Archive for March 2012 | Monthly archive page
I was re-reading some of my older writing recently in preparation for an art workshop at UCBerkeley this week and found this old recording of me reading my creative nonfiction story Pose [pdf download]. How odd it sounds to me to hear my voice. Like it’s me, but not me. As I listen I hear [...]
Ballet tonite… @ Orange County Performing Arts Center http://t.co/p9BYN6RO # My #dayofdh closes with a contractor helping me to set up LDAP for our campus' WordPress Multisite installs. #callingitanightnow # How to charm me: bring over a can of WD-40 on a night when my knee joint is feeling particularly stiff. #lifeofacyborg #dayofdh #lubeftw # [...]
I will confess, I haven’t listened to Regina Spektor in a long long time, having removed her from my playlists over a year ago (the songs reminded me too much of my ex, and I had one spectacularly awful breakdown-moment when “Samson” came on while I was on a date–egads, I didn’t need that reminder). [...]
Because I’m such a fan of Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map, I chose to download another book by him that Amazon recommended, called Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Usually I avoid books like that that sound like the latest evolutionary-biology-turned-pop-psychology type of text. But based on my enjoyment of his [...]
As a digital humanist, I wear many hats… (along with glasses and backpacks and papers and prosthetics and surfboards and friends and hospital gowns and nametags and progeny and flowers in my hair…)
This is a ‘classic’ post that seemed worth revisiting for the “Day of DH,” while I’m contemplating my own identity as a cyborg and the price I pay for that luxury. Sometimes I make jokes about being a “bionic woman” or a “cyborg.” Having a prosthetic leg with a computer-controlled knee joint lends itself to [...]
In a career trajectory that’s probably peculiar to my skillset as a Digital Humanist, I moved directly from being a graduate student to serving as a university administrator (I’m the Associate Director for the Office of Academic Technology & Digital Media at a private university in southern California). That transition resulted in a pretty steep [...]
Tomorrow I’ll be particpating in the “Day of DH,” an annual event sponsored by CenterNet where Digital Humanists write/blog/tweet about what they do. Thus, I’ll be tweeting my daily schedule as well as publishing some posts here about my life straddling the digital and the academic, as well as balancing that with various other demands [...]
I’ve long been fascinated with the subterranean and love the feeling of descending deep under a city for a subway ride (in fact, when I was younger my all-time favorite amusement park ride simulated an underground mine–that one rocked). Were it not for my deep-abiding fear of rats, I would probably spend a lot more [...]
His & Hers :) http://t.co/PeOIWoIg # Gonna try this recipe this weekend (fresh berries, yum!). Who wants to join me? http://t.co/ppNNJPNE # Two necessary 'Digital Humanities' skills: writing Project Requirements & User Documentation #thingsIdidntlearningradschool # Eating my breakfast on the roof & watching the sun rise @ Memorial Hall, Chapman University http://t.co/WwLtgwzE # Dinner is [...]
I think I’m gonna get kinda mushy in this post. But it’s so pretty outside today, I think I’ve lost my head a bit… The longer days and the recent daylight-saving time switch mean that I’m getting home at night while it’s still light outside. Such a huge difference that makes in how weary I [...]
RT @dancohen @pomeranian99: DIY ebooks today = blogging in 2002. @carlzimmer nails it in this interview: http://t.co/7y2Zb8tK # Latte-ing with @taojunky @ Chapman Coffee House http://t.co/T26mJ8tN # Celebrating the Freedom Tree (by sitting under its branches) @ Veterans Memorial of Orange http://t.co/JkCcyxb1 # http://t.co/qT1TbBvr # Awww, GameBoy just made me a tuna-pickle sandwich for lunch. [...]
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