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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

By alex | Published: 3/22/2010
With a little person running around, I get to go to the movies far less often, and so can take fewer risks. I still do want to see Burton’s Alice, despite the decidedly mixed reviews, but instead decided to see the well-reviewed Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor). A number of people [...]
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Alter Career

By alex | Published: 12/3/2009
Thanks in part to Prof. Eco, and the model of the Pillow Book, my blog needs more lists. Careers I might have enjoyed (and may yet), instead of being full-time faculty: 1. Inventor / Engineer 2. Architect / Urban Planner 3. Astronaut 4. Novelist 5. Stunt man 6. Ship’s captain 7. Actor 8. Intelligence analyst [...]
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Fishavator

By alex | Published: 11/26/2009
Near-neutral-buoyancy + Goldfish crackers = fun!
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Communications Director: Digital Media & Learning

By alex | Published: 7/21/2009
The Communications Manager for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub is responsible for managing the external relations, public web site, and providing publicity for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, a distributed research initiative that examines learning processes and institutions in the digital age. The position involves leadership in developing a public identity [...]
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Shifted Pace

By alex | Published: 6/23/2009
Got an IM from someone checking in a few weeks back. He had gathered that my work had “changed pace.” I wondered what that meant, and he suggested that I had slowed down. Now, I am naturally lazy–a trait I am trying to more actively cultivate, but I gather he had figured that because I [...]
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Broadway for Rent

By alex | Published: 6/10/2009
Been trying to do more walking (you know, the 10K steps thing, and tracking it on WalkerTracker), and Jasper has been riding around with me in his ErgoBaby, so we’ve been looking in store windows a lot and talking about what there to see. More and more frequently: dust. There are always vacancies out on [...]
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