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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: December 2002
New Year’s Resolution #1
WHEREAS the amount and quality of reading I did last year was pitiful… At the moment, I can think of only two-and-a-half works of fiction I read over the last 12 months: I reread Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark, and left it in a lounge in Schiphol so as not to read it again (it’s [...]
I-and-i spelling
An article in the New York Times, entitled “Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do,” dicusses whether the “I” in internet should be capitalized. I have, for a long time, and for many of the reasons Joseph Turrow suggests, thought that capitalization is unnecessary. It is, after all, a part of everyday life. Moreover, [...]
My own private California
Wish I had enough cash on hand to buy Bridgeville and set it up as utopia. Jamie and I actually bought a lottery ticket the other day–first time ever–but no luck. I guess I’ll have to wait on buying a town, they do come up now and again. Wired says Bridgeville has a thriving marijuana [...]
The Cantenna Gospel
Had dinner at a neighbor’s tonight. It was fun, even for an anti-social guy like myself. M is a local attorney who is planning on putting in a wireless system at his firm soon, which just happens to have a sight-line to his roof at home. I think I sold him on playing a bit [...]
Merry Christmas!
I hate that I now say “happy holidays.” It’s not that I am a raging Christian. Heck, I’m pretty un-Christian, as a matter of fact. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m down with J, I dig the whole walking on water thing, I just don’t buy into a lot of the nonsense that seems to [...]
How long I have waited…
…to say this to a customs inspector: “Yes, I’ve got monkeys in my pants.” Though I’m not sure I would be willing to actually put… you know… monkeys in my pants, just for that thrill. (via Boing)
New Year’s Resolution #2