A. Do not watch 24 before going to bed. Bad idea. I actually had my first nuclear nightmare since childhood Tuesday night (we watched it a day late). Plus all that edge-of-your-seat stuff isn’t exactly relaxing. B. Do not attempt to feed the icky outdoor cat.(1) It will keep coming around and mess up our …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Loose Ends
–The cheese dip was a big hit at the Super Bowl Party –My talk went over quite well at the conference. I felt bad presenting something that’s already been accepted for publication somewhere, but you know what? Other people do it all the time. And as a result of it being “old” to me (even …
In and Out of Ruts
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 …
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.