Our first regular season hockey game after last year’s giant screwup. We went on a moment’s notice and it was really fun. It was easy to root for the Habs because, well, Atlanta has no business having a hockey team. But when did they decide to put a mic on the ice and amplify the …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
What’s the punchline?
“Three childless couples go to see a movie about a future dystopic world where women can’t give birth, but then a woman is discovered who can . . . ” Actually, Children of Men was great in that 1970s everything’s-gone-to-hell way. Even the opening title reminds me of that genre. I was totally entertained. Still, …
New Book + Music Arrivals
Kavoori and Archeneaux The Cell Phone Reader Goggin Cell Phone Culture Horst and Miller The Cell Phone notice a pattern? and I checked out Paul Edwards’ The Closed World for the millionth time. I should really buy that book. Music: Isis In the Absence of Truth and Isis/Aereogramme In the Fishtank
Kitchenware and Ammo, Together as You’ve Always Wanted Them
Locals will wonder what took us so long and everyone reading at a distance will have to file this under “what the hell?” We finally made it to Quincaillerie Dante yesterday while on some errands about town. What an amazing store. Much better prices on kitchen gadgetry and cookware than the fancy-pants cooking stores and …
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Rock Patent
This showed up in my mailbox courtesy of Kembrew McLeod. You must must must click on the picture. It’s on an actual patent.
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That’s the number of unread blog posts in my little rss feed on Safari. Yes, I have been neglecting the internet for other things. I’m thinking I need to get rid of some rss feeds and just go back to reading my friends. But enough on that. So here we are in 2007 and I …
Quote of the Week + More New Book Arrivals
The point of universites for Justi and other cameralists is to make students useful as future tools–servants of the state and upright citizens. If universities had merely the goal to improve citizens’ understanding and widen human knowledge, then one would need no public funding for institutions of such little benefit to the state and common …
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