Boing Boing links to a website that started as a project by one of my students in Introduction to Humanities Computing at Maryland in 2001. Jenny Miller hits the Boing Boing big time!
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everything’s fine
I just have nothing to say lately. This (mp3, 5.3M) will disappear soon. I saw this last week. I’d like to see this. I recently read this. In my spare time, I hope to be doing more with these and/or this soon.
In my non-spare time, I’ll be doing a lot of reading and writing for the foreseeable future.
an invitation
Mel suggests a reading group to work though Donald E. Hall’s The Academic Self: An Owner’s Manual (Ohio State UP, 2002). Interested? Drop her a comment.
dreaming my dreams of you
Me, having just woken up: I dreamed I was asked to join the Grateful Dead.*
L: You have much more exciting dreams than I do. I dreamed you did all the grocery shopping.
* First, I don’t really like the Grateful Dead very much. Second, this is a kind of dream I have fairly often, although less so in recent years. Third, I wasn’t anxious about joining the band; I was actually a very good guitarist.
it’s funny because it’s…no, it’s not really funny
An entry from Kansas City Soil on local high school kids attempting to establish a student government:
Geoffery annd Leodis, and a couple of other kids, have been making some real progress. They’ve even come up with a preamble, which they submitted to the school’s vice principal for approval. The text includes the word “totalitarian” — as in “the totalitarian school administration” — and when the vice principal saw this she demanded to know what it meant.
“Totalitarian,” Geoffery replied, kind of shoocked. “You know, like total control.”
Apparently, the VP didn’t believe him. Or whatever. I’m not reallly sure. All I know is that she went to her office and looked the word up. And the next day, she demanded that the word be removed from the preamble.
I’m not sure if I need to offer more analysis here to convey the many levels of irony.