Archive for October, 2007
Went to see Sarah Vowell last night. It was great. If you like her audiobooks you would like her live as well. She said she’d looked over her writing of the past few years and discovered that she was accidentally producing a history of America, but jumbly and out of order. So this reading [ READ MORE ]
I saw this optical illusion on kottke today. I’ve seen it before, but this time the accompanying article claims that the direction you perceive the figure to be spinning indicates whether you are “left-brained” or “right-brained”. On first glance, then, I’m right-brained, because the figure is spinning clockwise. The article notes that most people can trick [ READ MORE ]
So yesterday I taught a 1.5 hour workshop on wikis to 18 University of Iowa faculty members. It was terrifying and exhausting, and it was very difficult to tell if anything I said made it through to anyone. In short: it was like teaching. I got a couple of laughs, at least. I’ve never taught a workshop [ READ MORE ]