So two of the interviews I gave appeared in print, and the gun quote appeared in both. Which makes me think in some small way it was worthwhile. I’ve reproduced the Montreal Gazette piece below. You can read the Hour piece here. There’s only one obvious problem with the Hour piece: never in my life …
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have been underused on this blog. From here on out, following the del.icio.us model, they will be overused. I just tagged up the front page in like 1 minute. Now I’m off to breakfast.
Atheistic Drinks at Lunch on Campus
So I was speaking on the phone with a friend last night who has just moved from Canada to take an academic job in the U.S. So I did to her what all the Canadians did to me when we arrived here. “So? What’s it like? What are the differences? Have you considered starting a …
“Everything by Rage Against the Machine”
was the title of an essay I never wrote about Clear Channel’s banned songs list after 9/11/2001. That phrase appeared in a list of songs that were not to be played on Clear Channel stations. Rage was the only band to be completely banned. Though I imagine there wasn’t a lot of Jefferson Airplane or …
Bluetile Lounge–Half Cut
just came on over the headphones as I was writing that post. I listened before and it didn’t do a lot but it’s just perfect right now. Very mellow. Very 90s.
A Few Words on Apple and Fiction
Blogsurfing led me to a post by “HCI User Advocate” about his private hell in switching from Windows to Mac. Then today I learned that you can finally buy microphone attachments for 5th generation iPods. Time for an entry about Apple. When the battery died on my old 3rd generation model, I went ahead and …
Satisfaction
–A good seminar. I taught a formalist text, old school humanities style. Lots of student participation and good conversation. –Drink with students after class at Thomson House. I love Thomson House. It’s so much cooler than the faculty club. –Burrito Nite ][. We tend to make a big batch of something on Sunday so it …