One of my goals for this year was some serious introspection so as to return to my Montreal life with a clearer head. I am not sure if I have simply not done enough of it, or if it’s simply a matter of being outside of my normal “zone” and having epiphanies now and then. …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Version Control
Here’s a question for any book writers hanging out on this blog (feel free to email if you don’t want to post). I’ve got a versioning issue. The mp3 book is made up of several long chapters. In two cases, which I’m presently about to deal with, I’ve provided condensed, edited, shortened versions for others’ …
Srsly wtf
It’s a weird stage of life when one hopes for blood tests to return a result indicating that something is wrong. Well, nothing’s wrong. I don’t have any detectable tumor marker — which is awesome. My thyroid hormones are right where they should be, which also should be awesome. Except I don’t feel awesome. And …
Blood!
It wasn’t my first encounter with the US healthcare system since moving to Canada but it was instructive. It’s time for my various thyroid-related blood tests. I have my orders from my doctor in Montreal. I need to pay out of pocket, at least at first (I can petition Quebec to cover the costs but …
Digital Humanities Position at McGill
I’ve forwarded this announcement to a few listservs. I’m not on the search committee (I’m on sabbatical!) and the hire won’t necessarily even be in my department, but I have a “rooting interest” in the position, so I post it here just in case the blog has readers that haven’t seen the announcement. For people …
The World Soundscape Project
A week ago today, I visited the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser to talk with Barry Truax and his students. For those who read this blog and know me in some other way than as a sound scholar, The WSP and the group of people involved with it — R. Murray Schafer, Barry Truax, …