SurfnPoetry

"Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time. Waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along." (E.B. White, The Paris Review Interviews, 1969)

2.28.2007

Access Matters

Access to health care matters. Access to dental care matters. Access to information about where one can find these things matters. We all...

2.26.2007

Frightening

Seems like some who use the terrorist moniker like it's table salt don't like it being used on them . Interesting.

Defusing a Meme

A lot of people believe the enthymeme that CNN is "liberal" (people, at least during the Clinton administration, gave it the nickn...

2.23.2007

Semiotics of Power (part 2)

In an earlier post , I analyzed Senator Obama's campaign kickoff strategy--launching in a location associated with Abraham Lincoln, echo...

2.22.2007

Mini Meta

2.18.2007

Sunday Van Halen Interlude

When It's Love (Words by Van Halen) Everybody's lookin' for somethin' Somethin' to fill in the holes We think a lot but...

2.17.2007

Addendum to the Last Post

This recent shameful episode perfectly illustrates the perils of creating a public persona in a shaming culture (and a violent one at that)...

The "Shame" of the Social

Alex, at Digital Digs , has an interesting riff on online social reputation systems and Henry Jenkin's thoughts on MIT's comparative...

2.15.2007

X-Country Skiing with my Peeps

2.11.2007

The "Profit Solves All Problems" Meme Put to a Test

I have been watching the for-profit Universities slowly changing the regulatory landscape over the past decade or so, lobbying Department of...

2.10.2007

Semiotics of Power

A lot of scholars in my field (technical communication) have tried to locate and describe the relationship between different types of symbol...

2.07.2007

Hat Tip to Joyce, Beckett, sport, and Johndan

2.06.2007

A Dilemma

I have a confession. I think I lost a DVD from Netflix . Now, they are pretty good about it, and let you just fess up and pay $20 for it. ...

2.05.2007

A Little Post on my Horrible No-Good Predictions

I didn't watch the Superbowl. I kept an eye on the "GameCast" in one of my 10 or so open windows on my desktop. I grew up wa...

2.04.2007

I was wrong

But darn it. MY Bears are still the best NFL team in the whole wide world.

Superbowl Mid-dictions

1. The Bears will win the Superbowl. 2. It won't be close.

2.03.2007

Yuck

I. Hate. Being. Sick.

2.01.2007

Hysteria

The more the officials defend their reaction, the worse they look . Yes, disguising a bomb as a Lite-Brite is certainly one way to announ...

But Cyborgs are Scary...

from a WIRED magazine feature on Donna Haraway : *snip* Sitting on the porch, listening to Haraway explain her ideas over a background of s...

1.31.2007

The Beauty of Blogging

As you may or may not know, sport and I were down in Albuquerque and Las Cruces this Christmas holiday. One of the old acquaintences who we...

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