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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 2 days ago
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: November 2002
New metropolis
Metropolis, last nights rental flick, reminded me a lot of Buffalo. I’ll have to watch the original again: I haven’t seen it since moving to Buffalo. The reason, of course, is obvious. Buffalo’s heyday intersected neatly with the Nouveau movement. The most striking and obvious example is the city hall, but there is also the [...]
Return something day
Buy nothing day? I’ve observed the holiday since it started. Now I’m stepping it up a notch. I plan on returning an item tomorrow :). Comments on the site are sometimes amusing: why not participate? You can get what you want any other day. Plus you might get laid for being “proactive”. Support the futile [...]
California dreaming
It was a chilly snowy morning today, just in time for Thanksgiving. Finn loved it, and would have hoovered up the entire yard if we’d let him. As it is, he now has a belly full of snow and is curled up next to a heating register downstairs. Around the same time, I ran into [...]
Blog locally, research globally
I would like to see my department at the forefront of open research. At first, this desire came from wanting faculty to collectively manage our school website and keep it from becoming another boring pamphlet. The plan was simple: instead of hiring a webmaster we should instead make it a graduate assistant position, and encourage [...]
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