“Out With the Trash: On the Future of New Media” in Charles Acland, ed., Residual Media, 16-31. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. It’s right next to another piece by Lisa Parks on high tech trash so you can get a nice double dose. Links to my New York events next week: a seminar in Ethnomusicology …
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I’m old
not really, but older. Awhile back, I posted that we bought a radio to listen to Radio Canada in order to hear more French. The thing is, it’s above our level right now and hard to understand. TV and movies would be better. Anyway, Thursday night as we cooked, Carrie flipped on the English CBC …
Quick Pittsburgh Guide
A friend just asked for our Pgh recommendations. Here is what I came up with, which I thought I’d share in case you ever go there: You’ll have to google the addresses but here were our favorite restos in Pgh: Zarra’s (italian) Taco Loco (tacqueria) El Campusino (mexican) The thai place on Forbes in Squirrel …
Link
…a long and moving post about the job market. Perhaps more cynical than I’d be, but I suspect it’s a difference of discipline.
Ten Things that happened or that I learned on our 8-day trip to Seattle
1. I wrote a sentence in my book about how depending on what country you’re in, you get a totally different view of the psychoacoustic research leading up to mp3 coding (though the concepts — masking, critical bands, etc., are all the same). Then Lucent (the fools who closed Bell Labs) won a suit against …
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Weird
There used to be a whole post here about my Carbondale trip. Now there isn’t. Hmmm. I’m off to Seattle for 8 days tomorrow, but I hope to get to post my photo essay about the anechoic chamber. We’ll see.
d’oh!
As I went through security today at the Montreal airport, the guy ahead of me was trying to import a lava lamp into the U.S. Which is absurd on at least two counts: 1. It is a sealed chamber containing an unidentified clear liquid. Which is exactly what every public service announcement and newscaster has …