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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
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: September 2003
Uh-oh (pt. 2)
Well yes, Buffalo does get some serious snow storms, ice storms, cold flashes, flooding, and heat waves, but it’s not like we get… oh, nevermind.
Uh-oh (pt. 1)
Why staffers no longer greet the Commander in Chief with “Hi, Mr. President.”
Microsoft (hardware) Rules!
Having difficulty with my arms and wrists led me to one of Microsoft’s split keyboard and trackball. (When I was younger, I was an early adopter. But back then I had fewer bills…) You never realize how much a regular keyboard and mouse do a number on your hands and arms until you make a [...]
Bad Theory?
I just read a thinly veilled hatchet-job of the UCSB Film School that appeared in the LA Times this summer, called Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. I tend to be very practical in my approach to theory, especially contemporary and post-modern theory. Some of it is intrinsically interesting. That is, it creates an interesting [...]
Free Cooperation
I seem to have inadvertently become involved in planning for several academic gatherings: the panels on blogs for the Internet Research conference, which I am looking forward to both with anticipation and some trepidation; a small conference on the Buffalo campus on scholarly communication, “Publishing the Future,” which I will have more to say about [...]
Heartless?
I have a strong cynical and contrarian streak, and yet, by the time I end this entry I may very well delete it. Though I did not lose anyone close to me two years ago today, I know many who did, and I know also that this has traumatized an even greater number of New [...]
All quiet in Bagdad