My World of Warcraft account is cancelled as of 2:39 AM PST on the 5th — that’s tonight. I plan to be on around midnight or one EST, if you’d like to join me…
You may or may not have noticed by now that I’ve started up a new blog, The Phenomenologist. It may take a while before it becomes clear what’s going on over there. Can you figure it out?
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Roger sent me a blast from the past at Hampshire: advice on how to survive the place. Collected by one of my exes and by the future Drag King of Philadelphia, it summarizes much of the folk wisdom about the place at the time. It rings true well beyond the boundaries of the school, in part as a measure of a college experience spent in the proximity of hippies (“Cute boys are often big stoners. Beware.”), in part as unusually sage general undergraduate advice even without the pot (“keep a perspective on how unnatural it is to live with all people between the ages of 18-23 yrs.”), but, unsurprisingly for those of us who have travelled further down this path, it also comprises pitch-perfect advice for grad school in places (“The terms of your education are 100% negotiated with faculty. NO requirements otherwise.”)
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Friday, February 24, 2006
Highly recommended for Dana, Michelle, Sarah, Ulises, and anyone else studying social software — Webmonkey has published a list entitled Ten Best Flickr Mashups. I highly recommend not playing Flickrball if you hope to get any work done.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
It appears I may be headed to Australia for spring break, somewhere between March 9 and March 19. It’s either going to be Perth or Melbourne (yeah, I know, not near each other, but Bakon is not being more specific as to where she’ll be). I am so excited! Not only did Australia hold my interest throughout childhood (something about Bunyips), but I think I might like to do a postdoc there as well, so it will be great to scope out the culture and landscape. Mary, Jon, Katina — will anyone who’s in the country let me know if you might be reachable in those areas around that time? I would love to see you!
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Thursday, February 2, 2006
I used to keep tabs on the more insidious forms of white supremacy, but it completely slipped my attention that Time Warner’s Teen People website briefly ran a loving article on white supremacist Olsen Twins look-alike music group Prussian Blue (not safe for work — there’s Nazzies in them thar websites).
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
Very interesting. It appears Ken Mosher, a former member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, visited my site and posted a link to his new project in a comment to a very old post of mine. Or perhaps an Agent Of Mosher visited. I can’t decide what I think about the comment.
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
Over the holidays, my maternal grandmother, Deedee, re-taught me how to knit. I asked her to teach me because I wanted something better for me to do with my hands in class than picking at my skin, angrily IMming with classmates, and playing computer games, but I’ve gone rather berserk with the compulsion of fibers. I’ve seen ads for local knitting groups, so I sought them out online. The results are promising.
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Now, here’s a surprising blast from the past… Not that I wasn’t alerted in advance. (Thoroughly worksafe even if you can figure out what’s going on here.)
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
I direct your attention for a moment over to Sushiesque, where there is another, growing, really hilarious example of people not reading the results of their searches thoroughly. Also, Christine has found a subway ad which should be amusing to my grad student buddies. I lmao.
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