squish: how does your garden grow is, in part, Salmon's take on her lecture for ENV321Y. It was so cool.
Comments (0)Bought a copy of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. I've never read it. Ya, don't hit me. But since I'm writing a review on cryptomimesis, and the author refers to it so much, I figure I'd better read it. And I'm looking for another cool book she relies heavily on, which I've not read... Abraham and Torok, i think, but my spelling may be off, and the cryptomimesis is in my office. It is worth getting even if it is just for the review.
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This is a picture of Amoxicillin. Which our cat, Neko, is now on for her bacterial infection.
News for all of you who care. Neko is not, at the moment dying of cancer, as the first vet said. She has a massive bacterial infection. I'm off to get special antibiotics. We were suspicious when online searches said that that cats with liver cancer stop eating. And she's eating 3-4x what she normally would eat. Thanks JOEL for driving us over to the appointment last friday. I'm off across town to get the drugs.
Comments (0)jasonnolan.com expires today. I've been waiting a year or so for it to come due. I was sort of pissed off that nothings been ever done with the site and most of the links don't work, and there's no content.
But I don't know if I really care any more. $25.49 could buy a killer bottle of wine, or two movie tickets to see Amelie, or some cat food.
Comments (0)Cyborg Manifesto is a recommeded reading for Katherine Parrish's lecture, and the final exam....
Comments (0)Hardware Background Screens are up, and very pretty.
Kenny and I went to Active surplus last week. He bought stuff, and I took pictures. His partner allows him to bring stuff home, and mine
The Globe and Mail: Saltspring idea gains currency
Saltspring Island is printing its own paper currency in an attempt to raise money for environmentally friendly buses on the idyllic Gulf Island of 10,000 residents.
Templates are back... Thanks for finding it out Sarah. Sarah and I bitched on Blogger, and she emailed evan.. Somehow, on an upgrade, all the templates got deleted. Don't know how, but they're back/
Comments (0)Catspaw/Kat had a rude celtic awakening this smorning, "That's when I remember: Saint Patricks Day. Ahhh, this would explain all the people in bright green. (I'm not very observant when I'm tired). And then I start noticing the people more closely: little yelling kids, old people drunk by 10 am. This holiday has just ranked on my "Catspaw's Hated Holiday" list along with Secretaries Day and Be Nice To People Day. More busloads of people keep arriving. Some wearing green t-shirts and some dressed, head to tail, in Americanized leprochaun gear. All right below me."
Yes, it is "you can all be Irish for a day" day. Not quite as famous as "let's be WASPs for a day" or "let's be Iranian for a day" or "let's be Mexicans for a day" or ... you get the picture. And there's something wrong with it. Join the team Kat.
Comments (0)Catspaw, on ICQ said, "I had a dream last night that Achieve (which was represented as an apartment building) was burning to the ground, and we were trying to pull $things and $rooms out of it as quickly as possible so that they wouldn't burn, when suddenly we figured out it wasn't a real fire - it was that someone had left a program running too long and it caught fire."
Jason said nothing....
E2K: a journal for the new literary paradigm has it's March edition up. I'm editor at large there, but didn't do anything for this month... Hope you'll check it out.
Comments (0)Hardware Background Screens for free download.
Kenny and I went to Active surplus. He bought stuff, and I took pictures. His partner allows him to bring stuff home, and mine doesn't. All images are © 2002 Jason Nolan @ jasonnolan.net. Please don't download or look at kenny's picture at all. It might scare him. All other images are available for you to use personally as a background screen.
Just another reason why a) maureeen should blog more, and b) why I should read it more often.
re-creating In this state of mind m more than usually receptive to Ursula Franklis talk about silence as a common good and as something other than merely absence of sound. I like her characterizing silence as an enabling environment. Among the things it enables is the possibility of discovering and attending to ons own thoughts. Is interesting, too, to think of it as a kind of space, an opening for what Franklin calls "the unprogrammed and the unprogrammable not a bad description of what I hope to encounter when writing a poem.
At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged. Thus Steve's not returning my email these days.
Comments (0)I'm an invited participant for the Round Table Series: On Technology: Shared Learning Objects. I don't have to present. I'm just expected to be there and look pretty, and say something nice. Sort of what I'm doing for John Willinsky tomorrow, when he presents as part of the Technology in Support of Learning and Teaching lecture series for KMDI.
Wheee....
Comments (0)Really rocking on pollenation today. Tripped over TS Eliot references.
Comments (0)For those of us who missed the theatre showing, Cyberman -- about our most
wearable cyborg, Steve Mann -- is on CBC The Nature of Things this Tuesday
at 8PM. Now, if Steve is watching the show and broadcasting it onto the
web, does this mean he violates CBC copyright?
Welcome to the iTunes Newton Plug-in Pages. Yes, screw the iPod, resurrect the Newton!
Comments (0)International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments now has a home page... why do you care? Cause I'm one of the editors.
Comments (0)City of Palo Alto - Accessibility Guidelines is a neat article that Mia Quint of RCAT sent me. It relates to the hegemony of ascii, a chapter I just finished for Peter's book...
Comments (0)Got the second letter. No invitation for an interview for the Technology position at OISE/UT.
Enough said.
Tracy Ross, a wonderful ex-TA who taught me to let TA's lecture in ENV321Y, used me as a reference for a job application. It seems as if she got it, and here's the film to prove it. Cute. Thanks!
Comments (0)Finding me more boring than usual? Just a reminder that all my cool stuff is getting dumped at pollenation. That and I'm co-authoring a paper with Prof. Steve Mann. Be scared for us both.
Comments (0)Fuzzy Blogic :: The Journal of Jacob Shwirtz:# 25 on Daypop. Jeez. Never thought that would happen. Always been more of a Blogdex man myself.
Pretty ironic that the specific blog where I blog about bloggers blogging about blogging gets blogged by bloggers blogging about blogging and is what gets me into blogdex and daypop.
To which I say...
It should scare you? What scares me is that the first thing everyone does to a fairly non-hierarchical publishing environment (blogs) is to start generating hierarchies. With media profile folks in the centre. Then they run the agenda on the meta-topics of ego-inflating intertextuality and whatever else meets the cool quotent. What am I saying? This happens with any media. In fact, I that's probably the purpose of new media... to let a new group float to the top... oh, never mind. Nice colours on your blog. Comments (0)
Wired magazine has a cool article: Have iPod, Will Secretly Bootleg The iPod is perfect for virtual shoplifting. It is designed as a digital music player, but its roomy 5-GB hard drive can be used as portable storage for all kinds of files, even the Macintosh operating system. In fact, it can operate as an external drive, booting up a machine and running applications.
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