You must know the feelings — getting into ruts and escaping them. Right now I’m going through one of those periods where I see a whole body of literature in a new light — a “a ha!’ moment. In this case it’s cybernetics and information theory and it all started because one of my RAs …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Oh, and a bit of site business
So, some people at McGill were running Norton Realtime and claimed that a virus and trojan horse were coming off my homepage at http://sterneworks.org/index.html . If you feel like doing me a favor, and you run Norton Realtime or some other similar software, stop by the index page and see if you get an error …
Lesbian Sellouts
as in the show sold out before we got there. We got what we deserved for trying to do too many things in one evening and not getting out of the apartment soon enough. Still, it was a great evening between the party and getting Carrie her consolation prize — a smoked meat sandwich (lean) …
A Very Angry Horsehead
After reading Michael Berube’s blog entry on uniform determinism, I have nothing to add on the subject of the Super Bowl, except of course, “Go Eagles!” And now, I’m off to a party and then to catch a band whose very name will no doubt raise the rank of this lowly blog in search engines …
Oh, and this
I’m a February 2005 book of the month over at David Silver’s Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. That’s cool. Hope I didn’t overdo it with my author’s reply.
A quick one
–back from Pittsburgh: mission accomplished, one more Dr. in the world. –wondered at the majesty of Pittsburgh’s gothic beauty at dusk. Enjoyed seeing people. –received very cool 1904 Czech silver pocket watch as a gift from said new doctor. Will blog about it shortly. –used airplane rides to catch up on student prose and journal …
iPod: IT LIVES
I have no idea what happened. I get it to work today, all ready to install it in the museum, and behold, it turns on. Reboots itself. Starts all over. Works like a charm. Maybe I can defer that big replacement a few more years after all, or maybe I have an intermittent piece of …