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Insignificant Wranglings
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Baby Photos Have a New Home
I finally have a justification for my Flickr account. Baby pictures will be going there from now on. Rowan has been sleeping at night, and Gramma and Grampa have been a great help. Meg and I feel pretty good (and … Continue reading
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Week One, Thursday
1. Collect writing samples 2. Intro lecture: what is rhetoric? hard to define, persuasion more than that, rhetoric is social glue– social conception of knowledge and knowledge exchange art of negotiating language in the act of negotiation Kenneth Burke: resolving … Continue reading
106: Week One
If you are looking for baby photos, then you should scroll down to the previous post. If you are looking to pass English 106, then you should scroll down to the baby photos, sufficiently oooh and aaah, and then scoll … Continue reading
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All Hail the Queen
At 7:39, Monday August 20th, Meg gave birth to Rowan Margaret. Words are insufficient. First, some pics from about 10 minutes after she was born: Next, some pics from late Tuesday morning (15 hours old). Up first, a stunning shot … Continue reading
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Work in Progress
Meg’s water broke at 9:00 last night, right after a spirited boxing match and a few team efforts at Wii tennis. We’ve been at the hospital since 10:00 this morning, and her labor started getting intense about twenty minutes ago. … Continue reading
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Rosa & Acceleration
(I thought I might share some recent reading notes for my dissertation, I think there’s something in here for everyone. Please excuse the awkwardness of the prose, this is first draft. Overall, Rosa’s article is insightful and definately worth a … Continue reading
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Rapid Fire Thoughts
I’m sitting in one of Purdue’s undergrad computer labs to work on my teaching portfolio (the draft of which is below–I’m going to play around with that Dali-esque scheme). The reason I’m using a gen-pop lab: the new Adobe Creative … Continue reading
Content v. Copy
Here’s one of the problems that comes with creating a syllabus. You carefully arrange each reading and budget out your (and your students’) time. Then, checking up on your RSS feeds, you come across an article far better than most … Continue reading
Time for a Change
Since just about every person I know has some distaste for this blog and my homepage’s design, I’ve decided its time for a redesign before I hit the job market. The problem: I have no inspiration. None. This is a … Continue reading
So Crazy it has to be True
Sigh. Just when I thought intellectual property issues couldn’t get worse, this story passes through /. the other day. As reported, media broadcasters want you to pay to port media to different devices. This might not sound like a big … Continue reading