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Tweets
- Someone has been kind enough to point out that this is *exactly* the luck of the Irish, BTW. (I am irony-blind!) 2 days ago
- Microsoft keeps bugging me. http://alex.halavais.net/ms-for-your-protection 2 days ago
- I do not have the luck of the Irish. Got 2 flat tires on my way back from school Weds night. Replacements won't arrive for a week. 2 days ago
- Much better title than "Steal This Book": http://is.gd/aIpF3 6 days ago
- Each year, more of the clocks in my house spring ahead on their own. 1 week ago
- At ikea. Just bought a room's worth of furniture. Power has failed & so no systems for delivery. Sooo, sleeping here tonight? 1 week ago
- Yeah, yeah. Lady Gaga video. But I like the new Kate Nash: http://is.gd/anfMX 1 week ago
- Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year. 1 week ago
- These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1 1 week ago
Archives
Monthly Archives: June 2003
Microreviews
Frida: Life mixed with art mixed into film rather than biopic; makes you dream in color; Hayek injects life into the character and the viewer.
Emperor’s Club: Moralizing parable that tries not to be heavy-handed and fails, despite Kevin Kline’s presence; cliché-fest in which every actor is upstaged by the campus of the Emma [...]
10 Years and Counting
As of today Jamie and I have been married a decade. Every day, I am thankful that I was lucky enough to meet her.
The accepted knowledge these days is that to have a successful marriage, you have to be two independent people; you are likely to have arguments, but that these can be worked out. [...]
Guilty chills
Just installed the window air conditioner and I’m feeling guilty. Our house was built in the 20s, and has decent cross-ventilation. I shouldn’t need air conditioning. It is supremely unstylish and unromatic. When picturing myself in the middle of a Maugham story–which I do more often than I would like to admit–I keep thinking a [...]
Handy I/O
As devices become increasingly mobile, the interfaces are also smaller and smaller. I was thinking this morning (in the shower, where I usually do my day’s thinking) about how to make more effective input devices. Way back in my undergrad days, there was a lot of talk about the direction of chording keyboards and the [...]
Brief interruption
Go look at this. Now go give this person some money.
Bursts of burst measurers
I just put in a paper to HICSS talking about the blog searching tool I’m working on. It’s not my greatest work. But it’s getting a little crowded lately for those looking at “bursty” words and phrases in the blogosphere. Intelliseek is the newest kid on the block, I guess, with their BlogPulse. Where’s Google? [...]
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