This one’s mostly for the search engines as I’m sure most of my readers don’t need to hear this. I keep getting this spam email sent to me: Begin forwarded message: From: Yasmine Watson Date: February 2, 2012 2:15:30 AM EST To: Subject: Our Publication Offer: Your end-of-studies work Dear Essam Hallak, Some time ago …
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Okay, so I’ve been going to the speech therapist to see if there’s a way I can get back to giving talks while standing without my head spinning after a few minutes. Last time we worked on breathing, which helps but not enough. Today, I learned that I still use volume for verbal emphasis. Which …
Well, that was fun. As predicted in October, the voice lift I had was temporary, and it’s pretty much gone now as far as I can tell. I’ve noticed it in my voice, which has lost strength, low end and is more hoarse (the guy at our local fruiterie asked if I had a cold …
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Over on FlowTV, in which I consider the formatted characteristics of television: http://flowtv.org/2012/01/formatted-to-fit-your-screen/.
Friday was an all-day event around #occupy organized by Media@McGill. You’ll get the full report on the M@M website, no doubt. But for me, some of the highlights: 1. The degree to which the event wasn’t just academic spectatorship of social change. Local Occupy Montreal activists showed up and participated in the workshops. The evening …
Me [returning 1968 issue of Time Magazine]: this is really delicate. Are you sure you want me to put in the returns chute? Library employee: Yeah, put it in and don’t worry about it. We’ve got that in digital and microfilm format. I had originally gone to the issue because the digital version lacked some …
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I had occasion to read the October 4th, 1968 issue of TIME magazine (Canada edition!) cover to cover last night.* There is something magical about reading periodicals from another era, where what we experience as history is rendered as quotidian life, and you get a glimpse of how your own moment, as it is rendered …
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