasn’t a Flickr group for the Twin Cities Peanuts statues we have scattered all over the place, so I made one last Thursday night. As of now, it has 14 members and 82 photos. You should … Continue reading
Or, what happens when you turn a five year old loose with a Pocket Instamatic in 1981. Lots of ass-high photography, for one thing. I also immediately commenced documentary work. This is from a race in June 1981. Runners, and … Continue reading
We call this The Bowling House. As far as I can tell, the motif goes all the way around.
I’ve been homesick for swamps the past week or so, so I went out and found some muck this afternoon. Snail Lake certainly isn’t a swamp, and neither are the marshes and bogs we have up here, but I felt … Continue reading
So back in March I said I was updating stuff around here. And I ran around and stripped a bunch of code and then Ooh! Shiny! Other stuff! That, plus every time I do this I forget that I got … 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.
