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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 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: November 2002
Dangerous times
The winner of the Shell-Economist Prize this year is a particularly good essay. It argues that our grandparents walked uphill 8 miles to school every day and liked it. It argues concisely and compellingly that Americans need to suck it up. In part: It is fashionable to remark that America “lost its innocence” on September [...]
David Bowie
On his library: Every book I have ever bought, I have. I can’t throw it away. It’s physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I’ve got a library that I keep the ones I really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to [...]
November 17
November 17. That means it has been several days since I’ve made an entry. It is also, of course, the nom de guerre of a particularly successful terrorist group started back in the days before we declared war on terror. It takes is name from the date that the Greek Army crushed a student protest [...]
Snow chalking?
Gary Ozanich mentioned that he is toying with the idea of engaging the MI students in a group warchalking project for downtown Buffalo in the Spring–though I hope the product looks something more like this. I am increasingly interested in the opportunities for wireless networking, and particularly Ultra Wide Band applications. (See this whitepaper [pdf] [...]
The head of the chain gang
A week ago Prof. Tutzauer presented some of his work on the networked prisoners’ dilemma for my Communication Theory seminar. It was very interesting, both to the students and to me. Inevitably someone asked him about the utility of such simulations, and Frank gave his standard reply: he doesn’t care. But, as if to prove [...]
Waypath
Wow, this one hits pretty close to home! I have to get cracking on my project.
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