3-D Game & a Couple of Sunday Morning Links
Strangely compelling online game in which you use the mouse to rotate the picture space until the seemingly random elements coalesce into the icon at the upper right. There may be a deep metaphor here . . . or not. [Via Work / Space, where there is also a link to a discussion of plagiarism [...]
Pretty Quiet Around Here: Reasons for Not Blogging
Seems like I haven’t had much worth reporting on the blog recently. I’ll read something & think, “I should blog that,” but then never get around to it. It’s not that I’ve been terribly busy — some work around the house & getting ready for the semester, but nothing overwhelming. Maybe the prolonged rainy weather [...]
BMC: Finishing Up
I’ve been circumspect blogging about BMC — I don’t want to have the sense that I’m invading anyone’s privacy, while at the same time wanting to give some impression of my time here. (I have in fact password protected one post that seemed overly personal.) Now that the month is winding down, I’d just like [...]
Heading Out
Tomorrow I’ll be leaving idyllic South Colton for the even more idyllic Blue Mountain Center, a place where artists and writers spend a month working free from the distractions of . . . What? Exactly? Well, anyway, we call it work so our spouses will let us go. What was that old New Yorker cartoon? [...]
Spam Is Getting Smarter
Some spam bot left the following comment, flagged because I have the software set to send first-time comments to moderation:
i want an original copy of richard cory’s “stopping by woods on a snowy evening..though i qiuet admire you’re comment about this comment..i admit i’ve learned a lot from this poem..God bless!
Either that, or it’s auto-Flarf! [...]
Light Blogging Here / Heavy Blogging with Students
I’m spending quite a bit of time blogging with my students, which means that I am not often moved to crack open the WordPress editing window and write anything here. I use blogs with students for a number of reasons: 1) It’s more efficient that copying handouts for them to read, at least for some [...]
Cold
About 10° below last night. The river is frozen over except for the channel along the far bank where it runs the fastest. Low pearl-colored sky. Only a few chickadees at the bird feeder. Lucky for me, I don’t have to go farther than the post office today & not until afternoon. Friday is my [...]
Whew!
The first week of the semester certainly knocked the wind out of my Bach blogging. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to resume in the next day or two. I’ve met all three of my classes & each seems fine in its own way. I’m doing three preps for the first time in twenty years [...]
Search Phrases
Looking at the search phrases that brought viewers — I won’t say readers — to one’s blog, little stories suggest themselves. This one, for instance:
Poem Analysis of “dead boy”
The grammar belies a certain — how shall we say? — lack of sophistication that makes one think of a desperate high school student who has been [...]
Jr. High Politics
When I was in junior high school in the sixties, you had to be a fan of The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, or The Beach Boys (this was southern California). Call it an early form of identity politics — it was pretty severe. You had to dress like your chosen group, wear your hair like [...]
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